{"id":25925,"date":"2024-02-15T13:20:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T08:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=25925"},"modified":"2024-02-15T13:20:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T08:20:26","slug":"firdous-ashiq-awan-apologizes-for-slapping-police-officer-on-feb-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/firdous-ashiq-awan-apologizes-for-slapping-police-officer-on-feb-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Firdous Ashiq Awan apologizes for slapping police officer on Feb 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Central Secretary Information Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party (IPP), Firdous Ashiq Awan apologized for slapping a police officer at a polling place in Sialkot on February 8 during the general election.<\/p>\n<p>The former deferral minister appeared before the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in a police slap case today. Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan submitted a written reply to the ECP.<\/p>\n<p>She also sought a written apology from ECP\u00a0and claimed that while she was being harassed, the police officers were reluctant to defend her.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/phc-withdraws-contempt-notice-against-fawad-firdous-after-they-tendered-an-unconditional-apology.html\">PHC withdraws contempt notice against Fawad, Firdous after they tendered an unconditional apology<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>She said that votes were being illegally cast amid the violation of the law at the polling place and that no one was being held accountable for this behavior.<\/p>\n<p>During the hearing, ECP Sindh member Nasir Durrani stated that the ECP did not expect her slapping a police officer. IPP leader then expressed her apology for what had happened on Feb 8. After the conclusion of the hearing, the ECP later reserved the verdict.<\/p>\n<p>Firdous Ashiq Awan was involved in a case following the release of a video on social media, allegedly showing her slapping a police officer who was on duty at Government High School Gana Kalan in Sialkot NA 70 on Thursday during the polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central Secretary Information Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party (IPP), Firdous Ashiq Awan apologized for slapping a police officer at a polling place in Sialkot on February 8 during the general election. The former deferral minister appeared before the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in a police slap case today. Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan submitted a written reply to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":25930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21,2,147],"tags":[10362,96,11858],"class_list":["post-25925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-election-2024","tag-firdous-ashiq-awan","tag-firdous-ashiq-awan-apologizes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25925","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}