{"id":73784,"date":"2018-07-26T21:19:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T16:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=73784"},"modified":"2018-07-26T21:19:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T16:19:56","slug":"polls-held-in-a-free-and-fair-manner-babar-yaqoob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=73784","title":{"rendered":"Polls held in a free and fair manner: Babar Yaqoob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Islamabad, July 26 (TNS): Pakistan&#8217;s elections oversight body has rejected allegations by a candidate for parliament that voting in national elections was rigged, saying the polls were held in a free and fair manner.<\/p>\n<p>Babar Yaqoob, a top official at the Election Commission, said the turnout in Wednesday&#8217;s vote was about 55 percent, slightly better than previous elections.<\/p>\n<p>He dismissed allegations of rigging saying no candidate or political party had submitted any written complaint to the commission.<\/p>\n<p>Yaqoob said that 80 to 90 percent results have been collected by the body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Islamabad, July 26 (TNS): Pakistan&#8217;s elections oversight body has rejected allegations by a candidate for parliament that voting in national elections was rigged, saying the polls were held in a free and fair manner. Babar Yaqoob, a top official at the Election Commission, said the turnout in Wednesday&#8217;s vote was about 55 percent, slightly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73784","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\/73784","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=73784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73785,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73784\/revisions\/73785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}