{"id":53733,"date":"2023-03-23T23:14:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T14:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/23\/pakistan-delays-punjab-election-despite-supreme-court-ruling"},"modified":"2023-03-23T23:14:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T14:14:21","slug":"pakistan-delays-punjab-election-despite-supreme-court-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53733","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan delays Punjab election despite supreme court ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former prime minister Imran Khan says election commission\u2019s move is  violation of Pakistan\u2019s constitution<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan has postponed elections in Punjab, the country\u2019s most populated province, in a move that spurns a recent supreme court ruling and is likely to cause more sparks between supporters of former prime minister Imran Khan and the government.<\/p>\n<p>In an eight-page order seen by the Guardian, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) claimed that \u201cit is not possible to hold and organise the elections honestly, justly, fairly, in a peaceful manner\u201d, blaming security threats and financial problems. It said it would be unable to provide a \u201clevel playing field\u201d to all political parties as a result.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/23\/pakistan-delays-punjab-election-despite-supreme-court-ruling\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former prime minister Imran Khan says election commission\u2019s move is  violation of Pakistan\u2019s constitutionPakistan has postponed elections in Punjab, the country\u2019s most populated province, in a move that spurns a recent supreme court ruling and is likel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1735,359,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benazir-bhutto","category-imran-khan","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53734,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53733\/revisions\/53734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}