Staff Reporter
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday dismissed plea seeking disqualification of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leaders Faryal Talpur, Manzoor Wassan, Sohail Anwar Siyal and Nasir Shah in a case related to holding work permit (Iqama). A petition had been filed in the Sindh High Court against the key PPP leaders Faryal Talpur, Manzoor Wasan, Nasir Hussain Shah, Sohail Anwar Siyal and others for allegedly holding work permits of a foreign country and not disclosing it in their nomination papers for elections. The Sindh High Court had sought concluding arguments on identical petitions regarding disqualifications of the PPP leaders Faryal Talpur, and others for allegedly holding Iqamas (work permits) of certain countries till January 14. In prior hearing, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had submitted a one-page reply which the court had refused it and expressed its annoyance and argued that there was nothing in the short reply. The court directed the ECP to submit a detailed response instead of a one-page reply. During hearing of the case, the bench remarked that lack of interests of the plaintiffs have proven that how interested are they in the matter. In another case, SHC issued notices to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), PPP MPA Sharjeel Inam Memon and others on a petition seeking disqualification of Memon for concealing his assets and properties before the ECP. Petitioner Iqbal Kazmi submitted that Memon, who has also earlier served as the provincial information minister, had concealed his several properties and assets before the ECP at the time of filing his nomination papers. He alleged that the PPP MPA had concealed his several hundred acres of land, gold and investments before the ECP and his statements filed before the ECP from 2013 to 2017 did not reflect his actual assets. The petitioner requested the SHC to disqualify the PPP MPA for concealing facts of his properties and violating the Article 62 of the constitution.
