{"id":15973,"date":"2022-07-23T06:04:54","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T06:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/?p=15973"},"modified":"2022-07-23T10:38:19","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T10:38:19","slug":"pti-stages-country-wide-protest-over-cm-punjab-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/?p=15973&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"PTI stages country-wide protest over CM Punjab election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Mishaal Arshad C.M Underground News<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following PTI chairman Imran Khan\u2019s call over Hamza Shahbaz\u2019s victory in the Punjab Assembly, party workers staged country-wide protests against the CM Punjab election<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a crucial Punjab Assembly session on Friday,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnegn.geo.tv\/latest\/429104-hamza-shahbaz-vs-pervez-elahi-punjab-cm-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PML-N\u2019s candidate Hamza Shahbaz retained<\/a>\u00a0the post of the Punjab chief minister against Punjab Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Pervez Elahi through a three-vote victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Punjab Assembly Deputy Speaker Dost Mazari, citing Article 63A of the Constitution, rejected 10 votes cast by PML-Q members. As a result, Hamza received 179 votes, while Elahi, who was backed by the PTI, managed to bag 176 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, after Hamza Shahbaz\u2019s \u2018surprising\u2019 victory in the Punjab Assembly,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.geo.tv\/latest\/429253-pti-chairman-imran-khan-speaks-to-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PTI Chairman Imran Khan asked the masses<\/a>\u00a0to take to the streets tonight against the deputy speaker\u2019s ruling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following Imran Khan\u2019s call party workers reached Lahore\u2019s Liberty Chowk and protested against Mazari\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Islamabad also, workers launched a protest at D-Chowk and raised slogans against the government. Meanwhile, PTI workers in Karachi also took to the streets and registered their protest at Shahra-e-Faisal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commuters faced traffic jams from Nursery to Baloch Colony bridge owing to the protest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ur\" dir=\"rtl\">\u0634\u0627\u0628\u0627\u0634 \u06a9\u0631\u0627\u0686\u06cc! <br>\u0686\u06be\u0627 \u06af\u0626\u06d2 \u06c1\u0648 \u0645\u0627\u0634\u0627\u0627\u0644\u0644\u0651\u06c1 !<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AllEyesOnSupremeCourt?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AllEyesOnSupremeCourt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S4jmLB3iEd\">pic.twitter.com\/S4jmLB3iEd<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Ali Haider Zaidi (@AliHZaidiPTI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AliHZaidiPTI\/status\/1550570322881019906?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Peshawar\u2019s Husht Nigar area, PTI workers launched a protest and closed the roads after setting tires on fire. Party supporters also raised slogans against the CM Punjab election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Rawalpindi also, PTI supporters gathered at Chandni Chowk and chanted slogans against Deputy Speaker PA Dost Mazari\u2019s ruling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the rejection of PML-Q votes during the CM Punjab election, the protests were also held in Multan and Faislabad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ur\" dir=\"rtl\">\u0644\u0628\u0631\u0679\u06cc \u0686\u0648\u06a9 \u0639\u0648\u0627\u0645\u06cc \u0645\u06cc\u0646\u0688\u06cc\u0679 \u06a9\u06d2 \u062f\u0641\u0627\u0639 \u0645\u06cc\u06ba \u06a9\u06be\u0691\u0627 \u06c1\u06d2 \u0627\u0633 \u0648\u0642\u062a\u06d4 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rHTCkTMdbq\">pic.twitter.com\/rHTCkTMdbq<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Hammad Azhar (@Hammad_Azhar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hammad_Azhar\/status\/1550565551017058304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>PTI workers chanted slogans against Dost Mazari and in favour of Imran Khan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, during a protest in Hyderabad, PTI workers gathered around a PPP worker\u2019s vehicle which led to the confrontation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both, PPP and PTI workers came face to face which caused tension in the area, however, police dispersed the workers and put security on high alert.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mishaal Arshad C.M Underground News Following PTI chairman Imran Khan\u2019s call over Hamza Shahbaz\u2019s victory in the Punjab&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15975,"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-15973","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\/15973","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=15973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15979,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15973\/revisions\/15979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}