{"id":30826,"date":"2017-11-14T12:53:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T07:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=30826"},"modified":"2017-11-14T12:59:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T07:59:00","slug":"ihc-suspends-elections-act-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=30826","title":{"rendered":"IHC suspends Elections Act 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD Nov 14 (TNS):<\/strong> The Islamabad High Court (IHC) suspended on Tuesday the Elections Act 2017 on a petition filed against the recent amendments to the law.<br \/>\nHowever, according to the deputy attorney general, only clause 241 of the law has been suspended.<br \/>\nMaulana Allah Wasaya had filed a petition against the amendment in the act through Advocate Tariq Asad.<br \/>\nAsad said that the IHC has suspended the law and sought replies from the federal government and other respondents in 14 days.<br \/>\nIn his arguments, the deputy attorney general said that elections are around the corner and a decision to suspend the law will lead to chaos.<br \/>\nJustice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui, who was hearing the case, said it is a sensitive matter but it cannot be left without adjudication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD Nov 14 (TNS): The Islamabad High Court (IHC) suspended on Tuesday the Elections Act 2017 on a petition filed against the recent amendments to the law. However, according to the deputy attorney general, only clause 241 of the law has been suspended. Maulana Allah Wasaya had filed a petition against the amendment in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-30826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-islamabad","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30826","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=30826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30827,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30826\/revisions\/30827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}