KARACHI: Faryal Talpur, Sister of Pakistan Peoples Party Co Chairman AsifAli Zardari is in hot waters as Sindh High Court has opened an oldcorruption allegations application against her.
The Sindh High Court(SHC) on Wednesday issued notices to Faryal Talpur,sister of former President Asif Ali Zardari, in corruption case of Rs90billion while restoring an old application against the PPP woman leader.
An applicant had filed an application alleging that Faryal Talpur, AyazSoomro and others had done a corruption of Rs90 billion in differentprojects of Larkana.
The applicant submitted before the court that he had taken back hisapplication after threats to his family and now when he has shifted hisfamily to a safe place his application should be restored in publicinterest.
The court while restoring application directed Faryal Talpur, Ayaz Soomro,Shafqat Soomro and Chief Secretary to submit reply in the case by February22.
Faryal Talpur begun her political career in 1990s. She ran for the seat ofNational Assembly of Pakistan on Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) ticket fromNawabshah constituency (NA-160) in Pakistani general election, 1997 for thefirst time, but lost the electionto the Pakistan Muslim League (N).
In 2001, she became the Nazim of district Nawabshah in local governmentelections. In 2005 local government elections, she was re-elected as themayor of Nawabshah.
After the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in 2007, she became legalguardian of children of Bhutto; Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Bakhtawar BhuttoZardari and Aseefa Bhutto Zardari and custodian of property of Bhutto inLarkana.
In 2007, Talpur was considered to become a candidate of PPP for the post ofPresident of Pakistan.
Due to mayor ship of Nawabshah, she was not given a ticket by PPP to run inPakistani general election, 2008. However later in by-elections, she wasallotted a ticket by PPP to run for the seat of National Assembly homeconstituency of Bhutto in constituency NA-207(Larkana-cum-Shikarpur-cum-Kambar Shehdadkot where election was postponeddue to death of Bhutto. She won in the by-elections and became member ofthe National Assembly for the first time.
She was the central president of the women wing of PPP but reportedly shelooked after almost all affairs of the PPP.
According to a WikiLeaks diplomatic cables leak in 2009, fearing attemptson his life, then President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari told then USAmbassador to Pakistan Anne W. Patterson that in the event he wasassassinated, he had instructed his son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari to appointTalpur as President of Pakistan.