{"id":183771,"date":"2022-07-16T18:42:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T10:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=183771"},"modified":"2022-07-16T18:42:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T10:42:45","slug":"pakistans-punjab-ready-for-provincial-assembly-byelections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=183771","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan&#8217;s Punjab ready for provincial assembly byelections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEW DELHI, July 16 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Pakistan&#8217;s Punjab province is all set to hold the crucial provincial assembly byelections on Sunday, with the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) locked in a bitter contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Campaigning ended on Friday night for the 20 constituencies that will determine who controls Pakistan&#8217;s most populous province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 52,000 police personnel are being deployed in 14 districts as part of election security arrangements, ARY News reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former prime minister and PTI chairman Imran Khan addressed huge election rallies in recent days as his party tries to regain power in Punjab it lost after a controversial assembly vote in April in which Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif&#8217;s son Hamza Shehbaz became the province&#8217;s chief minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The byelection is being held to fill the seats that fell vacant following the disqualification of PTI defectors who voted for Hamza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At present, Hamza&#8217;s PML-N is short of a simple majority in the provincial legislature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, July 16 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Pakistan&#8217;s Punjab province is all set to hold the crucial provincial assembly byelections on Sunday, with the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) locked in a bitter contest. Campaigning ended on Friday night for the 20 constituencies that will determine who controls Pakistan&#8217;s most populous province. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,286,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183771"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183797,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183771\/revisions\/183797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}