{"id":17580,"date":"2025-08-27T00:05:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T00:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17580"},"modified":"2025-08-27T00:05:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T00:05:29","slug":"khawaja-asif-slams-pti-for-selective-approach-to-by-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17580","title":{"rendered":"Khawaja Asif slams PTI for &#8216;selective approach&#8217; to by-polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has accused Imran Khan&#8217;s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) of adopting double standards for &#8220;shying away&#8221; from the upcoming by-elections.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet on X, the defence minister criticised the PTI leadership, saying the party was confident of manipulating results in K-P due to its control over the provincial government, but feared defeat in Punjab where, according to him, &#8220;the power of the people would prevail&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This is not an election but a game of convenience \u2014 where victory is assured, they contest; where defeat is inevitable, they boycott, the defence minister alleged.<\/p>\n<p>He further claimed that PTI was leaning on &#8220;rigging and administrative machinery&#8221; in K-P instead of relying on public trust, while in Punjab, it was &#8220;unwilling to face the people&#8217;s verdict&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Afraid of losing in Punjab and propped up by manipulation in K-P\u0097this is the true face of PTI&#8217;s politics, Asif said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has accused Imran Khan&#8217;s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) of adopting double standards for &#8220;shying away&#8221; from the upcoming by-elections. In a tweet on X, the defence minister criticised the PTI leadership, saying the party was confident of manipulating results in K-P due to its control over the provincial government, but feared defeat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}