{"id":7690,"date":"2022-04-16T11:43:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T11:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=7690"},"modified":"2022-04-16T11:43:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T11:43:17","slug":"deputy-speaker-punjab-assembly-attacked-with-lotas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/deputy-speaker-punjab-assembly-attacked-with-lotas\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy Speaker Punjab Assembly attacked with lotas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LAHORE: Deputy Speaker Punjab Assembly Dost Muhammad Mazari has been attacked with \u2018lotas\u2019 by members of treasury as the House is set to elect the chief minister Punjab with Hamza Shehbaz and Chaudhry Parvez Elahi in the run, media reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The deputy speaker was taken out of the provincial assembly building by police and the security of the assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Punjab Assembly Speaker Parvez Elahi lamented the entry of police inside the House and blamed IG Punjab for it. \u201cThis has not happened in the national history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He demanded that the IG should be summoned and be sent behind bars for one month.<\/p>\n<p>Punjab Assembly session to elect new chief minister of the province will be held today as PML-Q leader Chaudhry Parvez Elahi and PML-N\u2019s Hamza Shehbaz are vying for the slot.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, the session which will be headed by Deputy Speaker Dost Muhammad Mazari could turn violent as the estranged members of the PTI are likely to face stiff resistance amidst their plan to vote for Hamza Shehbaz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PTI has decided to resign from Punjab Assembly in case its candidate Parvez Elahi faces defeat in the poll,\u201d they said and added, \u201cImran Khan has also spoken to party leaders in Punjab and coalition partners in this regard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, while speaking to media today, Deputy Speaker Punjab Assembly Dost Muhammad Mazari said the court has directed him to conduct free and fair elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will try to hold free and fair elections and have allowed media to cover the proceedings to bring transparency,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He feared that the two sides could make an atmosphere to adjorn\u00a0the session however, he would ensure that the proceedings are held smoothly and results are announced today.<\/p>\n<p>He further denied any meeting with Hamza Shehbaz and said that if anyone has a proof of it then they could share it with him.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pm-shehbaz-says-imran-khan-sold-toshakhana-gifts-worth-rs140m-in-dubai.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PM Shehbaz says Imran Khan sold Toshakhana gifts worth Rs140m in Dubai<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Deputy Speaker Punjab Assembly Dost Muhammad Mazari has been attacked with \u2018lotas\u2019 by members of treasury as the House is set to elect the chief minister Punjab with Hamza Shehbaz and Chaudhry Parvez Elahi in the run, media reported. The deputy speaker was taken out of the provincial assembly building by police and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7690","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=7690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}