{"id":272832,"date":"2022-07-23T09:43:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T04:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=272832"},"modified":"2022-07-23T09:43:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T04:43:07","slug":"hammad-azhar-to-have-important-role-in-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/hammad-azhar-to-have-important-role-in-punjab\/","title":{"rendered":"Hammad Azhar to have \u2018important role\u2019 in Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE<br \/>\nPakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan Friday vowed to keep a close eye on Lahore \u2014 considered to be the political heart of Pakistan\u2019s largest province, Punjab. \u201cI will not keep away from Lahore. Next month, I will live here twice a week,\u201d he told a private television channel, from his residence in Zaman Park. Seemingly upbeat ahead of the election for the chief minister of Punjab, where PTI is favoured to win after clinching 15 seats in the recently held Punjab by-election, Khan turned to Hammad Azhar \u2014 present during the interview \u2014 saying that he will be given an \u201cimportant role\u201d whereby he will organise the party in the province.<br \/>\nThe former prime minister also heaped praise on party leader Yasmin Rashid, saying that the ex-health minister has done tremendous work for the PTI in Punjab. PTI leaders Fawad Chaudhry and Zulfi Bukhari were also present.<br \/>\nThe PTI chief, speaking of the party\u2019s astounding success in the recently-held Punjab by-polls, said it was \u201cunexpected the way people came out to lend their support to the party\u2019s narrative\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cWe had something based on truth which we put before the people and they responded spectacularly,\u201d Khan said. He also expressed confidence that Chaudhry Pervez Elahi, the party\u2019s candidate for the election, will win.<br \/>\nThe Punjab chief minister\u2019s election will take place shortly, which is expected to be a determining factor in the country\u2019s politics \u2014 as the province holds its separate significance.<br \/>\nThe PTI and PML-Q have fielded a joint candidate, Pervez Elahi, for the election and they have enough numbers to ensure his win \u2014 having 188 votes, which is two more than the required simple majority (186). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan Friday vowed to keep a close eye on Lahore \u2014 considered to be the political heart of Pakistan\u2019s largest province, Punjab. \u201cI will not keep away from Lahore. Next month, I will live here twice a week,\u201d he told a private television channel, from his residence in Zaman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-272832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hammad Azhar to have \u2018important role\u2019 in Punjab<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/hammad-azhar-to-have-important-role-in-punjab\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hammad Azhar to have \u2018important role\u2019 in Punjab\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LAHORE Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan Friday vowed to keep a close eye on Lahore \u2014 considered to be the political heart of Pakistan\u2019s largest province, Punjab. \u201cI will not keep away from Lahore. 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