Senate of Pakistan A Gold Mine. The Election Commission of Pakistan on Thursday released details of the gold being owned by members of the Senate with Senator Nawabzada Saifullah Magsi being on top owning 1,100 tolas of gold. According to the ECP, one-fourth of the Senate lawmakers own 6,180 tolas of the precious metal including 25 senators who owned gold worth of up to Rs309 million. Five members of the upper house have 3,350 tolas of gold in their assets. Senator Saifullah Magsi have 1,100 tola gold in his property, whereas Gul Mohammad Laat from Tharparkar in Sindh own 1,000 tola of the metal. Lahore’s Rubina Khalid Ghurki have 500, Azam Hoti 450, Chaudhry Jaffar Iqbal 300 and Senator Raza Rabbani have 220 tolas of the precious metal in their declared assets. The other members of Senate Gold Club included Nuzhat Sadiq (120 tolas), Salim Mandviwala (140 tolas), Kulsoom Parveen (120 tolas), Abbas Afridi (120 tolas), Usman Saifullah (110 tolas). Ten Senators including Chaudhry Shujaat, Mukhtar Ahmed, Farooque H Naik, Saeed Ghani, Almas Parveen, Abdul Nabi Bangash, Baz Mohammad Khan, Akbar Magsi and Amarjeet Malhotra have declared 100 told of gold each in their assets. Meanwhile, the Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) Thursday launched an online public campaign demanding of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to post May 2013 election results related documents on its website. FAFEN, an independent election monitoring organization, said that those documents were fundamental to any objective assessment of the elections and are required for electoral transparency. The ECP forms, according to a press release of FAFEN, contain the records of polling station vote counts, accounting for ballot papers, consolidation of election results, and polling schemes implemented on the elections day. “All of the forms contain information of public importance that must be available to citizens, according to the Constitution and law of Pakistan. The release of these documents is necessary for ECP to fulfill its public commitment and meet legal standards for electoral transparency,” it read. The documents include Form XIV (Statement of the Count) and Form XV (Ballot Paper Account) for all polling stations for all national and provincial assembly constituency elections, as well as Form XVI (Consolidation of Statements of the Count), Form XVII (Result of the Count) and the Polling Scheme exactly as implemented on Election Day for all National and Provincial Assembly constituencies. The ECP is yet to make public these essential documents despite repeated requests by FAFEN and political parties. These forms are fundamental to any objective assessment of General Elections 2013. FAFEN says the public release of all key documents is required in order to address the questions being raised about the quality and transparency of general elections 2013. The organization also requested the citizens of Pakistan to sign an online petition urging the ECP to publish the documents available on its website. Source: nation.pk/islamabad/12-Sep-2014/senators-gold-assets-declared
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 09:29:57 +0000
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