{"id":73047,"date":"2018-07-23T19:47:30","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T14:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=73047"},"modified":"2018-07-23T19:47:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T14:47:30","slug":"shah-expresses-serious-concerns-over-transparency-of-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=73047","title":{"rendered":"Shah expresses serious concerns over transparency of polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Islamabad, July 23 (TNS): Senior leader of PPP Khursheed Shah on Monday expressed concerns over transparency of upcoming general polls.<\/p>\n<p>Talking to journalists in Karachi, former opposition leader in National Assembly claimed that a level playing field is not being provided to all political parties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDisqualify them, lock them up, and hand the election to Sheikh Rasheed,\u201d Shah said referring to the life imprisonment sentence awarded to Pakistan Muslim-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Hanif Abbasi in the ephedrine quota case just three days ahead of general elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve my political differences with the PML-N, but I take exception to the judgement against him [Abbasi] ,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe message we\u2019re giving to the public is that he [Abbasi] was disqualified to hand the election to Sheikh Rasheed,\u201d Shah said.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif\u2019s conviction in the Avenfield case, he said that court\u2019s decision coincided with this week\u2019s general elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven his [Nawaz\u2019s] bail hearing has been fixed after July 25,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Islamabad, July 23 (TNS): Senior leader of PPP Khursheed Shah on Monday expressed concerns over transparency of upcoming general polls. Talking to journalists in Karachi, former opposition leader in National Assembly claimed that a level playing field is not being provided to all political parties. \u201cDisqualify them, lock them up, and hand the election [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73047","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\/73047","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=73047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73048,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73047\/revisions\/73048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}