{"id":76153,"date":"2018-08-20T19:30:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T14:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=76153"},"modified":"2018-08-20T19:30:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T14:30:23","slug":"ecp-allows-overseas-pakistanis-to-exercise-voting-right-in-by-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=76153","title":{"rendered":"ECP allows overseas Pakistanis to exercise voting right in by-elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">Islamabad, Aug. 20 (TNS): Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday decided to allow overseas Pakistanis to exercise their right of casting vote in up-coming by-elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">The decision was made in a meeting chaired by Secretary ECP Babar Yaqoob in Islamabad to discuss the matter of permission to overseas Pakistanis for casting their vote in bye-elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">The meeting finalized the strategy to allow all overseas Pakistanis to cast their vote in by-elections in the light of orders of Supreme Court of Pakistan and special instructions have been issued to National Database and Registration Authority in this regard.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Aug. 20 (TNS): Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday decided to allow overseas Pakistanis to exercise their right of casting vote in up-coming by-elections. The decision was made in a meeting chaired by Secretary ECP Babar Yaqoob in Islamabad to discuss the matter of permission to overseas Pakistanis for casting their vote in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76153","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=76153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76154,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76153\/revisions\/76154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}