Zubair Qureshi
The Election Commission of Pakistan has drawn the attention of the Members of the Parliament Senate, National and Provincial Assemblies to submit to the Election Commission by Dec 31 their yearly statements of assets and liabilities including their spouse and dependent children as on the preceding thirtieth day of June on Form-B being a mandatory requirement.
Every Member of an Assembly and Senate shall submit to the Commission, on or before 31st December each year, a copy of statement of assets and liabilities including assets and liabilities of his spouse and dependent children as on the preceding thirtieth day of June on Form B.
According to the ECP rules, the commission, on the first day of January each year through a press release, shall publish the names of Members who failed to submit the requisite statement of assets and liabilities within the period specified under sub-section (1).
The commission shall, on the sixteenth day of January, by an order suspend the membership of a Member of an Assembly and Senate who fails to submit the statement of assets and liabilities by the fifteenth day of January and such Member shall cease to function till he files the statement of assets and liabilities.
Where a Member submits the statement of assets and liabilities under this section which is found to be false in material particulars, he may, within one hundred and twenty days from the date submission of the statement, be proceeded against for committing the offence of corrupt practice, the ECP rules further state.
The prescribed form along with instructions/guidelines prepared in this regard can be obtained free of cost from the Election Commission Secretariat, Islamabad, offices of Provincial Election Commissioners in each Province, Senate Secretariat, National Assembly Secretariat and Secretariats of Provincial Assemblies.
Moreover, form can also be downloaded from the ECP’s Website i.e. www.ecp.gov.pk, the ECP statement further says.
