{"id":66074,"date":"2024-03-01T04:54:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T04:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/pti-notifies-office-bearers-ahead-of-schedule-after-no-contest\/"},"modified":"2024-03-01T04:54:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T04:54:00","slug":"pti-notifies-office-bearers-ahead-of-schedule-after-no-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/pti-notifies-office-bearers-ahead-of-schedule-after-no-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"PTI notifies office bearers ahead of schedule after \u2018no contest\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>ISLAMABAD: In a late-night development, PTI announced that Barrister Gohar Ali Khan and Omar Ayub were elected the party\u2019s chairman and general secretary, respectively, after their opponents withdrew nomination papers.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, provincial presidents of Sindh, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapters were also announced. An election will now only be held to elect the Balochistan chapter president.<\/p>\n<p>In Balochistan, three candidates, Amin Khan Jogazai, Dawood Shah, and Munir Ahmed Baloch, will contest the election on March 3.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1816169\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>PTI was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1816239\/pti-to-hold-intra-party-polls-on-march-3\">set to hold<\/a> intra-party elections on March 3, for which a number of leaders submitted their nomination papers as panels.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"blockquote-level-1\">\n<p>Gohar, Omar to be chariman and secy general, respectively, after their rivals \u2018withdraw\u2019 papers<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But a majority of those leaders withdrew nomination papers only two days before the election, PTI\u2019s Federal Election Commi\u00adssioner Raoof Hasan told <em>Dawn<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In the absence of opponents on most seats, he was left with no option but to notify the unopposed winners.<\/p>\n<p>According to a notice issued by Mr Hasan and seen by <em>Dawn<\/em>, there was only one candidate each for the posts of chairman; secretary general; and Punjab, KP and Sindh presidents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere shall be no polling for the stated five positions. Polling shall take place only in Quetta for the election of President Balochistan Panel,\u201d the notice said, adding that the federal election commissioner will declare the final result on March 3.<\/p>\n<p>As per the final list, signed by Mr Hasan and available with <em>Dawn<\/em>, Yasmin Rashid, Ali Amin Gandapur and Haleem Adil Sheikh were elected presidents of PTI\u2019s Punjab, KP and Sindh chapters, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>For the March 3 election, Mr Gohar was the only leader to have submitted his candidature for the top post. Mr Ayub, along with a 15-member panel, had submitted nomination papers for the position of general secretary.<\/p>\n<p>In Punjab, Dr Rashid, who is currently in prison, was Mr Khan\u2019s nominee to lead the party\u2019s provincial chapter. So was Mr Sheikh in Sindh, Dr Baloch in Balochistan and Mr Gandapur in KP.<\/p>\n<p>The victory of Mr Khan-backed candidates was guaranteed anyway, but to meet ECP\u2019s requirement and avoid any unopposed election, rival panels also submitted nomination papers.<\/p>\n<p><em>Published in Dawn, March 1st, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: In a late-night development, PTI announced that Barrister Gohar Ali Khan and Omar Ayub were elected the party\u2019s chairman and general secretary, respectively, after their opponents withdrew nomination papers. Similarly, provincial presidents of Sindh, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapters were also announced. An election will now only be held to elect the Balochistan chapter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66075,"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:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2024\/03\/010816323608637.png?r=082218","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66074","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=66074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}