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Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan

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The amendment requires to follow the same procedure for extension in the tenure of members of ECP as specified for the Chief Election Commissioner, Similarly the procedure to remove an ECP Member would be same as the removal of Chief Election
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If the constituted committees failed to evolve consensus on a caretaker set-up within three days, the matter would be referred to the ECP for appointing the Care taker Prime Minister and Chief Ministers.
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The amendments were done in Article 48, Article 214, Article 215, Article 216, Article 218, Article 219, Article 224, Article 224A, and to the Second & Third Schedule to the
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It requires to constitute an eight-member committee each at the Center and the Provinces to nominate the prime minister and the chief ministers respectively and their cabinets.
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to administer oath of the new Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), who will then administer the oath to newly appointed members of the Election Commission.
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Under the amendment the provision of not holding an office of profit will now also apply to the members of ECP like the Chief Election Commissioner.
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The amendment reduced the number of committees at provinces for appointing caretaker chief ministers and their cabinets.
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Member of the ECP is now required to send his resignation to the President.
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Chief Election Commissioner of Gilgit-Baltistan: Raja Shah Baz Khan
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where it was passed on February 20, 2012 and signed by the
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Chief Election Commissioner of AJK: Abdul Rashid Sulehria
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Twentieth Amendment Bill to the Constitution of Pakistan
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Index

Politics of Pakistan

Federalism
Federal government
Provincial governments
Punjab
Sindh
KPK
Balochistan
Governors
Sardar Saleem Haider
Kamran Tessori
Faisal Karim Kundi
Sheikh Jaffar Khan
Syed Mehdi Shah
Chief Ministers
Maryam Nawaz
Murad Ali Shah
Ali Amin Gandapur
Sarfraz Bugti
Gulbar Khan
Provincial assemblies of Pakistan
Punjab
Sindh
KPK
Balochistan
Gilgi-Baltistan
Azad Kashmir government
President
Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry

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