{"id":72984,"date":"2018-07-23T17:04:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T12:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=72984"},"modified":"2018-07-23T17:12:04","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T12:12:04","slug":"lhc-reserves-its-decision-on-sheikh-rasheeds-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=72984","title":{"rendered":"LHC reserves its decision on Sheikh Rasheed&#8217;s plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rawalpindi, July 23 (TNS):\u00a0In wake of disqualification of PML-N candidate Hanif Abbasi, Lahore High Court\u2019s Rawalpindi Bench on\u00a0Monday reserved its decision on Sheikh Rasheed&#8217;s plea challenging the ECP\u2019s decision to postpone polling in NA-60 constituency.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72986\" src=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/45f7120e-c0d9-4763-91ec-d3523f76581d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"862\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/45f7120e-c0d9-4763-91ec-d3523f76581d.jpg 862w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/45f7120e-c0d9-4763-91ec-d3523f76581d-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/45f7120e-c0d9-4763-91ec-d3523f76581d-768x1140.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/45f7120e-c0d9-4763-91ec-d3523f76581d-690x1024.jpg 690w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/45f7120e-c0d9-4763-91ec-d3523f76581d-696x1034.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/45f7120e-c0d9-4763-91ec-d3523f76581d-283x420.jpg 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 862px) 100vw, 862px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The ECP had postponed polling after the arrest and disqualification of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz\u2019s (PML-N) Hanif Abbasi, Rasheed\u2019s main contender for the seat, in the ephedrine quota case last week.<\/p>\n<p>Submitting a petition through his counsel Sardar Abdul Razzaq, Rasheed contended that election cannot be postponed due to the sentencing of a candidate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72987\" src=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/8d341d1b-240e-44cb-b47c-9ad6ab80a952.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"581\" height=\"1032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/8d341d1b-240e-44cb-b47c-9ad6ab80a952.jpg 581w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/8d341d1b-240e-44cb-b47c-9ad6ab80a952-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/8d341d1b-240e-44cb-b47c-9ad6ab80a952-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/8d341d1b-240e-44cb-b47c-9ad6ab80a952-236x420.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rasheed stated in the petition that elections in the constituencies of PML-N\u2019s Maryam Nawaz and Capt (retd) Safdar were not postponed when they were jailed in the Avenfield properties reference earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The petition has named the ECP and NA-60 returning officer as respondents.<\/p>\n<p>LHC Justice Mujahid Mustaqeem conducted \u00a0proceedings where the ECP counsel opposed Rasheed&#8217;s plea.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72988\" src=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/a780e5d4-0bbf-449d-ace7-01b13c7a69c7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"581\" height=\"1032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/a780e5d4-0bbf-449d-ace7-01b13c7a69c7.jpg 581w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/a780e5d4-0bbf-449d-ace7-01b13c7a69c7-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/a780e5d4-0bbf-449d-ace7-01b13c7a69c7-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/a780e5d4-0bbf-449d-ace7-01b13c7a69c7-236x420.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Rawalpindi, July 23 (TNS):\u00a0In wake of disqualification of PML-N candidate Hanif Abbasi, Lahore High Court\u2019s Rawalpindi Bench on\u00a0Monday reserved its decision on Sheikh Rasheed&#8217;s plea challenging the ECP\u2019s decision to postpone polling in NA-60 constituency. The ECP had postponed polling after the arrest and disqualification of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz\u2019s (PML-N) Hanif Abbasi, Rasheed\u2019s main [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72984","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\/72984","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=72984"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72990,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72984\/revisions\/72990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}