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ECP Summons Assets Details of Caretaker PM, Family

Islamabad (May 30, 2018): The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday summoned assets details of nominated caretaker prime minister former CJP Justice (r) Nasirul Mulk and his family members.

The Commission directed to provide assets details within the three days after taking office.

The details would be provided on ECP’s Form-B.

Earlier, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and opposition leader Khursheed Shah had named former chief justice of Pakistan Justice (r) Nasirul Mulk as the caretaker PM.

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The five-year term of the country’s government and National Assembly ends on May 31, after which an interim prime minister and administration will take over.

As the government prepares to hand power over to caretaker administration, President Mamnoon Hussain approved July 25 date, which will see Pakistan’s more than 100 million voters getting the opportunity to vote for both the national and provincial assemblies.

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Profile of Former CJP, Justice Retried Nasirul Mulk

Nasir-ul-Mulk was born in tourist locality Swat, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, on 17 August 1950.[7] He hails from a wealthy and politically influential Paracha family in Swat; his father Seth Kamran was a politician who served as Senator in Senate in the 1970s.

After completing high school from Swat, Mulk attended the Jahanzeb College where he attained BA in Fine Arts in 1970. He enrolled in Peshawar University to study law, also the same year.

He excelled well in his law studies and, at one point, his university professors noted him as “talented and a bright student.In 1972, he graduated with LLB in law from the Peshawar University. For his high studies, Mulk went to United Kingdom and was called at the Inner Temple in England where he did his LLM and qualified as bar-at-law in 1976.

Upon returning to Pakistan, Mulk practised law at Peshawar High Court, and briefly tenured as a professor of law at the Peshawar University while practising as a legal practitioner at Peshawar. Mulk was elected as Secretary-General of the Peshawar High Court Bar in 1981.

He later ascended as president of Peshawar High Court Bar in two separate occasions, first electing in 1990 and again in 1993. From 1993–94, Mulk was appointed as an advocate general of the provincial government of Khyber–Pakhtunkhwa, assisting in legal matters and affairs.After meeting qualifications for being a judge, Mulk was ascended as judge at the Peshawar High Court on 6 June 1994—a post he retained until 2004. Mulk was appointed as Chief Justice of Peshawar High Court on 31 July 2004, and moved to Supreme Court of Pakistan in 2005.

Justice Retired Nasirul Mulk took oath of Chief Justice of Pakistan in 2014. He is one of the seven judges who signed a restraining order on Nov 3, 2007, when General (retd) Pervez Musharraf imposed emergency and forcibly sent the judges home.

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