ECP to hear Faryal Talpur’s plea in disqualification case on July 21

ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has fixed a petition for the disqualification of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Faryal Talpur on 21st July.

Faryal Talpur is blamed for concealing her properties in the nominations filed for the 2018 general elections in a petition filed by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Sindh Assembly lawmakers Arsalan Taj and Rabia Azfar.

The petition stated that the PPP leader should be disqualified under Article 62 of the Constitution as she failed to declare details of her assets before the ECP, which means she is no longer ‘Sadiq and Ameen’.

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A five-member bench of the ECP headed by the Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja will hear the petition. The ECP has served notices to both the parties for a hearing on 21st July.

In December 2019, the Election Commission of Pakistan had adjourned the hearing of the petition after the petitioners’ counsel sought time to file a response.

Talpur owned properties in Larkana and Shahdadkot, the petitioner stated. They added Talpur has been nominated in a case pertaining to billions of rupees corruption through fake bank accounts and pleaded that she be disqualified as a member of the Sindh Assembly.