ISLAMABAD: Six of the nine former lawmakers linked to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), who were disqualified from their legislative memberships in 9 May 2023 cases, have submitted their financial statements after proceedings were initiated against them by the electoral body for not filing the required statements.
In May this year, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had fixed cases against Ejaz Chaudhary, Shibli Faraz, Abdul Latif, Sahibzada Hamid Raza, Zartaj Gul, Junaid Afzal Sahi, Shahid Javed, Muhammad Ismael and Rai Murtaza Iqbal for not submitting their statements of assets and liabilities for the financial year 2024-25.
Of them, Chaudhary, Faraz, Sahi, Javed, Ismael and Iqbal have submitted the required statements, Business Recorder has learnt.
Legally, these six lawmakers would remain disqualified from their legislative memberships but would be allowed to contest any general/ by/ Senate/ local government/ election in future, it is further learnt.
The remaining three lawmakers, Raza, Gul and Latif have not yet submitted the required wealth statements. Last month, the ECP declared them ineligible from contesting any general/ by/ Senate/LG election till the submission of the required wealth statements to the electoral body.
An ECP official, requesting anonymity, told Business Recorder that the cases were fixed against a total of nine ex-lawmakers, keeping in view that the wealth statements were not submitted by them for the period when they were the sitting lawmakers—before disqualification.
Since last year, 17 PTI-linked lawmakers have been disqualified by the ECP following their convictions by the courts.
These lawmakers comprised eight National Assembly members, six Punjab Assembly members, and three senators.
Abdul Latif (NA-1 Chitral), Omar Ayub Khan (NA-18 Haripur), Ahmed Chattha (NA-66 Wazirabad), Rai Haider Ali (NA-96 Faisalabad), Sahibzada Hamid Raza (NA-104 Faisalabad), Rai Hassan Nawaz (NA-143 Sahiwal), Jamshaid Dasti (NA-175 Muzaffargarh), Zartaj Gul (NA-185 Dera Ghazi Khan), Ansar Iqbal (PP-73 Sargodha), Ahmad Khan (PP-87 Mianwali), Junaid Afzal Sahi (PP-98 Faisalabad), Shahid Javed (PP-115 Faisalabad), Muhammad Ismael (PP-116 Faisalabad), Rai Murtaza Iqbal (PP-203 Sahiwal), Shibli Faraz (Senate), Ejaz Chaudhary (Senate) and Murad Saeed (Senate) were among the disqualified legislators.
Except Dasti, the other 16 lawmakers were disqualified by the ECP in consequence of their respective convictions by the Anti-Terrorism Courts (ATCs) in the cases related to the May 9 riots
The members of the Parliament and provincial assemblies are required to submit to the ECP, by 31 December each year, statements of assets and liabilities, including those of their spouses and dependent children, for the previous fiscal year, under Section 137 of the Elections Act, 2017.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2026