{"id":42692,"date":"2024-07-21T12:27:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T07:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=42692"},"modified":"2024-07-21T12:27:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T07:27:55","slug":"nawaz-sharifs-close-aid-asif-kirmani-quits-pml-n-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/nawaz-sharifs-close-aid-asif-kirmani-quits-pml-n-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Nawaz Sharif&#8217;s close aid Asif Kirmani quits PML-N: Here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: In another blow to the ruling party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, Asif Kirmani has resigned from the party, here on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>As per the details, Kirmani, a close aide of party supremo <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/nawaz-sharif-decides-to-skip-budget-session-in-national-assembly\/\">Nawaz Sharif<\/a>, criticized the party&#8217;s leadership and its current political direction, citing his dissatisfaction with the handling of the economy, which he saw as an increase in living standards. Prices and inflation have increased.<\/p>\n<p>He also expressed concern that the party leadership is celebrating its &#8220;ineffective governance&#8221; while the people continue to suffer. In his statement, the veteran politician addressed Sharif directly, saying, \u201cNawaz Sharif Sahib!<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/shehbaz-resigns-nawaz-to-become-pmlns-party-president-again\/\"> All is not well<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At present, Asif has not revealed any intention to join any other political party but promised to provide a detailed explanation about his decision soon.<\/p>\n<p>Kirmani&#8217;s resignation is part of a wider trend of senior PML-N figures leaving the party. Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Abbas Afridi, Muhammad Zubair and Miftah Ismail had earlier left the party citing differences with the leadership and concerns about the party&#8217;s relevance in current politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: In another blow to the ruling party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, Asif Kirmani has resigned from the party, here on Sunday. As per the details, Kirmani, a close aide of party supremo Nawaz Sharif, criticized the party&#8217;s leadership and its current political direction, citing his dissatisfaction with the handling of the economy, which he saw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":42693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,147],"tags":[609,19772],"class_list":["post-42692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-pakistan-muslim-league-nawaz","tag-asif-kirmani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42692","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=42692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42695,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42692\/revisions\/42695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}