{"id":56358,"date":"2024-11-17T14:41:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T09:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=56358"},"modified":"2024-11-17T14:41:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T09:41:25","slug":"sibi-by-elections-candidate-boycotts-elections-mid-polling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/sibi-by-elections-candidate-boycotts-elections-mid-polling\/","title":{"rendered":"Sibi by-elections: Candidate boycotts elections mid-polling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SIBI: In a surprising development,<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/sibi-by-election-polling-underway-for-pb-8-constituency\/\"> Mir Asghar Khan Marri<\/a>, an independent who was the runner-up in the last general elections, has declared that he will not participate in the ongoing<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/election-2024\/by-elections-2024-ecp-to-allot-electoral-symbols-to-candidates-today\/\"> by-elections<\/a> being held in the PB-8 Sibi Constituency in Balochistan.<\/p>\n<p>This has come after Marri maintained that the entire machinery of the state is being used to tilt the elections in favor of Sardar Kohyar Domki, the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/bilawal-bhutto-zardari-nomianted-as-ppps-parliamentary-leader\/\">Pakistan People\u2019s Party\u2019s<\/a> (PPP) candidate.<\/p>\n<p>The by-elections, which are in the course of being conducted, were required owing to the death of PPP\u2019s Provincial Assembly member Sarfraz Domki.<\/p>\n<p>The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) rules state that polling for a provincial assembly seat would go on until 5 p.m. Concerning the bye-elections, the police and the Frontier Constabulary (FC) have been deployed to Sibi\u2019s sensitive polling stations, which are also under CCTV surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, residents have been severely inconvenienced since mobile signals in Sibi and its outskirts have been switched off since last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SIBI: In a surprising development, Mir Asghar Khan Marri, an independent who was the runner-up in the last general elections, has declared that he will not participate in the ongoing by-elections being held in the PB-8 Sibi Constituency in Balochistan. This has come after Marri maintained that the entire machinery of the state is being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":56359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24055,24054],"class_list":["post-56358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-mir-asghar-khan-marri-boycotts-elections","tag-sibi-by-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56358","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=56358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56360,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56358\/revisions\/56360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}