{"id":72930,"date":"2018-07-22T17:48:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T12:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=72930"},"modified":"2018-07-22T17:50:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T12:50:31","slug":"after-abbasis-disqualification-ecp-postpones-polls-in-na-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=72930","title":{"rendered":"After Hanif Abbasi\u2019s disqualification ECP postpones polls in\u00a0NA-60"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ISLAMABAD, July 22 (TNS): In a major development, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) postponed polls in\u00a0NA-60, Rawalpindi constituency on Sunday following Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Hanif Abbasi&#8217;s sentence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The polling schedule for NA-60 will be issued later,&#8221; says a press release issued by the ECP here on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>A special anti-narcotics court sentenced Abbasi to life in the ephedrine quota case late Saturday, just four days before the general election in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, dozens of PML-N workers staged a protest at 6th Road in Rawalpindi against Abbasi&#8217;s life sentence.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72931\" src=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/7d9f914f-ecd4-4910-b31f-79c411f61011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/7d9f914f-ecd4-4910-b31f-79c411f61011.jpg 720w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/7d9f914f-ecd4-4910-b31f-79c411f61011-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/7d9f914f-ecd4-4910-b31f-79c411f61011-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/7d9f914f-ecd4-4910-b31f-79c411f61011-696x1237.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/7d9f914f-ecd4-4910-b31f-79c411f61011-236x420.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; ISLAMABAD, July 22 (TNS): In a major development, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) postponed polls in\u00a0NA-60, Rawalpindi constituency on Sunday following Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Hanif Abbasi&#8217;s sentence. &#8220;The polling schedule for NA-60 will be issued later,&#8221; says a press release issued by the ECP here on Sunday. A special anti-narcotics court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72930","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\/72930","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=72930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72933,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72930\/revisions\/72933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}