{"id":68296,"date":"2018-06-07T17:14:20","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T12:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=68296"},"modified":"2018-06-07T17:14:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T12:14:20","slug":"pml-n-calls-on-ecp-to-review-its-decision-over-askari-selection-as-interim-cm-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=68296","title":{"rendered":"PML-N calls on ECP to review its decision over Askari selection as interim CM Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ISLAMABAD, June 7 (TNS): Rejecting appointment of Dr Hassan Askari as caretaker Punjab chief minister, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Thursday called on the Election Commission of Pakistan to review its decision.<\/p>\n<p>In a press conference held hours after the ECP chose Dr Askari for the interim slot, PML-N leaders voiced their reservations over selection of Dr Hassan Askari as caretaker Punjab chief minister.<\/p>\n<p>Former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said that Dr Askari\u2019s appointment as the caretaker Punjab CM would cast doubt over transparency in the upcoming general election.<\/p>\n<p>Abbasi, accompanied by Saad Rafique, Ahsan Iqbal, Khurram Dastgir, Rana Sanaullah among other party leaders, said Dr Askari was an ardent critic of the PML-N and that his partiality was evident in the views he expressed in his articles and news programmes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is unfortunate that the ECP chose [Askari for the position]. The PML-N will reject the election results if he is made caretaker chief minister of Punjab,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The former prime minister, brandishing an article penned down by Askari years ago, said that his articles show his partiality against the PML-N.<\/p>\n<p>Abbasi lamented that the names proposed by the PML-N for the caretaker Punjab CM slot were of individuals with good reputation whose neutrality was well-established.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; ISLAMABAD, June 7 (TNS): Rejecting appointment of Dr Hassan Askari as caretaker Punjab chief minister, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Thursday called on the Election Commission of Pakistan to review its decision. In a press conference held hours after the ECP chose Dr Askari for the interim slot, PML-N leaders voiced their reservations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68296","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=68296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68298,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68296\/revisions\/68298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}