{"id":15834,"date":"2017-08-26T14:56:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T09:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=15834"},"modified":"2017-08-26T14:56:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T09:56:27","slug":"ecp-issues-list-of-44-candidates-contesting-for-na-120","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=15834","title":{"rendered":"ECP issues list of 44 candidates contesting for NA-120"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD, Aug 26 (TNS):<\/strong> The Election Commission of Pakistan has issued final list of the candidates contesting for the upcoming NA-120 by-poll in Lahore.<\/p>\n<p>According to Returning Officer Mohammad Shahid, the schedule is finalized and election symbols have been allotted to the candidates. Shahid said that a total of 44 candidates will contest for the NA-120.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 220 polling stations and 573 polling booths have been formed for the by-poll falling on Sept 17.<\/p>\n<p>The RO, presiding officers and polling staff will initiate the training program from September 6.<\/p>\n<p>From the mainstream political parties, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz nominated Kulsoom Nawaz, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has Dr Yasmin Rashid, and Pakistan People\u2019s Party nominated Faisal Meer.<\/p>\n<p>It was decided in a meeting chaired by Chief Election Commissioner Justice (Retd) Sardar Raza Khan that the ECP would be using, as a test case, biometric machines in the NA-120 by-poll.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Aug 26 (TNS): The Election Commission of Pakistan has issued final list of the candidates contesting for the upcoming NA-120 by-poll in Lahore. According to Returning Officer Mohammad Shahid, the schedule is finalized and election symbols have been allotted to the candidates. Shahid said that a total of 44 candidates will contest for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589,108],"class_list":["post-15834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-islamabad","tag-national","tag-tns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15834","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=15834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15840,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15834\/revisions\/15840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}