{"id":58302,"date":"2024-02-10T02:36:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T02:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/mqm-p-invites-independent-candidates-to-join-party\/"},"modified":"2024-02-10T02:36:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T02:36:05","slug":"mqm-p-invites-independent-candidates-to-join-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/mqm-p-invites-independent-candidates-to-join-party\/","title":{"rendered":"MQM-P invites independent candidates to join party"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_87\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong>KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) has invited the independent candidates, who won the National Assembly (NA) seats, to join the party, calling for \u2018collective efforts\u2019 to challenge the feudal system together.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Talking to journalists, MQM-P Convener Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui called upon the independent candidates to decide their conscience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not have a briefcase but a brief statement\u201d, he said, pointing out that a change can only will not come through slogans but legislation.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"MQM Leader Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui Media Talk | Elections 2024 | 9 February 2024\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tj-06UMiTk0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Thanking the people of Karachi and Hyderabad for supporting MQM-P, Khalid Maqbool said despite the obstacles, the mandate of both cities was handed over to citizens. \u201cOur victory is tantamount to success of the people and the country,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>It is pertinent to mention here that MQM-P has so far secured 14 National Assembly (NA) seats from Karachi and Hyderabad.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, MQM-P leader Mustafa Kamal asked Jamat-e-Islami (JI) to end its \u2018false mandate\u2019 in Karachi, calling the party an \u2018occupied force\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>He vowed to end the \u2018fake local government system\u2019 and bring a new one, asking JI to hand over the city to MQM-P.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"rocketlazyloadscript\">\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n    FB.init({\n      appId      : '161345524510473',\n      cookie     : true,\n      xfbml      : true,\n      version    : 'v3.0'\n    });\n    FB.AppEvents.logPageView();   \n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) has invited the independent candidates, who won the National Assembly (NA) seats, to join the party, calling for \u2018collective efforts\u2019 to challenge the feudal system together. Talking to journalists, MQM-P Convener Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui called upon the independent candidates to decide their conscience. \u201cWe do not have a briefcase but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58303,"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:\/\/arynews.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Untitled-1-94.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58302","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=58302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}