{"id":43015,"date":"2018-01-09T16:08:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T11:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=43015"},"modified":"2018-01-09T16:08:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T11:08:52","slug":"chaudhry-mahmood-bashir-virk-takes-oath-as-federal-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=43015","title":{"rendered":"Chaudhry Mahmood Bashir Virk takes oath as Federal Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD Jan 09 (TNS):<\/strong> Chaudhry Mahmood Bashir Virk has taken oath as Federal Minister for Law and Justice.<\/p>\n<p>President Mamnoon Hussain administered the oath of office to him at a ceremony at Aiwan-e-Sadr in Islamabad on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony was attended, among others, by Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, members of the Federal Cabinet, parliamentarians and senior officials.<\/p>\n<p>Chaudhry Mahmood Bashir Virk a lawyer by profession. The MNA is currently the chairman of National Assembly&#8217;s Standing Committee on Law and Justice.<\/p>\n<p>Virk had run for the seat of National Assembly on a ticket of Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) from NA-97 (Gujranwala) in 2002 general elections but remained unsuccessful but he was elected as MNA on a ticket of PPML-N from same constituency in 2008 general elections. He was re-elected as MNA in 2013 elections.<\/p>\n<p>The portfolio of law and justice ministry was lying vacant after the minister Zahid Hamid had to resign under an agreement between the PML-N government and the protesting leaders after the deadly clashes between police and protesters belonging to religious groups in November, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD Jan 09 (TNS): Chaudhry Mahmood Bashir Virk has taken oath as Federal Minister for Law and Justice. President Mamnoon Hussain administered the oath of office to him at a ceremony at Aiwan-e-Sadr in Islamabad on Tuesday. The ceremony was attended, among others, by Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, members of the Federal Cabinet, parliamentarians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43015","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\/43015","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=43015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43017,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43015\/revisions\/43017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}