{"id":93642,"date":"2020-09-22T15:27:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T10:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=93642"},"modified":"2020-09-22T15:27:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T10:27:27","slug":"govt-committed-to-its-electoral-reform-agenda-shahzad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=93642","title":{"rendered":"Govt committed to its electoral reform agenda: Shahzad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Sep 22, 2020 (TNS): Advisor on Accountability Shahzad Akbar says the government is committed to its electoral reform agenda and will support every step to make the electoral process more transparent.<\/p>\n<p>Talking to a private news channel, he said the use of biometric system in the election is mandatory to remove doubts about transparency in manual polling process.<\/p>\n<p>The Advisor said PML-N and PPP leadership should play a more active role in electoral reforms committee of the Parliament, as change would come from the Parliament, not through negative politics.<\/p>\n<p>He said the government wants to implement proposed electoral reforms with consensus.<\/p>\n<p>Shahzad Akbar said the federal cabinet has already approved the electoral and constitution amendment bills which are now pending for final approval from parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Sep 22, 2020 (TNS): Advisor on Accountability Shahzad Akbar says the government is committed to its electoral reform agenda and will support every step to make the electoral process more transparent. Talking to a private news channel, he said the use of biometric system in the election is mandatory to remove doubts about transparency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93642","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\/93642","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=93642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93643,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93642\/revisions\/93643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}