{"id":21198,"date":"2023-12-19T15:58:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T10:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=21198"},"modified":"2023-12-19T15:58:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T10:58:55","slug":"i-wont-contest-in-election-shahid-khaqan-abbasi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/i-wont-contest-in-election-shahid-khaqan-abbasi\/","title":{"rendered":"I won\u2019t contest in election: Shahid Khaqan Abbasi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, the former prime minister, declared he would not run for office.<\/p>\n<p>A prominent member of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Shahid Khaqan, dodged questions about leaving the PML-N or starting a new political party during an interview with the media in Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>In response to a query, the disgruntled PML-N chief stated that neither Nawaz Sharif nor he &#8220;felt any need of it.&#8221; &#8220;General elections will be held definitely on February 8,&#8221; he responded to a different query.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the level playing field is now comparable to what it was when the PTI first came to power. &#8220;Level playing: what is it? It&#8217;s the law and the constitution,&#8221; he declared.<\/p>\n<p>On a question about \u201cmalicious intent\u201d in Toshakhana and Al-Qadir cases, he said there are courts and the judicial system present, and the justice will be served, if not now then after five or six years. \u201cI am facing cases in NAB courts for four years over attending a meeting,\u201d Shahid Khaqan said.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/demanding-politics-devoid-of-personal-vendettas-bilawal-bhutto.html\">Demanding politics devoid of personal vendettas, Bilawal Bhutto<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurrent NAB [National Accountability Bureau] chairman is unaware that the people\u2019s lives are being destroyed, who will be accountable for this injustice in the country,\u201d Abbasi said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier reports suggested that the former premier will formally announce his decision to part ways with the PML-N in coming days. The veteran politician had earlier asserted that he would not contest in the general elections, terming the upcoming polls as \u2018pointless. \u2013 INP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, the former prime minister, declared he would not run for office. A prominent member of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Shahid Khaqan, dodged questions about leaving the PML-N or starting a new political party during an interview with the media in Islamabad. In response to a query, the disgruntled PML-N chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":21200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21,2,147],"tags":[10297,10362,3545],"class_list":["post-21198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-election","tag-election-2024","tag-shahid-khaqan-abbasi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}