Lahore, Jan. 27 -- One daily comes across news items to the effect that the Election Commission has suspended the membership of so and so because they have failed to submit declaration of their private assets as required under the law. These suspensions are later on lifted and nobody knows whether or not the delinquent parliamentarians were fined before their suspension orders were withdrawn or were they allowed to get off lightly.
One is not aware whether or not the EC has evolved any mechanism to ascertain as to the value of the private assets of a parliamentarian at the time of his taking oath as a member of the Assembly as well its monetary worth at the end of his stint as a parliamentarian . It is understood that the NAB is going to ...