{"id":30132,"date":"2017-11-10T12:46:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T07:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=30132"},"modified":"2017-11-10T12:46:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T07:46:57","slug":"sattar-asks-ecp-to-disqualify-deputy-mayor-arshad-vohra-from-holding-public-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=30132","title":{"rendered":"Sattar asks ECP to disqualify Deputy Mayor Arshad Vohra from holding public office"},"content":{"rendered":"

KARACHI Nov 10 (TNS):<\/strong> Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) leader Farooq Sattar on Friday demanded the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to disqualify Deputy Mayor Arshad Vohra from holding public office.<\/p>\n

In a letter to the ECP chief, the MQM-P leader said that Vohra’s joining of Pak Sarzameen Party is a violation of the Constitution hence he should be immediately disqualified, and a by-election should be called on his local council seat.<\/p>\n

Sattar demanded the immediate issuance of a\u00a0notification to de-seat Vohra.<\/p>\n

The MQM-P leader, in his letter to the ECP, has mentioned the party’s consultative meeting held on November 3 in which the party gave him the authority to pursue legal action against Vohra.<\/p>\n

On October 29, Vohra announced to join the Mustafa Kamal-led PSP in a press conference.<\/p>\n

The deputy mayor said: “I will resign from the post of deputy mayor after completing all the legal formalities.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, later the PSP Chairman Mustafa Kamal said in a public gathering that in light of the ECP’s judgment on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf MNA Ayesha Gulalai’s case, the party would not ask Vohra to leave\u00a0 public office.<\/p>\n

At present, a friend-foe tussle is under way between MQM-P and PSP, with Sattar and Kamal agreeing on Wednesday night to unite their parties only to later see the ‘alliance’ crumble.<\/p>\n

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KARACHI Nov 10 (TNS): Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) leader Farooq Sattar on Friday demanded the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to disqualify Deputy Mayor Arshad Vohra from holding public office. In a letter to the ECP chief, the MQM-P leader said that Vohra’s joining of Pak Sarzameen Party is a violation of the Constitution hence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,23],"tags":[145,589],"class_list":["post-30132","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\/30132","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=30132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30134,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30132\/revisions\/30134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}