{"id":30582,"date":"2017-11-13T11:41:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T06:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=30582"},"modified":"2017-11-13T11:41:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T06:41:58","slug":"mqm-ps-ali-raza-abidi-sends-resignation-to-na-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=30582","title":{"rendered":"MQM-P&#8217;s Ali Raza Abidi sends resignation to NA speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KARACHI Nov 13 (TNS):<\/strong> Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) MNA Ali Raza Abidi sent on Monday his resignation to the National Assembly speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Citing &#8216;political and personal reasons&#8217; in the resignation letter, Abidi said in a tweet that he has\u00a0scheduled an appointment with the speaker on November 15 when he would verify his resignation in person.<\/p>\n<p>The resignation comes days after Abidi, in a tweet from Iraq, announced quitting the MQM-P after it entered into an electoral alliance with the Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP).<\/p>\n<p>Responding to a query about the reasons for his resignation, as the MQM-P and PSP&#8217;s alliance has been clarified now, Abidi listed the reasons for his resignation as follows:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The 4 year operation in Karachi, its motives, interventions, its results and the future. Couldn\u2019t do much for my constituents and Karachi. Census results. LG [local governmnet] powers. Can\u2019t be a part of electoral alliance with PSP.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He then stated, &#8220;My apologies to all&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI Nov 13 (TNS): Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) MNA Ali Raza Abidi sent on Monday his resignation to the National Assembly speaker. Citing &#8216;political and personal reasons&#8217; in the resignation letter, Abidi said in a tweet that he has\u00a0scheduled an appointment with the speaker on November 15 when he would verify his resignation in person. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,23],"tags":[145,589],"class_list":["post-30582","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\/30582","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=30582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30584,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30582\/revisions\/30584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}