ECP restores membership of 29 lawmakers
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ISLAMABAD: Out of 261 dangling parliamentarians, a Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday easy a membership of 29 after they submitted their statements of resources and liabilities to a electoral watchdog.
The ECP has easy a membership of dual senators, 9 members of a National Assembly, 8 members of a Punjab Assembly, dual members of a Sindh Assembly, 4 members of a Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Assembly and 4 members of a Balochistan Assembly, according to an ECP official.
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He pronounced that progressing a ECP had dangling a membership of these parliamentarians for not submitting their yearly statements of resources and liabilities of their own, their spouses and dependents.
He pronounced currently there were a sum of 1,174 parliamentarians, that enclosed 104 Senators, 342 MNAs, 371 MPAs from Punjab, 168 MPAs from Sindh, 124 MPAs from K-P and 65 MPAs from Balochistan.
He pronounced still 8 seats were fibbing empty in a Senate, inhabitant and provincial assemblies.
He pronounced this was a imperative requirement underneath Section 42A of a Representation of a People Act, 1976 and Section 25A of a Senate (Election) Act, 1975, that those parliamentarians, who destroy to contention yearly statements of resources and liabilities, would be dangling from particular seats of Senate or inhabitant or provincial assemblies. APP
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