{"id":15119,"date":"2017-08-22T19:40:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T14:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=15119"},"modified":"2017-08-22T19:40:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T14:40:35","slug":"hamza-shehbaz-leaves-for-london-ahead-of-na-120-by-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=15119","title":{"rendered":"Hamza Shehbaz leaves for London ahead of NA-120 by-poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LAHORE, Aug 22 (TNS): <\/strong>Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and nephew of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Hamza Shehbaz Sharif, left for London Tuesday morning ahead of the NA-120 by-election in Lahore.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the party\u2019s core committee mandated to run the election campaign in the NA-120 by-poll, Hamza, MNA from Lahore, said the party\u2019s candidate, Begum Kulsoom Nawaz, is like his own mother and he considers her election his own.<\/p>\n<p>Hamza informed the party\u2019s local leadership that he will monitor the NA-120 by-election campaign from abroad, further adding that the party workers should leave no stone unturned in ensuring victory in the upcoming by-poll.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier reports suggested the PML-N chief removed his nephew as in-charge of NA-120 election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, Nawaz had called a meeting in Jati Umrah where he asked federal minister Pervaiz Malik to take over charge of the election campaign for his wife, Begum Kulsoom Nawaz.<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly, Malik had asked Nawaz to let Hamza run the election campaign but his request was denied by the former prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>Sources added that, after his removal, Hamza said that he is a political worker and would continue his political activities. However, later Hamza expressed his displeasure and signaled to his close confidants that he would leave the country during the election campaign.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE, Aug 22 (TNS): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and nephew of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Hamza Shehbaz Sharif, left for London Tuesday morning ahead of the NA-120 by-election in Lahore. Speaking to the party\u2019s core committee mandated to run the election campaign in the NA-120 by-poll, Hamza, MNA from Lahore, said the party\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,23],"tags":[157,589,108],"class_list":["post-15119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lahore","category-national","tag-lahore","tag-national","tag-tns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15119","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=15119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15121,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15119\/revisions\/15121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}