{"id":57873,"date":"2018-03-26T11:10:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T06:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=57873"},"modified":"2018-03-26T11:10:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T06:10:01","slug":"dr-farooq-sattar-removed-as-mqm-p-convener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=57873","title":{"rendered":"Dr Farooq Sattar removed as MQM-P convener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad March 26 (TNS):<\/strong> The Election Commission of Pakistan on Monday removed Dr Farooq Sattar as convener of the party which has further split into two groups.<\/p>\n<p>The five-member bench headed by Chief Election Commissioner Sardar Ahmed on Monday announced a brief verdict which said that Dr Sattar could no more lead the party.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict comes after the Bahadurabad Group led by Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui moved the ECP challenging the intra-party elections conducted by Dr Sattar, declaring himself as the convener of the party.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sattar had challenged the jurisdiction of the ECP contending that the poll body could not intervene in the internal matters of the party.<\/p>\n<p>Several hearings were held on the matter before the ECP announced the verdict, removing Dr Sattar<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad March 26 (TNS): The Election Commission of Pakistan on Monday removed Dr Farooq Sattar as convener of the party which has further split into two groups. The five-member bench headed by Chief Election Commissioner Sardar Ahmed on Monday announced a brief verdict which said that Dr Sattar could no more lead the party. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-57873","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\/57873","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=57873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57874,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57873\/revisions\/57874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}