{"id":5142,"date":"2023-03-03T09:08:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T09:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/?p=5142"},"modified":"2023-03-03T09:08:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T09:08:35","slug":"ecp-rejects-pml-ns-request-to-remove-similar-party-symbols-from-voting-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/?p=5142","title":{"rendered":"ECP rejects PML-N\u2019s request to remove similar party symbols from voting paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has turned down the request made by the Pakistan Muslim League &#8211; Nawaz (PML-N) for removing the election symbols of other parties from the list that are similar to their own party symbol.<br \/>\nPML-N had requested the ECP to remove symbols of goat, deer, cow, and bear from the voting paper, stating that these symbols resemble their party symbol of \u201clion.\u201d<br \/>\nThe party claimed that voters might face difficulty in identifying their party symbol while casting their vote, which could lead to an unfavorable situation for the party.<br \/>\nThe ECP, however, rejected PML-N\u2019s request, stating that there was no ground for such a demand.<br \/>\nThe commission further added that all parties were given equal opportunity to select their symbols, and therefore, the symbols of goat, deer, cow, and bear could not be removed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has turned down the request made by the Pakistan Muslim League &#8211; Nawaz (PML-N) for removing the election symbols&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5143,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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-5142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news-updates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5142","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=5142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}