{"id":3508,"date":"2021-10-26T11:15:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T11:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=3508"},"modified":"2021-10-26T11:15:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T11:15:24","slug":"ecp-directs-azam-swati-to-submit-reply-on-show-cause-notice-within-15-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/ecp-directs-azam-swati-to-submit-reply-on-show-cause-notice-within-15-day\/","title":{"rendered":"ECP directs Azam Swati to submit reply on show cause notice within 15-day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday has conducted hearing on a matter related to leveling accusations of bribe against the commission.<br \/>\nDuring the proceedings, Railways Minister Azam Swati appeared before the authorities and asked to give him one-month time for submission of reply on show cause. The commission rejected the request and directed him to submit his reply within 15 days.<br \/>\nSubsequently, the hearing has been adjourned till November 11.<br \/>\nEarlier, ECP had issued show cause notice to Railways Minister Azam Swati for not appearing in a matter related to allegations against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja.<br \/>\nThe commission expressed resentment and summoned the minister in personal capacity on October 26.<br \/>\nIt is to be mentioned here that Azam Swati had leveled serious allegations against the ECP and CEC of taking bribes during elections.<br \/>\nIn a session of Standing Committee on Parliamentary Affairs, the minister criticized the commission for making fun of the Parliament.<br \/>\nLater, ECP rejected the allegations leveled by the federal ministers and decided to demand evidence from the Federal Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry regarding his statement.<br \/>\nThe ECP members expressed anger over federal ministers for accusing the commission of taking bribes. The allegations are baseless and unacceptable as the ECP is a constitutional department, they stated.<br \/>\n<em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pm-imran-khan-along-first-lady-perform-umrah-prays-for-peace-and-prosperity-of-pakistan-muslim-community.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PM Imran Khan along first lady perform Umrah, prays for peace and prosperity of Pakistan &amp; Muslim community<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday has conducted hearing on a matter related to leveling accusations of bribe against the commission. During the proceedings, Railways Minister Azam Swati appeared before the authorities and asked to give him one-month time for submission of reply on show cause. The commission rejected the request and directed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[1170,2057,491,2059,148,183],"class_list":["post-3508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-azam-swati","tag-cec","tag-election-commission-of-pakistan","tag-federal-ministers","tag-ecp","tag-pm-imran-khan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508","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=3508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}