{"id":26394,"date":"2025-08-07T11:08:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T11:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/?p=26394"},"modified":"2025-08-07T11:08:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T11:08:37","slug":"pti-withdraws-from-upcoming-by-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/?p=26394","title":{"rendered":"PTI Withdraws from Upcoming By-Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Thursday announced it would boycott the by-elections to be held on the seats that fell vacant after the disqualification of its legislators following their convictions in the May 9 cases. The party directed its candidates to withdraw their nomination papers, saying not a single by-election would be contested. On the other hand, sources in the PTI told that the party would, however, contest the by-election to be held in NA-129 after the seat fell vacant due to the death of former Punjab governor Mian Muhammad Azhar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Thursday announced it would boycott the by-elections to be held on the seats that fell vacant after the disqualification of its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26395,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news-updates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}