{"id":391582,"date":"2024-03-05T17:24:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T12:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=391582"},"modified":"2024-03-05T17:24:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T12:24:56","slug":"akbar-s-babar-calls-pti-intraparty-polls-a-farce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/akbar-s-babar-calls-pti-intraparty-polls-a-farce\/","title":{"rendered":"Akbar S. Babar calls PTI intraparty polls a \u2018farce\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PTI founding member Akbar S. Babar has raised concerns over the party\u2019s recently held intraparty elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy do the same faces emerge every time?\u201d he asked, alleging that the internal polls were merely a \u201cdrama\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA party that claims in intraparty elections that they have around 850,000 members [\u2026] out of them only 940 cast their votes, which means that 0.11 per cent party members took part in the elections,\u201d Babar claimed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not accept this deception in any way,\u201d he said, adding that he has approached the Election Commission of Pakistan to revoke the basic membership of party leaders who have joined the Sunni Ittehad Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTI founding member Akbar S. Babar has raised concerns over the party\u2019s recently held intraparty elections. \u201cWhy do the same faces emerge every time?\u201d he asked, alleging that the internal polls were merely a \u201cdrama\u201d. \u201cA party that claims in intraparty elections that they have around 850,000 members [\u2026] out of them only 940 cast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3592],"class_list":{"0":"post-391582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-akbar-s-babar"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Akbar S. 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