{"id":74384,"date":"2018-08-01T14:50:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T09:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=74384"},"modified":"2018-08-01T14:50:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T09:50:51","slug":"two-more-independent-candidates-likely-to-join-pti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=74384","title":{"rendered":"Two more independent candidates likely to join PTI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Islamabad, August 1 (TNS): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) spokesperson Fawad Chaudhry has claimed that two more independent candidates will join the Imran Khan-led party very soon.<\/p>\n<p>As the PTI and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) are embroiled in a tussle over who will form the government in Punjab, Chaudhry said, \u201cTwo more independent candidates will be joining our party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;PTI now has a majority with 182 seats in the Punjab Assembly,&#8221; said Chaudhry, adding that, \u201cWe also have 165 seats in the National Assembly\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Imran Khan-led party had officially won 123 seats in the Punjab Assembly while PML-N had secured 129 during the July 25 polls, when election was held on a total of 295 seats.<\/p>\n<p>PTI is in a position to form a coalition government not only in the centre but also in three provinces of the country \u2014 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and Punjab.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Islamabad, August 1 (TNS): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) spokesperson Fawad Chaudhry has claimed that two more independent candidates will join the Imran Khan-led party very soon. As the PTI and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) are embroiled in a tussle over who will form the government in Punjab, Chaudhry said, \u201cTwo more independent candidates will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74384","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\/74384","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=74384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74385,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74384\/revisions\/74385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}