{"id":32364,"date":"2018-05-28T11:31:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T11:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=32364"},"modified":"2018-05-28T11:31:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T11:31:37","slug":"pakistans-former-president-asif-ali-zardari-to-contest-in-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/pakistans-former-president-asif-ali-zardari-to-contest-in-general-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s former president Asif Ali Zardari to contest in general election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former president and Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has said he will contest for a National Assembly seat from his native town Nawabshah in the upcoming general elections, making his return to the electoral and parliamentary politics after a gap of 24 years.<\/p>\n<p>The 62-year-old leader made the announcement during an Iftar party hosted by Sindh chief minister Syed Murad Ali Shah at the chief minister\u2019s House in Karachi on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>He has been elected as Member of National Assembly from Karachi\u2019s area of Lyari in 1990, and from Nawabshah in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Zardari said he could have chosen Lyari as his electoral constituency but later decided in favour of the constituency from his native town.<\/p>\n<p>He also predicted that no party will hold the majority in the next assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Zardari served as the 11th President of Pakistan from 2008 to 2013.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former president and Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has said he will contest for a National Assembly seat from his native town Nawabshah in the upcoming general elections, making his return to the electoral and parliamentary politics after a gap of 24 years. The 62-year-old leader made the announcement during an Iftar party [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32366,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32364\/revisions\/32366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}