Poll body restores 16 lawmakers’ membership
Election authorities restored membership of 16 lawmakers after they submitted details of their assets.
ISLAMABAD:
A day after suspending the membership of 141 lawmakers, the Election Commission de-notified 16 names of members as they submitted their annual asset records on Tuesday.
In what appeared to be an unusual move, the press information department issued a statement claiming that the suspended membership of Sardar Aseff Ahmed Ali, an elected MNA from NA-140, has been restored on submission of his ‘mistakenly missing’ declaration of assets. The statement also said there was no change in the worth of his declared assets.
ECP officials, on the other hand, said the membership of the minister was not restored yet; however he was amongst the 19 lawmakers whose membership is likely to be restored in a day or two.
Among those whose membership was restored on Tuesday as soon as they filed the details of their assets and liabilities are MNAs Attaur Rehman, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Syed Khursheed Shah and Faqir Muhammad Jadam Mangrio.
Memberships of seven Punjab Assembly, four Sindh Assembly, one Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly has also been restored.
Under an election law every elected member of parliament – National Assembly and Senate, and the four provincial assemblies – is bound to submit the details of her/his own, spouse and dependants’ assets every year by September 30.
The names of those who do not comply with the law should be notified on October 15 and their membership suspended as a penalty. However, their membership is restored the day they submit the statements of their assets.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 20th, 2010.
A day after suspending the membership of 141 lawmakers, the Election Commission de-notified 16 names of members as they submitted their annual asset records on Tuesday.
In what appeared to be an unusual move, the press information department issued a statement claiming that the suspended membership of Sardar Aseff Ahmed Ali, an elected MNA from NA-140, has been restored on submission of his ‘mistakenly missing’ declaration of assets. The statement also said there was no change in the worth of his declared assets.
ECP officials, on the other hand, said the membership of the minister was not restored yet; however he was amongst the 19 lawmakers whose membership is likely to be restored in a day or two.
Among those whose membership was restored on Tuesday as soon as they filed the details of their assets and liabilities are MNAs Attaur Rehman, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Syed Khursheed Shah and Faqir Muhammad Jadam Mangrio.
Memberships of seven Punjab Assembly, four Sindh Assembly, one Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly has also been restored.
Under an election law every elected member of parliament – National Assembly and Senate, and the four provincial assemblies – is bound to submit the details of her/his own, spouse and dependants’ assets every year by September 30.
The names of those who do not comply with the law should be notified on October 15 and their membership suspended as a penalty. However, their membership is restored the day they submit the statements of their assets.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 20th, 2010.