{"id":51332,"date":"2024-01-23T08:56:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T08:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/fawad-announces-boycott-of-general-elections-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2024-01-23T08:56:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T08:56:08","slug":"fawad-announces-boycott-of-general-elections-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/fawad-announces-boycott-of-general-elections-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Fawad announces boycott of general elections | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nISLAMABAD:
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Former information minister Fawad Chaudhry on Monday announced that he and his \u201cgroup\u201d would completely boycott the upcoming general elections, terming the electoral process fake.<\/p>\n

The imprisoned politician made the remarks in a handwritten letter addressed to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), a copy f which was posted on his official social media platform X account. In the letter, Fawad stated, \u201cUnder these circumstances, my group and I announce a complete boycott of these elections.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0It was not immediately clear which group he was referring to.<\/p>\n

Read<\/strong>:\u00a0Tribunals reject Fawad, Murad’s nomination papers appeal<\/a><\/p>\n

Fawad was arrested from Islamabad on Nov 4 in a corruption case and has been in custody since.
In his letter, Fawad recalled that the ECP had failed to hold elections in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab last year after the respective provincial assemblies had been dissolved.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe aim of elections is to provide the public with the authority to \u2018choose\u2019,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

Terming it a \u201cwaste of time\u201d to demand resignations from the ECP officials, Fawad asserted that the ECP had \u201cfailed horribly in fulfilling its responsibilities\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cA government formed through such elections will not only be deprived of a moral but legal mandate as well, and would not at all have the capability to fight the country\u2019s crises and challenges,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD: Former information minister Fawad Chaudhry on Monday announced that he and his \u201cgroup\u201d would completely boycott the upcoming general elections, terming the electoral process fake. The imprisoned politician made the remarks in a handwritten letter addressed to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), a copy f which was posted on his official social media […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"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:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/2584298-fawad-1703924612-449-640x4801703926805-0\/2584298-fawad-1703924612-449-640x4801703926805-0.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t