{"id":516869,"date":"2025-11-27T08:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=516869"},"modified":"2025-11-27T08:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:05:12","slug":"haripur-defeat-pushes-pti-to-rethink-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/haripur-defeat-pushes-pti-to-rethink-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Haripur defeat pushes PTI to rethink strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> ISLAMABAD<br \/>\nThe PTI leadership is disappointed with the allegedly \u201cmanaged\u201d but unexpected defeat in the Haripur by-election, a key constituency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where the party holds provincial power.<br \/>\nAccording to party sources, the loss has triggered serious introspection within the party\u2019s top ranks, prompting discussions on whether its long-standing confrontational posture has narrowed its political space even now in its stronghold \u2014 KP \u2014 rather than expanding it. The leadership is now said to be considering a move toward dialogue-centric politics. Senior party leaders, sources said, are reviewing the Haripur setback and believe that the political space PTI has been struggling to regain is \u201cshrinking even within the KP\u201d, despite the party running the provincial government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD The PTI leadership is disappointed with the allegedly \u201cmanaged\u201d but unexpected defeat in the Haripur by-election, a key constituency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where the party holds provincial power. According to party sources, the loss has triggered serious introspection within the party\u2019s top ranks, prompting discussions on whether its long-standing confrontational posture has narrowed its [&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-516869","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>Haripur defeat pushes PTI to rethink strategy<\/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\/haripur-defeat-pushes-pti-to-rethink-strategy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Haripur defeat pushes PTI to rethink strategy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ISLAMABAD The PTI leadership is disappointed with the allegedly \u201cmanaged\u201d but unexpected defeat in the Haripur by-election, a key constituency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where the party holds provincial power. 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