{"id":28238,"date":"2017-11-01T16:59:53","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T11:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=28238"},"modified":"2017-11-01T16:59:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T11:59:53","slug":"opposition-leader-khursheed-shah-hits-out-at-those-ignoring-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=28238","title":{"rendered":"Opposition Leader Khursheed Shah hits out at those ignoring Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD Nov 01 (TNS):<\/strong> Someone who is detached from Parliament cannot take part in politics, said Opposition Leader Khursheed Shah on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a meeting of the Public Accounts Committee in the National Assembly, Shah said importance has to be given to Parliament if someone wants to partake in parliamentary politics. Otherwise [he can] go sell food on the street, he said, adding that, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan will have to come to Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about the country&#8217;s power woes, the Pakistan Peoples Party leader said\u00a0it was stated [by the present government] that load-shedding and circular debt will end.<\/p>\n<p>However, the circular debt has increased to Rs450 billion and cannot be contained until structural changes are made in the system.<\/p>\n<p>He despite low global oil prices, the electricity rates have been increased.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The poor do not\u00a0steal electricity. It is the gas and power industries that steal electricity,&#8221; he stated further.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD Nov 01 (TNS): Someone who is detached from Parliament cannot take part in politics, said Opposition Leader Khursheed Shah on Wednesday. Speaking during a meeting of the Public Accounts Committee in the National Assembly, Shah said importance has to be given to Parliament if someone wants to partake in parliamentary politics. Otherwise [he can] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589,111,110],"class_list":["post-28238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-islamabad","tag-national","tag-pakistan-news","tag-times-international-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28238","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=28238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28239,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28238\/revisions\/28239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}