{"id":75579,"date":"2018-08-15T15:12:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T10:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=75579"},"modified":"2018-08-15T15:12:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T10:12:51","slug":"amid-uproar-ptis-asad-qaisar-swears-in-as-speaker-na","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=75579","title":{"rendered":"Amid uproar, PTI\u2019s Asad Qaisar swears-in as Speaker NA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Islamabad, Aug. 15 (TNS): Amid uproars in the House by PML-N lawmakers, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf nominee Asad Qaiser took oath as new Speaker of the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Qaiser was elected as the speaker of the National Assembly after a one-on-one contest against opposition candidate Syed Khursheed Shah on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Qaiser bagged 176 votes while Shah bagged 146 votes. Outgoing Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq announced the winner.<\/p>\n<p>Total 330 votes were polled out of which 322 were valid while 8 rejected. Asad Qaiser has bagged 176 votes while Khursheed Shah has bagged 146 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after announcement of result, members of PML-N started chanting slogans \u201cvote ko Izat do\u201d. After uproar in the House, newly elected Speaker adjourned the session for 15 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Islamabad, Aug. 15 (TNS): Amid uproars in the House by PML-N lawmakers, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf nominee Asad Qaiser took oath as new Speaker of the National Assembly. Qaiser was elected as the speaker of the National Assembly after a one-on-one contest against opposition candidate Syed Khursheed Shah on Wednesday. Qaiser bagged 176 votes while Shah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75579","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\/75579","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=75579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75581,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75579\/revisions\/75581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}