Election Commission suspends membership of 159 members for failing to submit statements, barring them from parliamentary business. Membership of 32 from National Assembly, 50 from Punjab Assembly including Education Minister Rana Sikandar Hayat, 33 from Sindh Assembly, 28 from KP Assembly, 7 from Balochistan Assembly, and 9 from Senate has been suspended.
Suspended members include Federal Minister Mushtaq Malik, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, Arshad Wara, Sardar Akhtar Mengal, Syed Abdul Qadir Gilani, Ali Musa Gilani, Saira Afzal Tarar, and Mahreen Razaq Bhutto among others. From the Senate, membership of Fauzia Arshad, Abid Sher Ali, Murad Saeed, and Noor-ul-Haq Qadri has also been suspended.
