{"id":68393,"date":"2018-06-09T14:46:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T09:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=68393"},"modified":"2018-06-09T14:46:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T09:46:39","slug":"interim-govt-responsible-to-provide-equal-opportunity-to-all-parties-askari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=68393","title":{"rendered":"Interim govt responsible\u00a0to provide equal opportunity to all parties: Askari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lahore, June 9 (TNS): In his first address to the media after taking charge as Punjab\u2019s caretaker chief minister, Dr Hassan Askari said the interim government was responsible\u00a0for providing equal opportunity to all political parties.<\/p>\n<p>The interim chief minister also stated that his provincial cabinet will be limited and apolitical.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur aim is to hold free and fair elections which we will work upon according to the Election Commission of Pakistan\u2019s framework,\u201d Askari said\u00a0while talking to the media outside Iqbal\u2019s mausoleum.<\/p>\n<p>He further added that maintaining peace during the elections was the priority of the caretaker setup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe district administration is always unbiased and is never part of politics,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to a question, the caretaker chief minister said that \u201calien forces playing their role in the elections\u201d is a political narrative used by political parties for their benefit.<\/p>\n<p>Askari took oath as the caretaker chief minister on Friday amidst controversy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Lahore, June 9 (TNS): In his first address to the media after taking charge as Punjab\u2019s caretaker chief minister, Dr Hassan Askari said the interim government was responsible\u00a0for providing equal opportunity to all political parties. The interim chief minister also stated that his provincial cabinet will be limited and apolitical. \u201cOur aim is to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lahore","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68393","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=68393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68395,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68393\/revisions\/68395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}