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| 09 January 2004 | Friday | 16 Ziqa'ad 1424 |
MPs filing wrong details may face scrutiny: EC
ISLAMABAD, Jan 8: The Election Commission of Pakistan may send the cases of those legislators who had submitted wrong statements of assets and liabilities, to an investigation agency for scrutiny.
Commission Secretary Hasan Mohammad told a press conference here on Thursday that notices had been issued to many parliamentarians who had not filed complete details of their assets and liabilities as required under the law.
He said that after receiving response from these lawmakers, the commission would take appropriate action against them and might send their cases to an investigation agency.
Asked if the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) could be the investigation agency, the EC official responded that he would not rule out sending their cases to the NAB.
Asked why the commission took no action against Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali who did not submit the details of his assets, the official said the statement of his assets and liabilities had been published in a separate gazette which could be obtained.
The prime minister has recently stated that there is no change in his assets' details which he had submitted one year ago with his nomination papers. According to the gazette, the premier possesses Rs2.7 million assets, Rs2 million agricultural land and Rs600,000 jewellry.
The official said the EC had not received any reference against any elected member for defection. The secretary said the Senate chief, National and provincial assemblies' speakers had to send references to the Election Commission for disqualification of any member according to the rules and regulation.
But so far, the commission had not received any reference, he said. The secretary said that if any reference was filed against any parliamentarian, the commission would decide it according to the rules and regulations.
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