{"id":75551,"date":"2024-03-26T09:13:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T09:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/ppp-says-opposition-in-kp-to-spring-surprise-in-senate-polls-as-jui-fs-talha-mahmood-joins-party\/"},"modified":"2024-03-26T09:13:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T09:13:04","slug":"ppp-says-opposition-in-kp-to-spring-surprise-in-senate-polls-as-jui-fs-talha-mahmood-joins-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/ppp-says-opposition-in-kp-to-spring-surprise-in-senate-polls-as-jui-fs-talha-mahmood-joins-party\/","title":{"rendered":"PPP says opposition in KP to spring \u2018surprise\u2019 in Senate polls as JUI-F\u2019s Talha Mahmood joins party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>PPP Central Information Secretary Faisal Karim Kundi on Tuesday asserted that opposition parties in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa would spring a \u201csurprise\u201d in the upcoming Senate elections.<\/p>\n<p>He made the remarks while addressing a press conference in Islamabad with PPP General Secretary Nayyer Bukhari and former Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) senator Talha Mahmood \u2014 who announced that he would be joining the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as the oath (on reserved seats) is taken, opposition parties in KP will give a surprise in the Senate elections,\u201d Kundi said.<\/p>\n<p>The PPP leader also criticised the KP government for employing \u201cdelaying tactics\u201d in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1823842\/14-kp-mpas-elect-challenge-denial-of-oath-taking\">oath-taking of MPAs<\/a> on reserved seats. Noting that the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1821572\">denied reserved seats<\/a> by the Peshawar High Court, he said the PPP wanted the oath-taking to take place as soon as possible.<\/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\/1823842\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>He said the PTI-SIC was afraid that \u201cthey would lose many Senate seats\u201d if oaths were administered to women and minorities on reserved seats.<\/p>\n<p>The PPP leader stated that the PTI-SIC was violating the Constitution and law, urging KP Assembly Speaker Babar Saleem Swati to fulfil his constitutional role.<\/p>\n<p>Kundi further said there were reports of a \u201cforward bloc\u201d within the PTI-SIC in Punjab and that there were also rumours of the same happening in KP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am also hearing such voices in KP that there there may soon be a press conference, and a forward bloc may be announced,\u201d he said. Kundi further said that \u201cmore friends from KP\u201d were in contact with the party and would join it.<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"jui-fs-talha-mahmood-joins-ppp\" href=\"#jui-fs-talha-mahmood-joins-ppp\" class=\"heading-permalink\" aria-hidden=\"true\" title=\"Permalink\"\/>JUI-F\u2019s Talha Mahmood joins PPP<\/h2>\n<p>Meanwhile, former JUI-F senator Mahmood announced in the same press conference that he was joining the PPP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my opinion, Pakistan right now immensely needs [\u2026] that I do some work on the national level. And on the national level, I think there is no other party other than the PPP in the current circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore, I have decided [\u2026] I have joined the PPP and they have shown me respect. The PPP\u2019s history is that they have stood by in difficult times and tried to play their role in improving Pakistan\u2019s situation,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  w-full  w-full  media--stretch  media--embed  \">\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"\ud83d\udd34\ud835\udc0b\ud835\udc08\ud835\udc15\ud835\udc04 | PPP Leaders important Media Talk | Dawn News Live\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GhZQ4Vj2aSU?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<\/figure>\n<p>Mahmood said that the PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari had invited him to join his party. The former religious affairs minister added President Asif Ali Zardari also held a \u201cdetailed meeting\u201d with him a week ago and invited him to join the PPP.<\/p>\n<p>Recalling that he had been a part of the JUI-F ever since he joined politics, Mahmood highlighted that Pakistan currently faced \u201cvarious\u201d challenges.<\/p>\n<p>The former senator, whose tenure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1820927\">ended<\/a> earlier this month, recalled that he had also served as the chairman of the Senate committees on finance and interior.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the past 18 years, I did not seek any privileges from the government of Pakistan. Neither did I take any salary nor any other kind of privilege,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Bukhari welcomed Mahmood to the party, saying, \u201cWe all, on our behalf and the party\u2019s, welcome Talha Mahmood <em>sahib<\/em> into the PPP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou expressed trust in the party leadership [and] considered the PPP a party that can steer the country out of the crises under current circumstances,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting Mahmood\u2019s role as a senator from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Bukhari said, \u201cWe hope that his role in the PPP will be very positive as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PPP Central Information Secretary Faisal Karim Kundi on Tuesday asserted that opposition parties in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa would spring a \u201csurprise\u201d in the upcoming Senate elections. He made the remarks while addressing a press conference in Islamabad with PPP General Secretary Nayyer Bukhari and former Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) senator Talha Mahmood \u2014 who announced that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75552,"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\/261157150bdcba8.png?r=130321","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75551","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=75551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}