{"id":68588,"date":"2018-06-11T18:03:16","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T13:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=68588"},"modified":"2018-06-11T18:03:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T13:03:16","slug":"nisar-decides-to-contest-polls-as-an-independent-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=68588","title":{"rendered":"Nisar decides to contest polls as an independent candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RAWALPINDI, June 11 (TNS): Former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan will contest the upcoming general election as an independent candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Nisar, who has been associated with the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), announced his decision during a corner meeting held at Adiala Road on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe party [PML-N] has given tickets to political orphans,\u201d Nisar said, adding, \u201cThere are 10 faults in the PTI and 100 [faults] in the PML-N.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that it is time for him to work even harder, as he would be contesting the election as an independent candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Political aides of Chaudhry Nisar earlier filed the nomination papers for constituencies NA-63, NA-59, PP-10 and PP-12.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the former interior minister alleged that a &#8216;comical drama&#8217; was being staged by PML-N leadership to not issue him party tickets for the forthcoming polls.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; RAWALPINDI, June 11 (TNS): Former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan will contest the upcoming general election as an independent candidate. Nisar, who has been associated with the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), announced his decision during a corner meeting held at Adiala Road on Monday. \u201cThe party [PML-N] has given tickets to political orphans,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68588","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=68588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68589,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68588\/revisions\/68589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}