Schedule for by elections to be announced soon, says Dilshad
Adnan Rafique

ISLAMABAD—Secretary Election Commission of Pakistan Kanwar Muhammad Dilshad has said that the schedule for by elections on national and provincial assemblies seats would be announced soon.
The list carrying names of successful candidates as a result of Feb 18 elections has been provided to National Assembly Secretariate, he said this while talking to media men outside the Parliament house before start of National Assembly session on Wednesday.
The election commission has no link for elections of Speaker and Deputy Speaker National Assembly while it is a responsibility of National Assembly Secretariate, Dilshad pointed out.
The election commission would announce the schedule for by elections within 60 days after convening session of the provincial assemblies while yet only the session of National Assembly was summoned, he said. By elections would be executed at 30 constituencies of the National Assembly while preparation in this respect has been started, he concluded.
Secretary Election Commission of Pakistan Kanwar Muhammad Dilshad has invited attention of the Members elected on more than one seat to Article 223 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
A press release issued on Wednesday said that under Article 223 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973, no person shall, at the same time, be a member of (a) both Houses; or a House and a Provincial Assembly; or the Assemblies of two or more Provinces; or a House or a Provincial Assembly in respect of more than one seat.
Nothing in clause (1) shall prevent a person from being a candidate for two or more seats at the same body or in different bodies, but if he is elected to more than one seat he shall, within a period of thirty days after the declaration of the result for the last such seat, resign all but one of his seats, and if he does not so resign, all the seats to which he has been elected shall become vacant at the expiration of the said period of thirty days except the seat to which he has been elected last or, if he has been elected to more than one seat on the same day, the seat for election to which his nomination was filed last.
A person to whom clause (2) applies shall not take a seat in either House or the Provincial Assembly to which he has been elected until he has resigned all but one of his seats, the press release added.
It said that Subject to clause (2) if a member of either House or of a Provincial Assembly becomes a candidate for a second seat which, in accordance with clause (1), he may not hold concurrently with his first seat, then his first seat shall become vacant as soon as he is elected to the second seat.”
The Secretary ECP said that the notifications of returned candidates from National Assembly of Pakistan as well as four Provincial Assemblies of the country have been issued by the Election Commission of Pakistan on the March 1st.
Kanwar Muhammad Dilshad said that the notifications of candidates elected on Reserved Seats for Women and Non-Muslims in the National/Provincial Assemblies have been issued on March 6. The Secretary ECP further said that the notifications of returned candidates from National/Provincial Assemblies seats contain the names of candidates returned to more than one seat in either House or in difference Houses.