{"id":32509,"date":"2017-11-22T17:04:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T12:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=32509"},"modified":"2017-11-22T17:04:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T12:04:23","slug":"shafqat-mahmood-hits-back-at-nawaz-for-calling-pti-anti-democratic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=32509","title":{"rendered":"Shafqat Mahmood hits back at Nawaz for calling PTI anti-democratic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD Nov 22 (TNS):<\/strong> Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Shafqat Mahmood on Wednesday hit back at former premier Nawaz Sharif for terming PTI non-democratic and insinuating that it has links with dictators.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Mahmood said that Nawaz, who is also the chief of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, has turned his guns towards PTI to conceal his crimes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis day had to come when Mian Sahib is accusing [us] of relations with dictatorship,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>PML-N itself doesn&#8217;t seem like a democratic party from any aspect, the PTI leader said, adding that the party has a dictatorial style of politics and Nawaz\u2019s leadership style is elitist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole country has seen the true face of the Nawaz\u2019s democracy,\u201d Mahmood said.<\/p>\n<p>Nawaz Sharif came down hard on PTI, the ruling party&#8217;s harshest critic, and the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party 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>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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD Nov 22 (TNS): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Shafqat Mahmood on Wednesday hit back at former premier Nawaz Sharif for terming PTI non-democratic and insinuating that it has links with dictators. In a statement, Mahmood said that Nawaz, who is also the chief of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, has turned his guns towards PTI to conceal his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-32509","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\/32509","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=32509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32512,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32509\/revisions\/32512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}