{"id":32395,"date":"2017-11-22T12:17:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T07:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=32395"},"modified":"2017-11-22T12:17:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T07:17:55","slug":"pti-not-a-political-democratic-party-nawaz-sharif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=32395","title":{"rendered":"PTI not a political, democratic party: Nawaz Sharif"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD Nov 22 (TNS):<\/strong> Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif came down hard on the ruling party&#8217;s harshest critic, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media after attending the proceedings of the accountability court which is hearing three corruption references against him, Nawaz said, the &#8220;dictator\u2019s black laws were rejected on the floor of the house yesterday&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He was referring to the rejection in the National Assembly on Tuesday of the Elections Amendment Bill 2017, which sought to restrict disqualified parliamentarians from heading a political party after 163 members voted against the proposed change in the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistan Muslim League-N president lamented the Pakistan Peoples Party&#8217;s (PPP) moving of the amendment bill, saying, &#8220;the PPP&#8217;s support for this bill hurt me. The party&#8217;s action has made me question their democratic credentials&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the party&#8217;s past struggles and sacrifices for democracy do not sit well with their present action [of supporting an anti-democratic law].<\/p>\n<p>Talking about the PTI, Nawaz said there is nothing democratic about the party, adding that the PTI is not even a political party [due to its link with dictators].<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, speaking informally to journalists inside the courtroom, Nawaz said his government was not allowed to work, adding that despite the dharnas (sit-ins) which started from 2014, the country progressed.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the courts&#8217; alleged lenient attitude towards PTI Chairman Imran Khan, Nawaz said the rules of the game should be the same.<\/p>\n<p>He said court decisions in their case come swiftly and wondered when the decision on &#8216;their&#8217; cases will come. &#8220;The courts&#8217; double standards are becoming evident,&#8221; he said further.<\/p>\n<p>Corruption scandals of PTI leaders Imran, Jahangir Tareen and Aleem Khan also surfaced, he said further.<\/p>\n<p>Nawaz also hit out at Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak, a PTI leader, saying he used official vehicles to lead rallies against the federal government during the 2014 sit-in.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD Nov 22 (TNS): Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif came down hard on the ruling party&#8217;s harshest critic, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), on Wednesday. Speaking to the media after attending the proceedings of the accountability court which is hearing three corruption references against him, Nawaz said, the &#8220;dictator\u2019s black laws were rejected on the floor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32395","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\/32395","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=32395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32398,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32395\/revisions\/32398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}