ISLAMABAD, August 29 (TNS): Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians candidate Aitzaz Ahsan expects Muttahida Majlis-e-Ammal (MMA) leader Fazal Ur Rehman to withdraw from Presidential elections.<\/p>\n
In a press talk, after his nomination papers got approved by (ECP),\u00a0 the renowned Barrister said, \u201cI hope Fazlur Rehman would withdraw from the presidential contest in my favor.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also urged Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf members to do justice while they vote in the assembly and said that it is a vote of confidence and added that it is a vote of conscience not of a party, that is the reason it is carried out through secret ballet.<\/p>\n
Referring to Maulana Fazlur Rehman, he reiterated that consensus could not be built on a joint opposition candidate,\u201dWe have requested Maulana Fazlur Rehman to consider our plea but nothing is finalized yet, though we are anticipating a positive outcome,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n
PTI\u2019s Dr Arif Alvi, Pakistan Peoples Party\u2019s (PPP) Aitzaz Ahsan and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman had filed their nomination papers for the presidential polls on Monday which have been approved by the ECP earlier today.<\/p>\n
Following the difference between PPP and PML-N, Aitzaz Ahsan submitted his nomination papers as PPP-backed candidate, whereas, the grand alliance of opposition parties, excluding PPP, fielded Maulana Fazlur Rehman for the presidential polls.<\/p>\n
The opposition led by Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) remained divided over PPP\u2019s decision to nominate Ahsan for president causing split in the strength of the combined opposition.<\/p>\n
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ISLAMABAD, August 29 (TNS): Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians candidate Aitzaz Ahsan expects Muttahida Majlis-e-Ammal (MMA) leader Fazal Ur Rehman to withdraw from Presidential elections. In a press talk, after his nomination papers got approved by (ECP),\u00a0 the renowned Barrister said, \u201cI hope Fazlur Rehman would withdraw from the presidential contest in my favor.\u201d He also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76655","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\/76655","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=76655"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76663,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76655\/revisions\/76663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}