Interim PM Nasirul Mulk fails to submit assets details after taking oath

ISLAMABAD: Justice (retd) Nasirul Mulk has failed to submit details relating to his assets, Mulk has taken an oath last week as country’s interim Prime Minister.

On 30^th May 2018, The Election Commision of Pakistan (ECP), required the details of assets belonging to the caretaker and his family.

According to reports provided to ECP, letters were sent to ministers who are part of the interim government, the electoral body also sent reminders for the submission of assets details.

Also, the asset details of Federal Cabinet and the caretaker Sindh chief minister Fazlur Rehman are yet awaited.

The former chief justice took oath as Pakistan’s caretaker prime minister at the President House on June 1. A six-member caretaker federal cabinet appointed by Prime Minister Mulk was sworn-in on June 5.

The cabinet comprises of former governor of State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Shamshad Akhtar, former Pakistan ambassador to the United Nations Abdullah Hussain Haroon, former senator Roshan Khursheed Bharucha, Mohammad Yousuf Shaikh, Mohammad Azam Khan, and Syed Ali Zafar.

As per Pakistan Elections Act 2017, it is compulsory to submit assets details within three days of taking oath. Furthermore, the Parliament’s membership of any elected representative if swerved from the law can be suspended.