{"id":28749,"date":"2018-07-21T23:49:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T13:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=28749"},"modified":"2018-07-21T23:49:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T13:49:38","slug":"saad-rafique-convinced-to-win-against-imran-on-july-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/saad-rafique-convinced-to-win-against-imran-on-july-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Saad Rafique \u2018convinced\u2019 to win against Imran on July 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nLAHORE : Former minister for railways Khawaja Saad Rafique has made a sweeping statement to \u2018clean sweep\u2019 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan in Lahore on July 25 \u2013the election day.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a press conference here, Rafique said he was sensing a major breakthrough in the polls on July 25.<\/p>\n<p>He also demanded the Election Commission of Pakistan to take notice of PTI\u2019s election expenses and investigate them.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that Khan was holding flop election rallies across the country, adding that the PTI chief would not turn up as triumphant in the elections.<\/p>\n<p>In continuation of the statement, the PML-N leader said PTI leadership should bar their workers from disturbing peace and electoral atmosphere in the country.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the people of Pakistan were ready to cast their votes on ideological basis. No one can break vote bank of PML-N by using abusive language, he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Saad Rafique is vying against PTI Chief Imran Khan in NA-131 in Lahore. And a tough contest is expected between the two bigwigs.<\/p>\n<p>On July 12, the Supreme Court had annulled the 2015 verdict of election tribunal which ordered re-election in Lahore\u2019s NA-125 \u2013 the seat won by Saad Rafique.<\/p>\n<p>A two-member bench of apex court led by Sheikh Azmat Saeed while accepting the petition of Saad Rafique ruled that irregularities did not occur in the constituency during general elections 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Rafique had challenged the verdict of election tribunal\u2019s judge Javed Rasheed who had annulled results of the NA-125 election and ordered a re-poll on the seat won by him. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE : Former minister for railways Khawaja Saad Rafique has made a sweeping statement to \u2018clean sweep\u2019 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan in Lahore on July 25 \u2013the election day. Addressing a press conference here, Rafique said he was sensing a major breakthrough in the polls on July 25. 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