{"id":22864,"date":"2024-01-15T22:01:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T17:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=22864"},"modified":"2024-01-15T22:01:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T17:01:01","slug":"pml-n-punjabs-vice-president-samaira-malik-resigns-over-ticket-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pml-n-punjabs-vice-president-samaira-malik-resigns-over-ticket-denial\/","title":{"rendered":"PML-N Punjab&#8217;s Vice President Samaira Malik resigns over ticket denial"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>In her resignation, Samaira Malik cited her non-nomination for the specific seat.<\/h4>\n<p>Samaira Malik, the Vice President of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in Punjab, has tendered her resignation from party responsibilities and membership after being denied a ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Former federal minister Samaira Malik submitted her resignation to Rana Sanaullah, the President of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pmln_org\">PML-N<\/a> Punjab. The decision came following the party&#8217;s announcement of Shaukat Basheer Awan as the candidate for NA-87, the constituency for which Samaira had applied. Notably, she had expressed interest in contesting the elections from NA-87 but was overlooked in favor of Shaukat Basheer Awan.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pmln-supremo-nawaz-sharif-wants-accountability-not-revenge.html\">PMLN Supremo Nawaz Sharif wants accountability not revenge<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In her resignation, Samaira Malik cited her non-nomination for the specific seat as the reason for stepping down from both her party position and membership. She had previously demanded a designated party seat and decided to part ways when her request went unheeded.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth mentioning that Samaira Malik had applied for the PML-N ticket for NA-87 but was not selected, prompting her to announce an independent candidacy. Her spokesperson, Sami ul Haq Awan, stated that Samaira Malik would now support the Pakistan People&#8217;s Party (PPP) candidates in the upcoming elections.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/nab-closes-inquiries-including-the-sharif-trust-case-against-nawaz-and-family.html\">NAB closes inquiries, including the Sharif Trust Case against Nawaz and family<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This development adds a new dimension to the political landscape as Samaira Malik&#8217;s decision to contest independently could impact the dynamics in NA-87. As the election season unfolds, political alignments and strategies are likely to evolve in response to such shifts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her resignation, Samaira Malik cited her non-nomination for the specific seat. Samaira Malik, the Vice President of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in Punjab, has tendered her resignation from party responsibilities and membership after being denied a ticket. Former federal minister Samaira Malik submitted her resignation to Rana Sanaullah, the President of PML-N Punjab. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":22865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,147],"tags":[609,10747],"class_list":["post-22864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-pakistan-muslim-league-nawaz","tag-samaira-malik"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22864","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}