{"id":309069,"date":"2023-01-23T08:46:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T03:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=309069"},"modified":"2023-01-23T08:46:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T03:46:26","slug":"mqm-p-sees-political-engineering-behind-karachi-mayor-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/mqm-p-sees-political-engineering-behind-karachi-mayor-election\/","title":{"rendered":"MQM-P sees \u2018political engineering\u2019 behind Karachi mayor election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) has said that the Karachi mayor is not being chosen from the people\u2019s mandate but by political bargaining. Speaking at a press conference alongside other party leaders in Hyderabad on Sunday, Convener Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui said that the way recent local government (LG) elections were conducted, \u201cno example could be found of such polls in history\u201d, adding that the MQM-P had defeated the conspiracy of electoral fraud by withdrawing from the LG elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe feudal system is threatened by our struggle and we refuse to recognise it. The MQM-P has decided to struggle for people\u2019s rights and for that it has chosen the path of demonstrations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr Siddiqui further said that through the pre-poll rigging, attempts were made to prove the port city is someone else\u2019s stronghold and \u201cwe had also filed petitions regarding the electoral tampering in Sukkur and Mirpur\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to say that in the urban dwellings, \u201cthe conspiracy is hatched to show the number of people less by census and they tried to present the transformed demography of Karachi, Hyderabad and Sukkur in the census\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) has said that the Karachi mayor is not being chosen from the people\u2019s mandate but by political bargaining. Speaking at a press conference alongside other party leaders in Hyderabad on Sunday, Convener Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui said that the way recent local government (LG) elections were conducted, \u201cno example [&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-309069","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>MQM-P sees \u2018political engineering\u2019 behind Karachi mayor election<\/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\/mqm-p-sees-political-engineering-behind-karachi-mayor-election\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MQM-P sees \u2018political engineering\u2019 behind Karachi mayor election\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Karachi: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) has said that the Karachi mayor is not being chosen from the people\u2019s mandate but by political bargaining. 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