LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has directed the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to publish data of those electoral candidates who have defaulted on their loans or taxes.
The LHC issued six-page interim order on Saturday pertaining to implementation case of article 62, 63 of the constitution in which it took notice of discrepancies in data sent by the Election Commission of Pakistan and the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).
According to the order, the State Bank of Pakistan pointed out that during the scrutiny process it found 500 candidates or their family members were loan defaulters.
The court ordered FBR to include a column of defaulters in its data sheets and publish all details about defaults on its website for a period of three weeks.
LHC took notice of the fact that ECP has sent details about 24,094 candidates while NAB sent details about 23,599 candidates. The court also directed relevant authorities to present details by April 15 about default in payment of dues owed by candidates to WAPDA, PTCL, SNGPL and WASA.
The court also directed ECP to get details from Cooperative Department about candidates who are defaulters.
