ISLAMABAD, Sep 17 (APP): Election Commission of Pakistan
(ECP) has directed the members of the parliament and provincial
assemblies to submit yearly statements of assets and liabilities
of their own, spouses and dependents by September 30.
According to an ECP statement, defaulters would be suspended
from respective seats of assemblies as it was a mandatory requirement
under Section 42A of the Representation of the People Act, 1976 and
Section 25A of the Senate (Election) Act, 1975.
It said that the members of the Senate, National Assembly
and provincial assemblies of the Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
and Balochistan had been asked to submit with the Election
Commission Secretariat yearly statements of assets and liabilities
of their own, their spouses and dependents duly signed on each
page of the form by September 30, 2017.
It said that the prescribed forms were available, free of
cost, from the Election Commission Secretariat, Islamabad and
offices of Provincial Election Commissioners in each province.
It added forms had already been sent to the Senate
Secretariat, National Assembly Secretariat and secretariats of
all the four provincial assemblies for facility of
parliamentarians.
The Commission said that the prescribed forms could also be
downloaded from the ECP’s website: www.ecp.gov.pk.
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