Legal provision: ECP suspends 336 lawmakers
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ISLAMABAD: The ECP has temporarily dangling a membership of 336 lawmakers after they unsuccessful to record their annual item declarations for a prior financial year.
The ECP told a names of 22 senators, 66 members of a National Assembly, 137 members of Punjab Assembly, 49 any of Sindh and K-P assemblies and 13 members of a Balochistan Assembly who had so distant not filed their declarations.
Prominent among those whose membership was dangling enclosed Leader of a Opposition Khursheed Shah, cupboard members Sara Afzal Tarar, Tariq Fazal Chaudhry, Mir Ameenul Hasnaat and Abid Sher Ali.
Leader of a Opposition in a Punjab Assembly Mian Mehmoodul Rasheed is among 137 Punjab Assembly members.
Under a applicable law, all members of council and provincial assemblies are compulsory to contention sum of their resources and liabilities. If they destroy to do so, a ECP can postpone their membership compartment they approve with a authorised provision.
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 16th, 2016.
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