{"id":72451,"date":"2018-07-19T15:30:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T10:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=72451"},"modified":"2018-07-19T15:30:19","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T10:30:19","slug":"ecp-warns-imran-khan-for-using-foul-language-against-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=72451","title":{"rendered":"ECP warns Imran Khan for using foul language against opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Islamabad, July 19 (TNS): Taking notice of \u201cdonkeys\u201d remarks, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday warned Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan against using inappropriate language for his political opponents during election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The ECP took notice after Imran Khan used the term \u2018donkey\u2019 for PML-N members who were going to\u00a0receive\u00a0Nawaz Sharif at the airport on the eve of his\u00a0arrival.<\/p>\n<p>Following a series of incendiary exchange\u00a0of words, the ECP summoned Imran Khan today but he couldn\u2019t appear owing to his ongoing busy election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Babar Awan, Imran\u2019s legal counsel appeared before the commission and explained that the word \u2018donkey\u2019 is a commonly used term, \u201ceven it is used by teachers in the classrooms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the ECP being discontented with Babar\u2019s explanation directed Imran to refrain from the use of unseemly language for his political rivals.<\/p>\n<p>To which, Babar submitted a written assurance on behalf of Imran vowing to abide by ECP\u2019s instructions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Islamabad, July 19 (TNS): Taking notice of \u201cdonkeys\u201d remarks, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday warned Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan against using inappropriate language for his political opponents during election campaign. The ECP took notice after Imran Khan used the term \u2018donkey\u2019 for PML-N members who were going to\u00a0receive\u00a0Nawaz Sharif [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72451","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\/72451","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=72451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72452,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72451\/revisions\/72452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}