{"id":100731,"date":"2017-07-28T13:19:31","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T07:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=100731"},"modified":"2017-07-28T16:57:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T11:27:51","slug":"pak-sc-disqualifies-pm-sharif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/pak-sc-disqualifies-pm-sharif\/","title":{"rendered":"Pak PM Sharif quits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan&#8217;s Supreme Court on Friday disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif over long-running corruption allegations, a highly anticipated decision that forces him out of office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;He is disqualified as a member of the parliament so he has ceased to be holding the office of Prime Minister,&#8221; Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan told the packed courtroom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100733 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Nawaz-SC-pics.jpg\" alt=\"Nawaz-SC-pics\" width=\"650\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The court also asked the national anti-corruption bureau to launch a further probe into the allegations against Sharif, which stem from the Panama Papers leak last year linking the premier&#8217;s family to lucrative offshore businesses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No Pakistani prime minister has ever completed a full five-year term.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is the second time in Pakistan&#8217;s 70-year history that the Supreme Court has disqualified a sitting prime minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan&#8217;s Supreme Court on Friday disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif over long-running corruption allegations, a highly anticipated decision that forces him out of office. &#8220;He is disqualified as a member of the parliament so he has ceased to be holding the office of Prime Minister,&#8221; Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan told the packed courtroom. The court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[40617,50609,10082,50607,50608,11141],"class_list":["post-100731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-corruption-allegations","tag-disqualified","tag-nawaz-sharif","tag-pakistan-supreme-court","tag-panama-papers","tag-prime-minister"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/nawaz.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}