ECP dismisses disqualification plea against Faryal Talpur

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday rejected the disqualification plea against Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader and former president Asif Ali Zaradi’s sister Faryal Talpur. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) lawmakers of the Sindh Assembly Arsalan Taj and Rabia Azfar had appealed the ECP against Talpur, accusing her of hiding assets. However, the electoral watchdog has dismissed the plea declaring Talpur eligible to hold office. Read ECP summons Imran, PTI leaders in contempt case The ECP had reserved its judgment on October 27 after arguments were completed on the matter. In its judgment, the commission stated that “concrete evidence” is required for the disqualification of assembly members which the ECP deemed to be lacking in the case. “PTI failed to present concrete evidence against Faryal Talpur,” the judgment declared. The PPP politician had been indicted by an accountability court in Islamabad alongside Zardari and other accused in the mega-money laundering reference pertaining to the fake accounts case in 2020. The former president, Faryal and several of their business associates were at the time being probed as part of a 2015 case regarding fake accounts and fictitious transactions — which were initially found to have totalled Rs35 billion — conducted through 29 ‘benami’ accounts. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had also issued arrest warrants for former president Asif Ali Zardari over suspicious transactions worth Rs8 billion in the fake accounts case. Then chairman NAB Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal had particularly faced staunch criticism for issuing arrest warrants to the woman politician.

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