{"id":71830,"date":"2018-07-16T16:05:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T11:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=71830"},"modified":"2018-07-16T16:05:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T11:05:57","slug":"general-polls-being-held-in-an-environment-of-fear-bilawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=71830","title":{"rendered":"General polls being held in an &#8220;environment of fear&#8221;: Bilawal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>QUETTA, July 16 (TNS): Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Monday said the July 25 general polls are being held in an &#8220;environment of fear&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gZt95Qq8PfI?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The upcoming polls are being contested in an environment of fear,&#8221; the PPP chairman said while addressing the media in Quetta.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The nation will defeat terrorists through the power of their vote on July 25,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were told that terrorism has been eliminated but terror attacks are occurring before polls,&#8221; the Bhutto family scion upheld.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I cannot comment on politics right now as I am here to extend condolences,&#8221; he further said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Security should be the top priority of the caretaker government,&#8221; Bilawal added.<\/p>\n<p>He further said that elections were also held in Iraq and Afghanistan despite terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Bilawal was in Quetta to extend condolences to the family of Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) leader\u00a0Nawab Siraj Raisani.<\/p>\n<p>The PPP chairman met Raisani&#8217;s son, Jamal Raisani, at Sarawan House and extended condolences.<\/p>\n<p>At least 149 were killed after a suicide bomber struck Raisani&#8217;s election meeting in Darenghar area of Mastung on July 14.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; QUETTA, July 16 (TNS): Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Monday said the July 25 general polls are being held in an &#8220;environment of fear&#8221;. &#8220;The upcoming polls are being contested in an environment of fear,&#8221; the PPP chairman said while addressing the media in Quetta. &#8220;The nation will defeat terrorists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71830","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\/71830","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=71830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71831,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71830\/revisions\/71831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}