{"id":35113,"date":"2018-06-24T12:14:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T12:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=35113"},"modified":"2018-06-24T12:14:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T12:14:33","slug":"hafiz-saeeds-son-son-in-law-to-contest-pakistan-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/hafiz-saeeds-son-son-in-law-to-contest-pakistan-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Hafiz Saeed\u2019s son, son-in-law to contest Pakistan elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Saeed\u2019s son and son-in-law will be contesting from Punjab province in the July 25 general elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Election Commission of Pakistan has accepted the nomination papers of Hafiz Talha Saeed and Hafiz Khalid Waleed for National Assembly seat-91 and National Assembly seat-133 respectively, the Dawn, quoted JuD\u2019s Deputy Information Secretary Ahmed Nadeem, as saying.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the two are among 265 candidates who have been fielded by the Jamaat-ud -Dawah for contesting the upcoming polls on the little-known Allah-o-Akbar Tehreek\u2019s ticket, registered with the Election Commission of Pakistan .<\/p>\n<p>The AAT was formed about 15 years ago and was registered with the ECP in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The JuD, a front for the Lashkar-e-Taiba terror outfit which carried out the 2008 Mumbai attack which claimed 166 lives, launched its political front Milli Muslim League (MML).<\/p>\n<p>The ECP had earlier rejected MML\u2019s application to register Saeed\u2019s political party on the Pakistan interior ministry\u2019s recommendation, saying that the \u201cMML has links with banned militant outfits\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to ECP in September last year, the interior ministry said the \u2018recent political activities of MML have been officially objected to at the diplomatic level\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The MML will put forward candidates from 80 NA and 185 provincial seats from across Pakistan, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>However, Punjab will remain the focus, where 50 NA and 152 provincial assembly candidates will be contesting from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Saeed\u2019s son and son-in-law will be contesting from Punjab province in the July 25 general elections. The Election Commission of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35113","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\/35113","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=35113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35115,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35113\/revisions\/35115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}