{"id":54491,"date":"2023-04-21T00:09:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T15:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/20\/pakistan-punjab-elections-to-go-ahead-as-court-confirms-ruling"},"modified":"2023-04-21T00:09:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T15:09:09","slug":"pakistans-punjab-elections-to-go-ahead-as-court-confirms-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54491","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s Punjab elections to go ahead as court confirms ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme court stands by decision to order elections next month in move that seemingly pits judiciary against government<\/p>\n<p>The chief justice of Pakistan\u2019s supreme court has stood by its decision to order elections next month in its most populous province, a move that seemingly pits the judiciary against the country\u2019s government and the military establishment.<\/p>\n<p>The court has announced elections in Punjab for 14 May after declaring a delay to the vote unconstitutional and rejecting a petition from the defence ministry to instead hold elections simultaneously across the country later, amid deteriorating security and economic conditions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/20\/pakistan-punjab-elections-to-go-ahead-as-court-confirms-ruling\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme court stands by decision to order elections next month in move that seemingly pits judiciary against governmentThe chief justice of Pakistan\u2019s supreme court has stood by its decision to order elections next month in its most populous province, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"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":[359,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/54491","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\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54492,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54491\/revisions\/54492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}