{"id":42182,"date":"2018-01-05T20:08:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T15:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42182"},"modified":"2018-01-05T20:08:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T15:08:43","slug":"ahsan-uncertain-about-timely-conduct-of-senate-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42182","title":{"rendered":"Ahsan uncertain about timely conduct of Senate elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad, Jan. 5 (TNS):<\/strong> The Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Friday expressed uncertainty regarding the timely conduct of Senate elections which are due in March, citing the prevailing uncertain political situation in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Talking to a private news channel, he said the country was passing through a state of uncertainty and no one can predict whether the Senate elections would be held on time or not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough we are hopeful that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) will complete its constitutional term, the overall situation of the country remains a matter of concern,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Resignations and sit-ins are against the interest of the country in the prevailing scenario, he maintained.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed the need to \u201crealise the threats being faced by the country on the foreign front\u201d and asked the citizens to maintain peace, stability, and unity to tackle the foreign threats. \u201cOtherwise, we will be doing a disservice to ourselves,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Citing the possibility of fresh sit-ins in the capital and a no-confidence motion against Balochistan Chief Minister Sanaullah Zehri, Iqbal said the current developments in the political arena are likely to have a negative impact on the country\u2019s stance against foreign threats.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Jan. 5 (TNS): The Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Friday expressed uncertainty regarding the timely conduct of Senate elections which are due in March, citing the prevailing uncertain political situation in the country. Talking to a private news channel, he said the country was passing through a state of uncertainty and no one can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[1264,118,589],"class_list":["post-42182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-ahsan-iqbal","tag-islamabad","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42182","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=42182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42183,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42182\/revisions\/42183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}