{"id":37803,"date":"2024-03-01T06:29:50","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T06:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=37803"},"modified":"2024-03-01T06:29:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T06:29:53","slug":"as-pakistans-newly-elected-parliament-meets-a-look-at-the-pm-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=37803","title":{"rendered":"As Pakistan\u2019s newly elected parliament meets, a look at the PM candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Al Jazeera:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Islamabad, Pakistan <\/strong>\u2013 Who will be the next prime minister of Pakistan?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That will be the big question as the country\u2019s parliament convenes on Thursday for the first time after the controversial February 8 national elections, marred by large-scale <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/2\/17\/pakistan-official-admits-involvement-in-rigging-election-results\">allegations of rigging<\/a> and manipulation of results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tense election threw a split verdict, with independent candidates backed by the jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan\u2019s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party winning 93 seats, followed by three-time PM Nawaz Sharif\u2019s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) securing 75, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/2\/16\/bhutto-about-turn-behind-the-ppp-plan-to-back-pakistans-new-government\">Pakistan People\u2019s Party<\/a> (PPP) 54.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The PMLN and the PPP are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/2\/21\/out-of-power-whats-next-for-imran-khans-pti-in-pakistan\">in a coalition<\/a> to form the government, with one of the PTI-backed legislators also joining Sharif\u2019s party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the run-up to the vote, the PTI was stripped of its election symbol by the Election Commission of Pakistan for violating election laws, forcing its candidates to run as independents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Jazeera: Islamabad, Pakistan \u2013 Who will be the next prime minister of Pakistan? That will be the big question as the country\u2019s parliament convenes on Thursday for the first time after the controversial February 8 national elections, marred by large-scale allegations of rigging and manipulation of results. The tense election threw a split verdict, with independent candidates backed by the jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan\u2019s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party winning 93 seats, followed by three-time PM Nawaz Sharif\u2019s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) securing 75, and Pakistan People\u2019s Party (PPP) 54. The PMLN and the PPP are in a&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37805,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37803\/revisions\/37805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}