{"id":60832,"date":"2024-02-16T14:27:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T14:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/if-pti-founder-is-a-thief-we-all-are-thieves-pir-pagara\/"},"modified":"2024-02-16T14:27:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T14:27:04","slug":"if-pti-founder-is-a-thief-we-all-are-thieves-pir-pagara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/if-pti-founder-is-a-thief-we-all-are-thieves-pir-pagara\/","title":{"rendered":"If PTI founder is a thief, we all are thieves: Pir Pagara"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">HYDERABAD: Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) Chief Pir Sibghatullah Shah Rashdi, popularly known as Pir Pagara, said that the General Elections 2024 were \u2018sold\u2019 three months back, ARY News reported.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Addressing GDA\u2019s protest demonstration against \u2018rigging\u2019 in the elections at Hyderabad Bypass, Pir Pagara said that he did not hold election campaign as the elections were already \u2018sold\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"&quot;Meri Nazar mein Bani PTI Chor nahi hai&quot;, Pir Sibghat Ullah Shah ka do tok bayan\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g2Suf3v7A7A?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><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThis elections showed that no party represents the centre as no one emerged as a leader at the national level,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yYPCOlPpH3s\">he added<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Pir Pagara said that the GDA\u2019s protest is not against any party or institution but against \u2018rigging\u2019 in the elections. The GDA chief said that in the current circumstances, the coalition government would not last for more than 10 months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Pir Pagara said that a large number of youth came out on February 8 and voted for Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) backed independent candidates across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"&quot;Election Nateeja Bikk Chuka Tha&quot; Pir Sibghat Ullah Shah ka Election se mutaliq bara bayan\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yYPCOlPpH3s?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><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cNo one was expecting the independent candidates to secure votes in massive numbers but for the first time in Pakistan\u2019s history independent aspirants got the majority,\u201d the GDA chief said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Pir Pagara said that the PTI was \u2018expelled\u2019 from the electoral process on the basis of Intra-party elections. \u201cI don\u2019t consider Imran Khan a thief. If he is a thief, we all are thieves too,\u201d the GDA chief said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the occasion, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Karachi Chief Hafiz Naeemur Rehman said that the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) could not receive even 100,000 votes from the city yet it was \u2018awarded\u2019 15 National Assembly seats.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"Sindh Mein PTI, Jamaat e Islami Ke Mandate Par Daka Mara, Hafiz Naeem\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RXnUXKiJ5Do?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>\u201cPTI and JI were not given even a single National Assembly seat from Karachi despite securing more than one million votes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Hafiz Naeemur Rehman said that his party has Forms 45 of all constituencies, according to which the JI and the PTI clinched the majority of seats from Karachi.<\/p>\n<p>Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam leader Rashid Soomro said that demanded from the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to declare the polls in Sindh null and void. He asked the ECP to hold \u2018transparent\u2019 elections in the province.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Pir Pagara Sahib permits us, we will not let the newly elected members from Sindh take the oath.<\/p>\n<p>GDA leader Fehmida Mirza said that all political parties of Sindh that are \u2018affected\u2019 by rigging in the elections should form alliacne at Sindh level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are commendable for devising a joint strategy,\u201d she added.<\/p>\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>HYDERABAD: Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) Chief Pir Sibghatullah Shah Rashdi, popularly known as Pir Pagara, said that the General Elections 2024 were \u2018sold\u2019 three months back, ARY News reported. Addressing GDA\u2019s protest demonstration against \u2018rigging\u2019 in the elections at Hyderabad Bypass, Pir Pagara said that he did not hold election campaign as the elections were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60833,"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-1-164.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60832","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\/60832","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=60832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}