{"id":74264,"date":"2018-07-31T14:21:12","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T09:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=74264"},"modified":"2018-07-31T14:21:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T09:21:12","slug":"july-25-polls-were-free-and-fair-reiterates-secretary-ecp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=74264","title":{"rendered":"July 25 polls were free and fair: reiterates Secretary ECP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Islamabad, July 31 (TNS): Secretary Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Babar Yaqoob on Tuesday reclaimed that all parties had been provided level playing field.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We took measures to provide a level playing field to all parties,&#8221; the ECP secretary said while addressing the media in Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>Stating that acting upon Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz&#8217;s (PML-N) petition, the electoral body requested the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to not arrest political leaders till after the polls were over, Yaqoob said, &#8220;Elections were postponed in NA-60.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ECP decided to postpone polls in NA-60, Rawalpindi constituency following PML-N leader Hanif Abbasi&#8217;s sentence to ensure that all parties have a level playing field, he noted.<\/p>\n<p>Asserting that the polls were fair, Yaqoob reiterated that the ECP has rejected political parties&#8217; demand for the resignation of the chief election commissioner (CEC).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The call for CEC&#8217;s resignation by a number of political parties\u00a0has been rejected,&#8221; he maintained.<\/p>\n<p>Further condemning the call for the CEC&#8217;s resignation, Yaqoob said, &#8220;If any candidate has complains then they will be dealt with as per the law and complains should be filed in line with the Constitution.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Islamabad, July 31 (TNS): Secretary Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Babar Yaqoob on Tuesday reclaimed that all parties had been provided level playing field. &#8220;We took measures to provide a level playing field to all parties,&#8221; the ECP secretary said while addressing the media in Islamabad. Stating that acting upon Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz&#8217;s (PML-N) [&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-74264","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\/74264","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=74264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74265,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74264\/revisions\/74265"}],"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=74264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}