{"id":392332,"date":"2024-03-09T00:01:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T19:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=392332"},"modified":"2024-03-09T00:01:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T19:01:51","slug":"achakzai-demands-postponement-of-presidential-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/achakzai-demands-postponement-of-presidential-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Achakzai demands postponement of presidential elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Islamabad<br \/>\nMahmood Khan Achakzai, the chief of the Pashtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) and presidential candidate for the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC), has called for the postponement of Pakistan\u2019s presidential election, slated for Saturday.<br \/>\nThe development comes a day after the ruling coalition including the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) endorsed the Pakistan Peoples Party\u2019s (PPP) Asif Ali Zardari\u2019s nomination for the presidency.<br \/>\nApart from the joint presidential candidate, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani, MQM-P\u2019s Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, PML-N\u2019s Ishaq Dar, Azam Nazeer Tarar, Khawaja Asif, Khawaja Saad Rafique, PPPP\u2019s Yousaf Raza Gilani, Raza Rabbani, Raja Pervez Ashraf, Khurshid Shah and IPP Aleem Khan and Awn Chaudhry as well as several other politicians attended the dinner.<br \/>\nPrime Minister Shehbaz Sharif acknowledged that his government was facing immense challenges on various fronts, particularly the economy. Shehbaz said he has been taking briefings since he took oath and the numbers are alarming.<br \/>\nIn a letter addressed to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) today, Achakzai highlighted the issue of numerous vacant reserve seats in both national and provincial assemblies. He argued that proceeding with the election without filling these seats would violate the law and the Constitution.<br \/>\n\u201cThe election should be postponed until the electoral college is completed,\u201d Achakzai stated firmly in his letter to the ECP.<br \/>\nFurthermore, Achakzai revealed that the SIC has submitted an application to the Peshawar High Court regarding the matter of reserve seats. He expressed hopes for a fair decision from the court on this issue. 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The development comes a day after the ruling coalition including the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) endorsed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-392332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"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>Achakzai demands postponement of presidential elections<\/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\/achakzai-demands-postponement-of-presidential-elections\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Achakzai demands postponement of presidential elections\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad Mahmood Khan Achakzai, the chief of the Pashtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) and presidential candidate for the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC), has called for the postponement of Pakistan\u2019s presidential election, slated for Saturday. 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