{"id":8834,"date":"2022-06-16T13:34:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T13:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=8834"},"modified":"2022-06-16T13:34:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T13:34:13","slug":"one-dead-as-violence-mars-karachis-na-240-by-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/one-dead-as-violence-mars-karachis-na-240-by-election\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead as violence mars Karachi’s NA-240 by-election"},"content":{"rendered":"

KARACHI: Voting continued uninterrupted till 5pm on the seat that fell vacant after the death of MQM-P MNA Muhammad Ali Khan this year on April 19.<\/p>\n

As many as 25 candidates, including MQM-P\u2019s Abu Bakr, Mohajir Qaumi Movement\u2019s Rafi Uddin Faisal, Pak Sarzameen Party\u2019s (PSP) Shabbir Qaimkhani, PPP\u2019s Nasir-Lodhi, and TLP’s Kashif Qadri were contesting elections for the seat. PTI and JI boycotted the by-elections.<\/p>\n

TLP killed party member, alleges PSP<\/p>\n

Talking to a private news channel, PSP chief Mustafa Kamal confirmed that the deceased person was a member of his party and several others were in critical condition.<\/p>\n

Read more:\u00a0Sindh cabinet approves formation of Provincial Finance Commission<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cHe was our party member, who was aged. He resided in Baldia. The TLP people attacked us and killed my party member,\u201d the PSP chairman said, rebutting the claims of the TLP that they were attacked.<\/p>\n

Kamal said that had the PSP used weapons, no one would be able to open fire at their offices and return safely. \u201cThey (TLP) are spewing lies. I appeal to the authorities that arrest them or give us weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ruling out that his party resorted to violence, Kamal said his party members\u2019 \u201clives were very precious to him\u201d and that he wanted action to be taken against TLP for allegedly gunning down his party member.<\/p>\n

Kamal was present at the time that the firing incident took place during the by-polls \u2014 which witnessed low-voter turnout amid the violent clashes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KARACHI: Voting continued uninterrupted till 5pm on the seat that fell vacant after the death of MQM-P MNA Muhammad Ali Khan this year on April 19. As many as 25 candidates, including MQM-P\u2019s Abu Bakr, Mohajir Qaumi Movement\u2019s Rafi Uddin Faisal, Pak Sarzameen Party\u2019s (PSP) Shabbir Qaimkhani, PPP\u2019s Nasir-Lodhi, and TLP’s Kashif Qadri were contesting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,147],"tags":[633,6018],"class_list":["post-8834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-sindh-government","tag-tlp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834","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=8834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}