{"id":15817,"date":"2022-07-22T06:25:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T06:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/?p=15817"},"modified":"2022-07-22T06:25:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T06:25:33","slug":"zardari-meets-shujaat-in-last-ditch-effort-to-garner-support-for-cm-punjab-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/?p=15817&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Zardari meets Shujaat in last-ditch effort to garner support for CM Punjab poll"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Mishaal Arshad C.M Underground News<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Pervez Elahi made it clear that \u2018he is Imran Khan\u2019s candidate for the Punjab CM elections\u2019, says source.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Zardari telephones PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif and discusses making Pervez Elahi a joint candidate of PML-N and PML-Q.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Rana Sanaullah reacts saying that Pervez Elahi would not be the joint candidate.<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-cnvs-separator-id-1658470891952\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari last night again met PML-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain in a bid to woo him to support PML-N\u2019s candidate Hamza Shahbaz,\u00a0<em>Geo News<\/em>\u00a0reported Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The political temperature in Punjab continued to mount as the clock ticks on the crucial Punjab assembly session for the chief minister\u2019s election, taking place this afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A crucial session of the Punjab Assembly will be held at 4pm today (Friday) for the election of the Punjab CM.\u00a0The clear victory of the PTI in the Punjab by-polls had turned around the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.geo.tv\/latest\/428233-what-is-punjab-assemblys-number-game-after-pti-victory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">number game in the Punjab Assembly<\/a>, with Chaudhry Pervez Elahi now most likely to replace Hamza Shahbaz Sharif as the new chief minister of the province in the coming days.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite two earlier meetings with Chaudhry Shujaat, Zardari last night again visited Zahoor palace and stayed there for hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The News<\/em>\u00a0reported, citing sources that the former president had sent a message for a meeting to Pervez Elahi and Moonis Elahi. However, they both refused to meet him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sources close to Pervez Elahi said that the Punjab Assembly speaker had made it clear that he was Imran Khan\u2019s candidate for the Punjab CM elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, sources informed about the matter said that Zardari had contacted PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif and discussed the current political situation ahead of the Punjab CM election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per sources, in a telephonic conversation with Nawaz Sharif, the former president suggested making Pervez Elahi a joint candidate of PML-N and PML-Q for the Punjab CM\u2019s slot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah dispelled the news reports, saying that Pervez Elahi would not be the joint candidate of PML-N and PML-Q for the CM Punjab election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is just a rumour, there is nothing true about it. Hamza Shahbaz is the only candidate of PML-N and coalition partner and we are all hopeful of his success,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mishaal Arshad C.M Underground News Pervez Elahi made it clear that \u2018he is Imran Khan\u2019s candidate for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_appearance_grid":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,71,38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-important-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-pakistan","10":"cs-entry","11":"cs-video-wrap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15823,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15817\/revisions\/15823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}