{"id":70173,"date":"2018-07-01T16:13:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T11:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=70173"},"modified":"2018-07-01T16:14:41","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T11:14:41","slug":"ecp-takes-notices-of-torture-on-pml-ns-candidate-rana-iqbal-siraj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=70173","title":{"rendered":"ECP takes notice of torture on PML-N\u2019s candidate Rana Iqbal Siraj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ISLAMABAD, July 1 (TNS):\u00a0The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Sunday\u00a0took notice\u00a0of the reported roughing up of a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candidate Rana Iqbal Siraj in Multan and directed the Punjab government to provide security to election candidates in Multan, Narowal and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to Caretaker Punjab Chief Minister Dr Hasan Askari Rizvi, the ECP secretary has said\u00a0that free and fair polls can only be achieved in a conducive law and order environment.<\/p>\n<p>The letter also states that the relevant officials were made aware earlier of threats to political leaders and contesting candidates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It appears, unfortunately, that concerned authorities have yet to take the bull by the horns,&#8221; the letter reads.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, a PML-N candidate in Multan claimed in a social media post that he was beaten up by security officials and forced to change his vote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our candidate in Multan Rana Iqbal Siraj was slapped and threatened of dire consequences,&#8221; PML-N supremo and former premier Nawaz Sharif said Saturday night from London.<\/p>\n<p>Nawaz had urged the caretaker prime minister and chief election commissioner to take notice of threats to candidates.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; ISLAMABAD, July 1 (TNS):\u00a0The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Sunday\u00a0took notice\u00a0of the reported roughing up of a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candidate Rana Iqbal Siraj in Multan and directed the Punjab government to provide security to election candidates in Multan, Narowal and elsewhere. In a letter to Caretaker Punjab Chief Minister Dr Hasan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70173","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=70173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70176,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70173\/revisions\/70176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}