{"id":21360,"date":"2023-12-21T16:02:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T11:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=21360"},"modified":"2023-12-21T16:02:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T11:02:58","slug":"without-fair-elections-parvez-elahi-fears-a-historical-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/without-fair-elections-parvez-elahi-fears-a-historical-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Without fair elections, Parvez Elahi fears a &#8220;historical crisis.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Let elections take place and lay the foundation for good thinking,&#8221; says PTI president<\/p>\n<p>ISLAMABAD: Former Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi on Thursday warned that the country would face a historical crisis if free and fair general elections were not held.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet the elections take place and lay the foundation for good thinking as it will ensure a good future for the poor,\u201d Elahi,\u00a0Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf&#8217;s (PTI) president, said while talking to the media in Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>To a query about a level-playing field in the polls, Elahi \u2014 who is behind bars \u2014 said what about the &#8220;levels&#8221; when there&#8217;s &#8220;no field&#8221;. To another query, he said he backs Barrister Gohar Khan as PTI&#8217;s chairman.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/nomination-papers-to-be-received-by-ecp-today.html\">Nomination papers to be received by ECP today<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The PTI president said he would contest elections from three national constituencies and as many provincial constituencies.<\/p>\n<p>People are starving because of what Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders Nawaz Sharif and Shehbaz Sharif did to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Let elections take place and lay the foundation for good thinking,&#8221; says PTI president ISLAMABAD: Former Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi on Thursday warned that the country would face a historical crisis if free and fair general elections were not held. \u201cLet the elections take place and lay the foundation for good thinking as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":21361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21,2,147],"tags":[5284,2613,148],"class_list":["post-21360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-pervaiz-elahi","tag-pml-q","tag-ecp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21360","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=21360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}