ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has asked the parliamentarians to file their yearly statements of assets and liabilities by December 31.

According to an ECP official, the commission had asked the members of parliament and provincial assemblies to submit their yearly statements of assets and liabilities by due date, including spouses and dependent children, as on the preceding 30th day of June on Form B.

He said it was a mandatory requirement under Section 137 of the Elections Act, 2017, under which the members of the Senate, National Assembly and provincial assemblies of the Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan were required to submit with the Election Commission Secretariat yearly statements of assets and liabilities, including those of their spouses and dependent children.

He said the prescribed forms were available, free of cost, from the Election Commission Secretariat, Islamabad and offices of provincial election commissioners in each province.

Forms had already been sent to the Senate Secretariat, National Assembly Secretariat and secretariats of all the four provincial assemblies to facilitate the members, he added.

He said prescribed forms could also be downloaded from the ECP’s website www.ecp.gov.pk.

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