{"id":36374,"date":"2023-12-17T00:35:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T00:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/ppp-to-begin-election-campaign-from-dec-27-daily-times\/"},"modified":"2023-12-17T00:35:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T00:35:03","slug":"ppp-to-begin-election-campaign-from-dec-27-daily-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/ppp-to-begin-election-campaign-from-dec-27-daily-times\/","title":{"rendered":"PPP to begin election campaign from Dec 27 &#8211; Daily Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1115898 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/dailytimes.com.pk\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/07\/2165711-PakistanvotervoteelectionsAFP-1582862171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"450\"\/>2165711-PakistanvotervoteelectionsAFP-1582862171Following the issuance of election schedule for general polls 2024, the Pakistan People\u2019s Party (PPP) on Saturday announced that it would begin election campaign from December 27 with a \u2018no hate\u2019 policy.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a press conference, PPP leader Sharjeel Memon said that the party plans to officially launch its election campaign with a mass gathering in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh on December 27 \u2013 the day PPP supremo and ex-premier Benazir Bhutto\u2019s was assassinated.<\/p>\n<p>The former provincial minister made these remarks following the party\u2019s board meeting held under the chairmanship of PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, Sharjeel Memon said, the participants reviewed the country\u2019s political situation after the announcement of the election schedule \u201cThe PPP is the only party that stresses the need for holding timely elections in the country,\u201d the PPP leader said, castigating other political parties for \u2018seemingly running away from the polls\u2019. \u201cBilawal Bhutto has made it clear that PPP runs its campaign on positivity, not negativity. We will have to bury the old ways of politics with an end hate policy,\u201d Sharjeel Memon added.<\/p>\n<p>However, he regretted, some political leaders were still demanding revenge while ones who wanted to take action against their rivals are sitting in jail themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The former minister said that Bilawal made it clear that the country\u2019s problem isn\u2019t taking revenge from one\u2019s opponents, but the redressal of the nation\u2019s issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPPP is the only political party, who are bringing people together,\u201d he said, adding that the need of the hour is for Pakistanis to unite, which will lead to the country\u2019s development. Taking over the presser, Senator Sherry Rehman demanded level playing field for the party and the conduct of elections on the designated date without any delay. On Friday, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) issued the election schedule for the upcoming February 8 general polls in compliance with the Supreme Court (SC) order issued earlier.<\/p>\n<p>According to a notification issued by the electoral watchdog, the public notice would be issued by the Returning Officer (RO) on December 19 with the dates for filing nominations from Dec 20-22.<\/p>\n<p>The ECP, in its notification, stated that the names of the nominated candidates would be published on Dec 23 while the last date for scrutiny of their nomination papers would be from Dec 24-30. The development came hours after Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan ordered the ECP to announce the election schedule by tonight as it suspended a Lahore High Court (LHC) order on the appointment of returning officers (ROs) and district returning officers (DROs) from the bureaucracy, which cast uncertainty over holding of general polls. The Pakistan Supreme Court also issued a contempt of court notice to Barrister Umair Niazi \u2013 who filed the petition on behalf of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) \u2013 seeking an explanation as to why contempt proceedings should not be initiated against him.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2165711-PakistanvotervoteelectionsAFP-1582862171Following the issuance of election schedule for general polls 2024, the Pakistan People\u2019s Party (PPP) on Saturday announced that it would begin election campaign from December 27 with a \u2018no hate\u2019 policy. Addressing a press conference, PPP leader Sharjeel Memon said that the party plans to officially launch its election campaign with a mass gathering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dailytimes.com.pk\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/07\/2165711-PakistanvotervoteelectionsAFP-1582862171.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}