ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari’s sisters, Dr Azra Fazal Pechuhu and Faryal Talpur have been asked to seek election win in the Sindh Assembly.
A local media outlet reported PPP Secretary General Farhatullah Babar confirmed that the two sisters will not be in the run for any National Assembly seat this time.
Dr Azra Fazal became a member of the National Assembly for the first time in 2002 from Nawabshah (now Shaheed Benazirabad) whereas her sister Faryal Talpur became an MNA for the first time when she won the seat from Larkana during a by-election. The by-election was held due to the assassination of PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto in December 2007.
It was further reported that Talpur expressed the desire to contest a provincial assembly seat as she would like to focus on part affairs in Sindh. Similar was the case with Fazal who was reluctant to run for the NA seat despite being wanted to contest for the NA seat by the party members.
Furthermore, Asif Zardari will be contesting on the seat from Shaheed Benazirabad.
BILAWAL FILES NOMINATION PAPERS FOR LARKANA:
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari submitted his nomination form for NA-200 Larkana-I in the city on the last day of forms submission date. He was accompanied by his younger sister Aseefa Bhutto Zardari, former federal law minister Farooq H Naik, Khursheed Shah, Nisar Ahmed Khuhro and other party leaders.
According to further reports, the party is planning to field Aseefa Bhutto-Zardari on a National Assembly seat from Qambar-Shahdadkot. Both Bilawal and Aseefa will be contesting for the first time.
Bilawal after submitting his nomination form visited various roads of Larkana where he was received by the area residents and activists, who showered rose petals on his vehicle. They were chanting slogans of prime minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.
Later, he left for Garhi Khuda Bux where he addressed a press conference. Bilawal said that he had filed nomination papers for Malakand, Lyari in Karachi and Larkana. He said it had proved that PPP candidates were contesting upcoming general elections all over Pakistan. He said he wanted to take vision of martyred Bhutto leaders forward which was the vision of democratic Pakistan where economic justice would prevail. He said PPP was the only party which could make Pakistan a progressive country. He appealed to the people of Pakistan to support him in making the country progressive and developing.
In reply to a question, Bilawal claimed that PPP would form the next government. To another question, he said all were saying that elections would be held on time and for this purpose, they had already given their stance in a press conference in Karachi that PPP wanted free and fair elections on time. He said the court would decide the case of Nawaz Sharif and all were awaiting it. Bilawal said: “We have won elections from KP to Sindh before and have also received so many applications for all constituencies now.
Separately, Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal’s (MMA) provincial chief Maulana Rashid Mahmood Soomro also submitted his nomination form for NA-200. He too arrived with a large number of his party’s workers and supporters of Larkana Awami Ittehad.
