{"id":23356,"date":"2024-01-22T12:35:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T07:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=23356"},"modified":"2024-01-22T12:35:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T07:35:40","slug":"election-2024-fawad-chaudhry-declares-election-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/election-2024-fawad-chaudhry-declares-election-boycott\/","title":{"rendered":"Election 2024: Fawad Chaudhry declares Election boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Fawad Chaudhry, the former leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, declared he would abstain from elections because he did not want to cause his employees any more hardships.<\/p>\n<p>Chaudhry stated in a letter penned on Monday from prison that there was no use in running for office if the outcome has &#8220;already been decided.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our nomination papers were rejected without justification, my brother&#8217;s papers were approved, but he was made my co-accused in a corruption case by National Accountability Bureau (NAB)&#8221; declared the former federal minister.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/election-2024-alert-over-17000-polling-stations-designated-highly-sensitive.html\">Election 2024 Alert: Over 17,000 polling stations designated highly sensitive<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The former federal minister also stated in the letter that the Election Commission has done a terrible job of carrying out its mandate, and in light of this, my organization has decided to completely boycott the polls.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, he stated that while he was willing to face any risks, he did not want to cause any hardship for his followers.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Fawad Chaudhry described his attempt to run for office while incarcerated, claiming that despite Jhelum&#8217;s lack of a housing society, his nomination papers had been turned down due to an unreported conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/security-concerns-section-144-imposed-in-bannu-until-february-19.html\">Security concerns: Section 144 imposed in Bannu until February 19<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>He said that because an Easy Paisa account was not declared, the documents were eventually rejected.<\/p>\n<p>He added that after his nomination papers were approved, his brother was detained and subsequently involved in a NAB case.<\/p>\n<p>Any government that emerged from such elections, according to Chaudhry, would have no moral or legal legitimacy at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Fawad Chaudhry, the former leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, declared he would abstain from elections because he did not want to cause his employees any more hardships. Chaudhry stated in a letter penned on Monday from prison that there was no use in running for office if the outcome has &#8220;already been decided.&#8221; &#8220;Our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":23357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21,2,147],"tags":[10297,10362,8529,10707,5786,549],"class_list":["post-23356","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-election-campaign","tag-election-candidates","tag-election-comission-of-pakistan","tag-fawad-ch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23356","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=23356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}