{"id":290915,"date":"2022-10-23T07:16:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T02:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=290915"},"modified":"2022-10-23T07:16:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T02:16:11","slug":"no-backdoor-talks-underway-for-early-elections-khawaja-asif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/no-backdoor-talks-underway-for-early-elections-khawaja-asif\/","title":{"rendered":"No backdoor talks underway for early elections: Khawaja Asif"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> ISLAMABAD<br \/>\nDefence Minister Khawaja Asif has said that no backdoor talks are going for the early elections in the country.<br \/>\nTalking to the media on Saturday, he said that the government had neither held a backdoor meeting for holding the elections in March and April nor it had established a link with the PTI.<br \/>\n\u201cThe elections will be held on time. Under the law, the army chief will be appointed next month,\u201d he maintained.<br \/>\nHe said that a lot has to be surfaced in the Toshakhana. \u201cIt is surprising that a bbig cheater had been prime minister of the country,\u201d he added.<br \/>\nThe minister said that Chaudhary Pervaiz Elahi will not be able to support Imran Khan in the coming day. \u201cThe Punjab Assembly will not continue for a long period,\u201d he added.<br \/>\nTalking to the media on Saturday, he said that the government had neither held a backdoor meeting for holding the elections in March and April nor it had established a link with the PTI.<br \/>\n\u201cThe elections will be held on time. Under the law, the army chief will be appointed next month,\u201d he maintained.<br \/>\nHe said that a lot has to be surfaced in the Toshakhana. \u201cIt is surprising that a bbig cheater had been prime minister of the country,\u201d he added.<br \/>\nThe minister said that Chaudhary Pervaiz Elahi will not be able to support Imran Khan in the coming day.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Punjab Assembly will not continue for a long period,\u201d he added.<br \/>\nHe said that the person who accomplished the removal of the FATF should be given its credit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has said that no backdoor talks are going for the early elections in the country. Talking to the media on Saturday, he said that the government had neither held a backdoor meeting for holding the elections in March and April nor it had established a link with the PTI. \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11197,5290,2867],"class_list":{"0":"post-290915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news","8":"tag-backdoor-talks","9":"tag-early-elections","10":"tag-khawaja-asif"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>No backdoor talks underway for early elections: Khawaja Asif<\/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\/no-backdoor-talks-underway-for-early-elections-khawaja-asif\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No backdoor talks underway for early elections: Khawaja Asif\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ISLAMABAD Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has said that no backdoor talks are going for the early elections in the country. 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