{"id":74372,"date":"2018-08-01T13:12:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T08:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=74372"},"modified":"2018-08-01T13:19:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T08:19:51","slug":"pervez-khattak-asks-for-pardon-from-ecp-over-offensive-language-in-election-rallies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=74372","title":{"rendered":"Pervez Khattak asks for pardon from ECP over offensive language in election rallies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Islamabad, August 1 (TNS): Over the use of offensive language during Election Campaign rallies former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak on Wednesday submitted an unconditional apology in Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).<\/p>\n<p>Khatak&#8217;s written reply has sought pardon from ECP in the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Election Commissioner inquired from Khattak\u2019s counsel, &#8220;Have you heard your client\u2019s statement in rallies?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His statements were unintentional. ECP had issued notice on July 19 but did not mention the specific speech at that time,&#8221; the counsellor replied.<\/p>\n<p>The court also played the clip of Khattak\u2019s speech pointed out by ECP.<\/p>\n<p>After a verbal outburst, the ECP had directed to hold back the election results of Khattak in case he emerged victorious in the elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Islamabad, August 1 (TNS): Over the use of offensive language during Election Campaign rallies former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak on Wednesday submitted an unconditional apology in Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). Khatak&#8217;s written reply has sought pardon from ECP in the matter. Chief Election Commissioner inquired from Khattak\u2019s counsel, &#8220;Have you heard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74372","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\/74372","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=74372"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74377,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74372\/revisions\/74377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}