{"id":77286,"date":"2018-09-06T15:52:45","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T10:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=77286"},"modified":"2018-09-06T15:52:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T10:52:45","slug":"will-not-enjoy-immunity-in-criminal-cases-president-elect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=77286","title":{"rendered":"Will not enjoy immunity in criminal cases: President-elect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Islamabad, Sept. 6 (TNS): President-elect Dr Arif Alvi on Thursday said that he will not seek immunity in a criminal case that had been registered against him in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Citing an English newspaper\u2019s news report, Alvi said in a tweet, \u201cI don\u2019t intend to. The accused in this case are also my Prime Minister Imran Khan and Ministers Shafqat Mahmood, Asad Umar and Shah Mahmood Qureshi. How can I seek immunity? I will consult my lawyers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier during the 2014 sit-in, the case was registered against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders for inciting violence during the protest.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the Constitution extends immunity from criminal proceedings to the president under Article 248.<\/p>\n<p>The article states, \u201cNo criminal proceeding whatsoever shall be instituted or continued against the President or a Governor in any court during the term of office.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Islamabad, Sept. 6 (TNS): President-elect Dr Arif Alvi on Thursday said that he will not seek immunity in a criminal case that had been registered against him in 2014. Citing an English newspaper\u2019s news report, Alvi said in a tweet, \u201cI don\u2019t intend to. The accused in this case are also my Prime Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77286","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\/77286","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=77286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77287,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77286\/revisions\/77287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}