{"id":32133,"date":"2017-11-20T20:41:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T15:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=32133"},"modified":"2017-11-20T20:41:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T15:41:41","slug":"govt-protesters-agree-to-form-new-committee-to-end-islamabad-siege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=32133","title":{"rendered":"Govt, protesters agree to form new committee to end Islamabad siege"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad, Nov. 20 (TNS):<\/strong> To end the siege of federal capital, the government and the\u00a0representatives of Tehreek-e-Labbaik agreed on Monday to form a new committee headed by Pir Haseen ud Deen Shah.<\/p>\n<p>Religious groups are staging two-week-long protest at Faizabad Interchange, the main entry point of the capital city.<\/p>\n<p>Despite talks between the two sides for the second consecutive day at Punjab House, a deadlock persists between the authorities and protesters over the Faizabad blockade.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters are\u00a0continuing to demand the resignation of Law Minister\u00a0Zahid Hamid.<\/p>\n<p>According to them, Hamid is responsible for the hastily-abandoned amendment in the Khatm-e-Nabuwwat clause in Election Act 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Following the meeting, Religious Affairs Minister Sardar Yousuf while reading out a joint communique of the meeting, announced that the committee headed by Shah and comprising of scholars of different schools of thought would come up with a solution to the problem.<\/p>\n<p>It was also decided that the recommendation made by the Raja Zafarul Haq-led committee to find the real culprit behind the \u2018gaffe\u2019 in electoral reforms law, would be made public.<\/p>\n<p>Talking to reporters, Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal said they\u00a0want the protesters to disperse peacefully. \u201cThe government does not want to take any decision in a haste,\u201d he said. \u201cWhoever is responsible for the faux pas will be brought to the fore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique urged the protesters to provide relief to the residents of the twin cities, saying government does not want to use force to get the interchange cleared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no justification for Zahid Hamid\u2019s resignation before a probe is conducted, Rafique said, adding that a committee led by Haq was already looking into the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Nov. 20 (TNS): To end the siege of federal capital, the government and the\u00a0representatives of Tehreek-e-Labbaik agreed on Monday to form a new committee headed by Pir Haseen ud Deen Shah. Religious groups are staging two-week-long protest at Faizabad Interchange, the main entry point of the capital city. Despite talks between the two sides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32133","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=32133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32135,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32133\/revisions\/32135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}