(ii) any area in a Province from which she seeks membership for election to a seat
reserved for women.
(c) he is, in the case of the Senate, not less than thirty years of age and is enrolled as a voter
in any area in a Province or, as the case may be, the Federal Capital or the Federally
Administered Tribal Areas, from where he seeks membership;
(d) he is of good character and is not commonly known as one who violates Islamic
Injunctions;
(e) he has adequate knowledge of Islamic teachings and practices obligatory duties
prescribed by Islam as well as abstains from major sins;
(f) he is sagacious, righteous, nonprofligate, honest and ameen, there being no declaration to
the contrary by a court of law; and
(g) he has not, after the establishment of Pakistan, worked against the integrity of the
country or opposed the ideology of Pakistan.
(2) The disqualifications specified in paragraphs (d) and (e) shall not apply to a person who is a
nonMuslim, but such a person shall have good moral reputation.]
1[63. Disqualifications for membership of MajliseShoora (Parliament). (1) A person shall be
disqualified from being elected or chosen as, and from being, a member of the MajliseShoora
(Parliament), if—
(a) he is of unsound mind and has been so declared by a competent court; or
(b) he is an undischarged insolvent; or
(c) he ceases to be a citizen of Pakistan, or acquires the citizenship of a foreign State; or
(d) he holds an office of profit in the service of Pakistan other than an office declared by law
not to disqualify its holder; or
(e) he is in the service of any statutory body or any body which is owned or controlled by the
Government or in which the Government has a controlling share or interest; or
(f) being a citizen of Pakistan by virtue of section 14B of the Pakistan Citizenship Act, 1951
(II of 1951), he is for the time being disqualified under any law in force in Azad Jammu
and Kashmir from being elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Azad Jammu
and Kashmir; or
(g) he has been convicted by a court of competent jurisdiction for propagating any opinion, or
acting in any manner, prejudicial to the ideology of Pakistan, or the sovereignty, integrity
or security of Pakistan, or the integrity, or independence of the judiciary of Pakistan, or
which defames or brings into ridicule the judiciary or the Armed Forces of Pakistan,
unless a period of five years has elapsed since his release; or
1 Subs. by the Constitution (Eighteenth Amdt.) Act, 2010 (10 of 2010), s. 21, for "Article 63".
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