{"id":15409,"date":"2017-08-24T12:26:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T07:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=15409"},"modified":"2017-08-24T12:26:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T07:26:51","slug":"deployment-of-army-troops-at-na-120-by-election-polling-stations-sought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=15409","title":{"rendered":"Deployment of army troops at NA-120 by-election polling stations sought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD, Aug 24 (TNS):<\/strong> The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) dispatched a letter to the Ministry of Defense on Thursday seeking deployment of army troops at the polling stations in the upcoming NA-120 by-election.<\/p>\n<p>The ECP letter asked for army troops\u2019 deployment inside and outside the polling stations falling in the Lahore constituency.<\/p>\n<p>The troops will perform their duties until the end of the polling time. Earlier, the NA-120 Returning Officer had also requested the deployment of army troops for the by-poll which is scheduled to be held on September 17, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The parliamentary seat had fallen vacant after Nawaz Sharif was disqualified under Article 62 of the Constitution in the Panama Papers case by the Supreme Court. Nawaz&#8217;s wife, Kulsoom Nawaz, filed her nomination papers for the seat as the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz candidate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Aug 24 (TNS): The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) dispatched a letter to the Ministry of Defense on Thursday seeking deployment of army troops at the polling stations in the upcoming NA-120 by-election. The ECP letter asked for army troops\u2019 deployment inside and outside the polling stations falling in the Lahore constituency. The troops [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-15409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-islamabad","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15409","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=15409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15410,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15409\/revisions\/15410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}