{"id":23897,"date":"2023-06-20T09:24:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T09:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/?p=23897"},"modified":"2023-06-20T09:24:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T09:24:01","slug":"ecp-to-charge-imran-aides-in-contempt-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/2023\/06\/20\/ecp-to-charge-imran-aides-in-contempt-case\/","title":{"rendered":"ECP to charge Imran, aides in contempt case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD:<\/strong>\u00a0The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has announced its decision to proceed with charges against Imran Khan, the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) party, and former ministers Fawad Chaudhry and Asad Umar in a contempt case.<\/p>\n<p>ECP member from Sindh Nisar Durrani confirmed that all three political leaders would be indicted on July 11 and directed them to appear before the panel in a personal capacity.<\/p>\n<p>During the hearing, Durrani inquired about the attendance of all parties, to which PTI lawyer Faisal Chaudhry responded that he had not received any such order.<\/p>\n<p>However, the ECP member dismissed the PTI\u2019s reservations regarding the case and proceeded with the decision to indict the three political leaders.<\/p>\n<p>The ECP initiated contempt proceedings against Khan, Umar, and Chaudhry based on statements they made against the electoral body and the chief election commissioner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD:\u00a0The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has announced its decision to proceed with charges against Imran Khan, the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) party, and former ministers Fawad Chaudhry and Asad Umar in a contempt case. ECP member from Sindh Nisar Durrani confirmed that all three political leaders would be indicted on July 11 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"category-pakistan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23899,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23897\/revisions\/23899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}