{"id":1152941,"date":"2026-01-28T23:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T18:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.app.com.pk\/?p=1152941"},"modified":"2026-01-28T23:00:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T18:00:37","slug":"ecp-upholds-sadaf-ihsans-na-seat-rejects-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/ecp-upholds-sadaf-ihsans-na-seat-rejects-petition\/","title":{"rendered":"ECP upholds Sadaf Ihsan\u2019s NA seat, rejects petition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">ISLAMABAD, Jan 28 (APP):The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday dismissed a petition challenging the women\u2019s reserved National Assembly seat occupied by Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam lawmaker Sadaf Ihsan.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The plea, filed by a JUI-P leader Hina Bibi, sought Ihsan\u2019s de-notification on the grounds that her name was not included in the party\u2019s priority list for reserved seats.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rejecting the contention, the commission upheld Ihsan\u2019s membership, while noting that the petitioner retains the right to appeal before the Election Tribunal.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the ruling, Sadaf Ihsan will continue to serve as a Member of the National Assembly.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Jan 28 (APP):The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday dismissed a petition challenging the women\u2019s reserved National Assembly seat occupied by Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam lawmaker Sadaf Ihsan. The plea, filed by a JUI-P leader Hina Bibi, sought Ihsan\u2019s de-notification on the grounds that her name was not included in the party\u2019s priority list for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1028512,"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":[754,6107],"post_template":[],"top_category":[],"class_list":["post-1152941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-national-assembly-2","tag-sadaf-ihsan","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152941","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=1152941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1028512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152941"},{"taxonomy":"post_template","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_template?post=1152941"},{"taxonomy":"top_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/top_category?post=1152941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}