{"id":30120,"date":"2017-11-10T12:34:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T07:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=30120"},"modified":"2017-11-10T12:34:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T07:34:17","slug":"we-thoroughly-enjoyed-sattars-3-hour-drama-quips-shehla-raza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=30120","title":{"rendered":"We thoroughly enjoyed Sattar&#8217;s \u20183-hour drama\u2019, quips Shehla Raza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KARACHI Nov 10 (TNS):<\/strong> Members and leaders of various political parties have spoken their minds on the recent resignation and subsequent retraction of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) chief Farooq Sattar.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan Peoples Party leader Shehla Raza said that Sattar\u2019s stunt was simply a repetition of the London-based MQM founder\u2019s politics, quipping that her party thoroughly enjoyed the entire episode which was spread over three hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSattar\u2019s days were almost over, now he\u2019s back in the business. Now [Pakistan Sarzameen Party chief] Mustafa Kamal\u2019s days seem to be over,\u201d said Raza.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Marvi Memon in a tweet said: \u201cFrankly ths (sic) whole business is not even worth a reaction. It\u2019s their business. Let them handle it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Shireen Mazari meanwhile called the episode a &#8220;theatre of the absurd&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday night, Sattar retracted his decision to quit the party and politics, saying his mother has convinced him to keep serving the people of Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My mother ordered me to continue serving the country and its people. To fulfill her wishes, I take my decision back,&#8221; he remarked on late on Thursday night, almost an hour after announcing his decision to quit.<\/p>\n<p>Following the announcement of the resignation, Sattar went inside his house which was surrounded by party members. The members tried to pacify Sattar and convince him to take his decision back.<\/p>\n<p>Sattar returned and addressed another press conference after being introduced by Faisal Sabzwari as \u201cMQM-Pakistan Chief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI swear to God, this is not any drama,\u201d he remarked. \u201cI am willing to serve as an adviser to Rabita Committee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI Nov 10 (TNS): Members and leaders of various political parties have spoken their minds on the recent resignation and subsequent retraction of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) chief Farooq Sattar. Pakistan Peoples Party leader Shehla Raza said that Sattar\u2019s stunt was simply a repetition of the London-based MQM founder\u2019s politics, quipping that her party thoroughly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,23],"tags":[145,589],"class_list":["post-30120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-karachi","category-national","tag-karachi","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30120","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=30120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30122,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30120\/revisions\/30122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}