{"id":64682,"date":"2018-05-10T17:57:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T12:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=64682"},"modified":"2018-05-10T17:57:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T12:57:47","slug":"bilawal-demands-for-probe-into-assassination-attempt-on-ahsan-iqbal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=64682","title":{"rendered":"Bilawal demands for probe into assassination attempt on Ahsan Iqbal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lahore, May 10 (TNS):<\/strong> The Chairman of Pakistan People\u2019s Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has demanded a thorough probe into the attack on Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Sunday by an assailant during a political gathering in Narowal.<br \/>\nThe chairperson of PPP paid a visit to Ahsan Iqbal on Thursday and inquired about his health, whereas, the interior minister is recovering from his wounds at Lahore&#8217;s Services Hospital.<br \/>\nBilawal called for a detailed investigation into the assassination attempt and condemned the attack while addressing the media outside the hospital.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Ahsan Iqbal incident is highly condemnable and should not happen be it government or opposition, we all need to unite against politics of hate so that we can fight extremism,&#8221; said Bilawal.<br \/>\n\u201cWe have been condemning such attacks since day one. &#8220;All our opponents are humans first and then politicians, such attacks should not take place,\u201d he said. \u201cWe all should come together against politics of hatred, be it lawmakers in the treasury benches or in the opposition.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe PPP leader also condemned the release of &#8220;terrorists&#8221; who were allegedly involved in the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.<br \/>\n&#8220;We had submitted a request when the five terrorists were arrested,&#8221; Bilawal said. &#8220;Even DNA tests carried out at a laboratory abroad proved their involvement in the assassination, despite that bail was granted.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe PPP leader said, the release of the terrorists made no sense especially when all the evidence was against them.<br \/>\nHe also talked about the clashes that broke out between workers of Pakistan Tehreek Insaf and PPP in Karachi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore, May 10 (TNS): The Chairman of Pakistan People\u2019s Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has demanded a thorough probe into the attack on Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Sunday by an assailant during a political gathering in Narowal. The chairperson of PPP paid a visit to Ahsan Iqbal on Thursday and inquired about his health, whereas, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64682","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=64682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64686,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64682\/revisions\/64686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}