ECP asks parliamentarians to submit assets' statements by Dec 30.

ISLAMABAD -- The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has reminded the members of the parliament and provincial assemblies to submit their yearly statements of assets and liabilities for financial year 2019-20 before December 31st.

According to an official of ECP, under Section 137 of the Elections Act, 2017 every member of an assembly and Senate will submit to the Commission, on or before December 31st 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.

The commission, on the first day of January each year through a press release, will publish the names of members who failed to submit the requisite statement of assets and liabilities within the period specified under sub-section (1).

He said that the Commission will, 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...