Asset issue: Membership of 283 MPs likely to be suspended

ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has decided to suspend membership of 283 parliamentarians who have failed to declare their assets from October 15, Geo News reported.

Sources said out of 1,174 MPs of Senate, National Assembly and provincial assemblies have apprised the ECP about their assets. Howver, Deputy Speaker Faisal Karim Kundi, Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar, Senator Faisal Raza Abidi, Senator Muhammad Azam Hoti, Caption (retd) Muhammad Safdar, Maulana Atta-ur-Rehman, Engineer Ameer Muqam, Abid Sher Ali, Federal Minister Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo, Kashmala Tariq, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, Ali Musa Gilani and Abdul Qadir Gilani( sons of former prime minister Yusuf Raza Gilani), Hamid Saeed Kazmi, Sardar Ovais Laghari and others were given six-day time to submit detail of their assets, or else, after 15 October deadline, their membership would be suspended.