The Election Commission of Pakistan has suspended the membership of 271 members of parliament for not submitting their returns. The suspended members cannot participate in the meetings of the National and Provincial Assembly and the Senate, nor participate in the legislation including the vote of confidence.
According to Election Commission sources, 21 members of the Senate and 136 members of the National Assembly have been suspended for not submitting their annual returns, while 48 members of the Sindh Assembly, 54 members of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly and 12 members of the Balochistan Assembly have been suspended.
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The members of the Upper House suspended by the Election Commission include Shaukat Tareen, Abdul Ghafoor Hydari, Ahmed Khan, Azam Swati, Sania Nishtar, and Anwarul Haq Kakar.
Senate members Ahsan Iqbal, Taj Haider, Fawad Chaudhry, Murad Saeed, Zartaj Gul, Tariq Bashir Cheema, Naveed Qamar, Asad Umar and Umar Ayub have also been suspended by the Election Commission.
The suspended members of the National Assembly include Asad Qaiser, Noor Alam Khan, Shehryar Afridi, Noorul Haq Qadri, Ghulam Sarwar Khan, Khawaja Asif, Mohsin Ranjha, Fahmida Mirza, Ali Zaidi, Shafqat Mehmood, Kanwal Shozab and Andalib Abbas.
According to the Election Commission, the suspended members will not be able to participate in the meetings of the National and Provincial Assembly and the Senate. Besides, the suspended members cannot participate in the legislation including the vote of confidence.
After the membership suspension, the Election Commission has sent the list of suspended members to the Speakers of the National and Provincial Assemblies and the Chairman of the Senate.