As many as seven members of the federal cabinet of Pakistan are among the lawmakers to have been issued notices to explain material discrepancy in their statements of assets and liabilities for the current financial year.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), which is currently carrying out audit of the statements of assets and liabilities of lawmakers, had started the exercise from members of the National Assembly.
The ECP has cleared 132 out of the total 342 members of the National Assembly (MNAs), while cases of 69 lawmakers are under process, and 50 will be scrutinised later.
Out of the 91 lawmakers issued notices, replies have been received so far from just 17, including ministers Ghulam Sarwar Khan, Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad, Faisal Vawda, and Omar Ayub Khan.
Defence Minister Pervez Khattak, Minister for Defence Production Zubeida Jalal, and Minister of State for Revenue Hammad Azhar have not responded to the ECP.
Other legislators who have responded to the notices include Saleem Rehman, Mohamed Nawaz Khan, Amir Haider Azam Khan, Mohamed Iqbal Khan, retired Major Tahir Sadiq, Mansoor Hayat Khan, Ehsanullah Tiwana, Raja Riaz Ahmad, Junaid Anwar Chaudhry, Syed Murtaza Mohamed, Aftab Shabaan Mirani, Abdul Shakoor Shad, and Shahzain Bugti.
Among those who are yet to respond are former National Assembly speaker Syed Fakhar Imam, Zain Hussain Qureshi (son of Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi), former leader of the opposition Khursheed Ahmad Shah, National Assembly Deputy Speaker Qasim Khan Suri, Imran Khattak, Khawaja Saad Rafiq, Maulana Akbar Chitrali, Saleh Mohamed, Noor Alam Khan, and former defence minister Khurram Dastgir Khan.
Other lawmakers issued notices include Ali Haider Khan, Ali Khan Jadoon, Anwar Taj, Noor Alam Khan, Arbab Amir Ayub, Zahid Akram Durrani, Zulfikar Ali Khan, Farrukh Altaf, Mehnaz Akbar Aziz, Mehmood Basheer Virk, Usman Ibrahim, Zulfiqar Ahmad, Imtiaz Chaudhry, Qaiser Ahmed Sheikh, Asim Nazir, Faizullah, Ijaz Ahmad Shah, Javed Latif, Ali Pervez, Malik Karamat Ali, Mohamed Afzal, Ajmal Khan, Moeen Wattoo, Ahmad Raza Maneka, Iradat Sharif Khan, Iftikhar Nazir, Ibrahim Khan, Mohamed Shafiq, Abdul Ghaffar Wattoo, Alam Dad Laleka, Mobeen Ahmad, Mustafa Mehmud, Aamir Talal Khan, Abdul Majeed Khan, Khawaja Sheeraz Mehmood, Khalid Ahmad Lund, Ehsanur Rahman Mazari, Javed Ali Shah, Ali Nawaz Shah, Noor Mohamed Shah Jillani, Mir Ghulam Ali Talpur, Sikandar Ali Rahoupoto, Abdul Karim Bijar, Aslam Khan, Najeeb Haroon, Mohamed Hashim, and Jai Parakash.
Women lawmakers who have not responded to the Election Commission notices are Hina Rabbani Khar, Mehreen Razzaq Bhutto, Kanwal Shauzab, Shaista Pervaiz, Samina Matloob, Aliya Hamza Malik, Shamim Ara Panhwar, Nusrat Wahid, Saira Bano, Shahnaz Naseer Baloch, and Munawara Bibi Baloch.
