{"id":14039,"date":"2017-08-16T17:16:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T12:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=14039"},"modified":"2017-08-16T17:16:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T12:16:45","slug":"pml-n-fails-to-decide-future-party-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=14039","title":{"rendered":"PML-N fails to decide future party head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lahore, August 16 (TNS):<\/strong> Leaders of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Wednesday failed to decide who would replace Nawaz Sharif aftermath of disqualification of former prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>At a consultative meeting led by Nawaz Sharif at his Raiwind residence, the leaders, however, decided to continue with the party\u2019s \u201cmass-contact drive\u201d in the wake of a \u201cpositive\u201d response from supporters along the ex-PM\u2019s rally on GT Road.<\/p>\n<p>Those who attended the meeting include National assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, Punjab Governor Rafiq Rajwana, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Foreign Minister Khwaja Muhammad Asif, Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal, Railways Minister Khwaja Saad Rafiq, Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah, MNA Hamza Shahbaz, Senator Pervaiz Rashid, Anushe Rehman, former law minister Zahid Hamid and ex-IG Rana Maqbool.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did discuss all available options for a new party chief but could not arrive at a decision&#8230;we decided to hold huddles for a couple of more days keeping in view various legal and political sensitivities involved with the issue,\u201d Mr Rafiq told reporters outside the meeting\u2019s venue.<\/p>\n<p>Though he did not share details about the meeting, sources said that a new face, other than Shahbaz Sharif, is being considered so that the chief minister could continue focussing his attention on Punjab\u2019s mega development projects.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore, August 16 (TNS): Leaders of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Wednesday failed to decide who would replace Nawaz Sharif aftermath of disqualification of former prime minister. At a consultative meeting led by Nawaz Sharif at his Raiwind residence, the leaders, however, decided to continue with the party\u2019s \u201cmass-contact drive\u201d in the wake of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,23],"tags":[589],"class_list":["post-14039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lahore","category-national","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14041,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14039\/revisions\/14041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}