Faryal says she won’t be PM

Published May 16, 2008

LARKANA, May 15: Former Nawabshah nazim and sister of Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman, Ms Faryal Talpur, who had filed nomination papers for NA-207, dismissed impression on Thursday that she aspired to be prime minister.

Talking to journalists after addressing a meeting of Bhutto community here Ms Talpur said that NA-207, the seat, which fell vacant after the assassination of Pakistan People’s Party leader Ms Benazir Bhutto, belonged to Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.

To a question that local party leaders were trying to ensure she won the seat uncontested, she said that she was obviously optimistic about her win bit it was premature to say as the things would clear up only after June 2, the withdrawal date.

She said that she would reside in Naudero with the children of Ms Benazir Bhutto whenever they visited their ancestral home. She vowed to serve people of Larkana who she said had been ignored for 11 years and left at the mercy of ‘waderas’.

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