{"id":1143158,"date":"2026-01-08T18:27:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T13:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.app.com.pk\/national\/pml-ns-abid-sher-ali-apologizes-to-ecp-over-ballot-secrecy-case\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T18:27:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T13:27:46","slug":"pml-ns-abid-sher-ali-apologizes-to-ecp-over-ballot-secrecy-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/pml-ns-abid-sher-ali-apologizes-to-ecp-over-ballot-secrecy-case\/","title":{"rendered":"PML-N\u2019s Abid Sher Ali apologizes to ECP over ballot secrecy case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Jan 08 (APP): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Chaudhry Abid Sher Ali on Thursday tendered an unconditional apology to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in a case relating to violation of ballot secrecy during the Faisalabad by-election.<\/p>\n<p>A three-member ECP bench, headed by Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja, heard the matter. Abid Sher Ali appeared before the Commission to respond to the proceeding.<\/p>\n<p>His counsel informed the bench that the PML-N leader had submitted a written apology, clarifying that Sher Ali had not uploaded the video on social media. The lawyer reiterated that the apology was unconditional.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission reserved its verdict, with the Chief Election Commissioner noting that a decision would be made on whether to accept the apology. He added that if the plea was not accepted, further proceedings would follow.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PML-N\u2019s Abid Sher Ali apologizes to ECP over ballot secrecy case<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","_speechable_audio":"","_speechable_word_timings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"post_template":[],"top_category":[],"class_list":["post-1143158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143158"},{"taxonomy":"post_template","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_template?post=1143158"},{"taxonomy":"top_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/top_category?post=1143158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}