KARACHI: Former president and Co-Chairman Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Asif Ali Zardari and his sister Faryal Talpur have been summoned by Federal Investigative Agency (FIA) today to record their statements in relation to a Rs 35 million money laundering case.
Zardari and Talpur have been summoned by FIA’s commercial banking circle. Prior to this, the FIA had declared former president Zardari and his sister Talpur absconders in the case.
Earlier, on July 12, the Supreme Court of Pakistan ordered the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to summon PPP Co-Chairman, Asif Ali Zardari, and his sister Faryal Talpur in the money-laundering scam after the upcoming general elections.
Before elections, Farooq Naek, senior PPP leader and Zardari’s counsel, appeared before the Supreme Court.
Then the Chief Justice stated that Zardari and Talpur will not be summoned in person before elections and the Court have not any brother-sister duo placed on the Exit Control List (ECL) [as reports had stated earlier].
The two-member bench observed that since Zardari is just a suspect, he could not be placed on the ECL.
