{"id":55375,"date":"2018-03-05T16:28:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T11:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=55375"},"modified":"2018-03-05T16:28:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T11:28:33","slug":"fata-senator-mirza-afridi-joins-pml-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=55375","title":{"rendered":"FATA Senator Mirza Afridi joins PML-N"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad March 5 (TNS):<\/strong> Independent Senator Mirza Mohammad Afridi, who was elected to the Senate in cent polls from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, on Monday joined the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz.<\/p>\n<p>After a meeting with former prime minister and PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif on Monday, Afridi announced to join the PML-N.<\/p>\n<p>In the Senate polls on Saturday, the PML-N-backed independent candidates grabbed the majority of seats the Upper House of Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>After Afridi\u2019s joining the PML-N, its total strength in the Senate rose to 34. In the Senate polls, 15 PML-N backed candidates were elected with the party grabbing 11 seats from Punjab, two each from Islamabad and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.<\/p>\n<p>Elections for the slot od Senate chairman and deputy chairman would be held on March 10 and the PML-N and the PPP have accelerated their contacts to lure a maximum number of votes to get their nominees elected on the two coveted seats. A total of 53 votes would be required for the election of Senate chairman.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad March 5 (TNS): Independent Senator Mirza Mohammad Afridi, who was elected to the Senate in cent polls from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, on Monday joined the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz. After a meeting with former prime minister and PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif on Monday, Afridi announced to join the PML-N. In the Senate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-55375","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\/55375","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=55375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55377,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55375\/revisions\/55377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}