{"id":55109,"date":"2018-03-02T20:08:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T15:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=55109"},"modified":"2018-03-02T20:08:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T15:08:23","slug":"mqm-p-factions-reunite-a-day-before-senate-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=55109","title":{"rendered":"MQM-P factions reunite a day before Senate polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Islamabad, March 1 (TNS): Farooq Sattar and Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui groups of Muttahida Quami Movement-Pakistan on Friday announced a reunion to contest Senate polls under one umbrella.<\/p>\n<p>Sattar and Siddiqui, during a joint news conference, said that both factions agreed upon names of 5 candidates who will contest Senate polls under MQM-P banner.<\/p>\n<p>Name of Kamran Tessori included in the list of five candidates the two groups finalized.<\/p>\n<p>Tessori was the main reason of split in MQM-P.<\/p>\n<p>Barrister Farogh Naseem, Abdul Qadir Khanzada, Dr Nighat Shakeel and Sanjay Perwani will also contest polls under MQM-P umbrella.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, in a major development, Election Commission of Pakistan rejected petitions of Bahadurabad group of MQM filed against Sattar.<\/p>\n<p>The group had sought an interim relief from ECP.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Islamabad, March 1 (TNS): Farooq Sattar and Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui groups of Muttahida Quami Movement-Pakistan on Friday announced a reunion to contest Senate polls under one umbrella. Sattar and Siddiqui, during a joint news conference, said that both factions agreed upon names of 5 candidates who will contest Senate polls under MQM-P banner. Name [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55109","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\/55109","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=55109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55111,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55109\/revisions\/55111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}