{"id":76769,"date":"2018-08-30T18:23:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T13:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=76769"},"modified":"2018-08-30T18:24:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T13:24:49","slug":"pml-n-leader-saad-rafique-submits-nomination-papers-to-contest-elections-in-na-131","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=76769","title":{"rendered":"PML-N leader Saad Rafique submits nomination papers to contest by-elections in NA-131"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE, August 30 (TNS): Former Railway Minister and\u00a0Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Khawaja Saad Rafique on Thursday has submitted his nomination papers to contest from NA-131,Lahore constituency in the next by-elections.<\/p>\n<p>The former PML-N lawmaker Rafique had suffered defeat at the hands of current supremo Imran Khan from NA-131 in a close contest.<\/p>\n<p>He secured 83,633 votes against the PTI chairman&#8217;s 84,313 votes in the general elections 2018.<\/p>\n<p>PML-N had issued a ticket to the Punjab Assembly lawmaker to contest the by-elections from the same constituency after PM Imran vacated the seat to keep his hometown seat of NA-95 Mianwali.<\/p>\n<p>Nomination papers of Saad Rafique were submitted by his spokesperson Qasim, and\u00a0 returning officer Raham Zada accepted the papers.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbas has submitted his papers for NA-124 constituency. The seat was vacated by Hamza Shehbaz.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming By-elections will be held on October 14 across the nation and overseas Pakistanis will also be able to vote in these elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE, August 30 (TNS): Former Railway Minister and\u00a0Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Khawaja Saad Rafique on Thursday has submitted his nomination papers to contest from NA-131,Lahore constituency in the next by-elections. The former PML-N lawmaker Rafique had suffered defeat at the hands of current supremo Imran Khan from NA-131 in a close contest. He secured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76769","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\/76769","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=76769"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76784,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76769\/revisions\/76784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}