{"id":7585,"date":"2022-04-12T11:59:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T11:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=7585"},"modified":"2022-04-12T11:59:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T11:59:38","slug":"imran-khan-demands-immediate-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/imran-khan-demands-immediate-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan demands immediate elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD: PTI Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan on Monday reiterated his demand for immediate elections in the country saying it is the only way forward.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a series of tweets, he said the party will be holding a\u00a0<em>jalsa\u00a0<\/em>in Peshawar after Isha prayers \u2013 his first public meeting after being de-seated from the highest office in the land through a \u201cforeign-instigated regime change\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad1 id_ad_content-horiz-center\">\n<div class=\"vast-contentroll\" data-debug=\"true\" data-collapse=\"true\" data-companion=\"fasle\" data-responsive=\"true\" data-vast=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ads?iu=\/67551462\/ARYNEWS-Outstream-Web_PR&amp;description_url=https%3A%2F%2Farynews.tv%2Fen&amp;tfcd=0&amp;npa=0&amp;sz=320x180%7C352x288%7C375x210%7C640x360%7C400x300&amp;gdfp_req=1&amp;output=vast&amp;unviewed_position_start=1&amp;env=vp&amp;impl=s&amp;correlator=\" data-init=\"1\" data-loaded=\"1\" data-started=\"1\" data-loading=\"1\" data-controlls=\"1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI want all our people to come, as Pakistan was created as an independent, sovereign state not as a puppet state of foreign powers,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>He said elections is the only way forward to \u201clet the people decide, through fair &amp; free elections, whom they want as their prime minister.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are demanding immediate elections as that is the only way forward &#8212; to let the people decide, through fair &amp; free elections, whom they want as their prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImranKhanPTI\/status\/1513569609546272768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, PTI decided to resign from the National Assembly after former prime minister Imran Khan said that he would not sit in the assemblies with \u201cthieves\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the decision, Sheikh Rasheed said that sitting in the assemblies would further strengthen Shehbaz Sharif and therefore it has been decided to submit resignations from the National Assembly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: PTI Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan on Monday reiterated his demand for immediate elections in the country saying it is the only way forward. In a series of tweets, he said the party will be holding a\u00a0jalsa\u00a0in Peshawar after Isha prayers \u2013 his first public meeting after being de-seated from the highest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,147],"tags":[5404,2899,151],"class_list":["post-7585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-pm-shehbaz-sharif","tag-sheikh-rasheed","tag-national-assembly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7585","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=7585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}