{"id":53731,"date":"2024-02-16T12:38:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T09:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=53731"},"modified":"2024-02-16T12:38:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T09:08:49","slug":"pti-backed-independents-lead-in-pakistan-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/53731\/pti-backed-independents-lead-in-pakistan-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"PTI-backed independents lead in Pakistan elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>According to the Election Commission of Pakistan, independent candidates won 102 seats. The majority of the independents are affiliated with former Prime Minister Imran Khan\u2019s party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the CNN reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz party (PMLN), headed by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, came in second with 73 seats, and the Pakistan People\u2019s Party (PPP) won 54 seats.<\/p>\n<p>None of the three major parties of the country will win the necessary 169 seats to have a majority in parliament and, therefore, will be unable to form government on their own, leaving it unclear who will be picked as the country\u2019s next prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>The results were announced more than three days after the polls closed in Thursday\u2019s highly contentious election which was marred by violence and subject to allegations of poll rigging.<\/p>\n<p>The PTI party has called on party workers and supporters to hold protests on Sunday outside polling offices in constituencies where party members say election results were \u201cwithheld and delayed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The capital Islamabad has imposed Section 144, allowing police to take legal action against any illegal assemblies and activities.<\/p>\n<p>MNA\/PR<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Election Commission of Pakistan, independent candidates won 102 seats. The majority of the independents are affiliated with former Prime Minister Imran Khan\u2019s party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the CNN reported. The Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz party (PMLN), headed by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, came in second with 73 seats, and the Pakistan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7103,7100,7110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accidents-en","category-international-en","category-politic-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}