{"id":73162,"date":"2018-07-24T16:16:59","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T11:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=73162"},"modified":"2018-07-24T16:16:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T11:16:59","slug":"top-court-upholds-lhc-decision-over-sheikh-rasheed-plea-against-ecp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=73162","title":{"rendered":"Top court upholds LHC decision over Sheikh Rasheed plea against ECP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>LAHORE, July 24 (TNS): In a major developmet, the Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday rejected Sheikh Rasheed\u2019s plea against ECP&#8217;s decision to postpone election on NA-60.<\/p>\n<p>The ECP had announced to postpone the polls after PMLN leader Hanif Abbasi was disqualified after verdict of ephedrine case.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi bench also dismissed Rasheed\u2019s plea challenging the election commission\u2019s order of postponing polls in NA-60 Rawalpindi following life term awarded to PML-N candidate Hanif Abbasi.<\/p>\n<p>The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had postponed the election in NA-60 after Sheikh Rashid\u2019s main rival Hanif Abbasi was disqualified after being sentenced in the \u2018ephedrine case\u2019 last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Awami Muslim League (AML) chief challenged the ECP order in the Rawalpindi bench of the LHC .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; LAHORE, July 24 (TNS): In a major developmet, the Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday rejected Sheikh Rasheed\u2019s plea against ECP&#8217;s decision to postpone election on NA-60. The ECP had announced to postpone the polls after PMLN leader Hanif Abbasi was disqualified after verdict of ephedrine case. On Monday, the Lahore High Court (LHC) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73162","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\/73162","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=73162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73163,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73162\/revisions\/73163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}