{"id":180134,"date":"2020-12-15T21:24:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T16:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/?p=180134"},"modified":"2020-12-15T21:24:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T16:24:55","slug":"sc-guidance-to-be-sought-on-constitutional-amendment-for-show-of-hands-in-senate-elections-shibli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/2020\/12\/sc-guidance-to-be-sought-on-constitutional-amendment-for-show-of-hands-in-senate-elections-shibli\/","title":{"rendered":"SC guidance to be sought on constitutional amendment for show of hands in Senate elections: Shibli"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 696px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-180134-1\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Information-Minister-Shibli-FarazTalks-to-Media.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Information-Minister-Shibli-FarazTalks-to-Media.mp4\">https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Information-Minister-Shibli-FarazTalks-to-Media.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">ISLAMABAD, Dec 15 (APP):Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Shibil Faraz on Tuesday said the Federal Cabinet had decided to seek guidance from the Supreme Court on the constitutional amendment for\u00a0\u00a0 \u2018show of hands\u2019 instead of &#8216;secret balloting&#8217; in the Senate election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0Addressing a press briefing\u00a0 Shibli Faraz said various options for reforming the Senate election process, including a constitutional amendment, executive order and others, came under discussion in the Federal Cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u201cIt was decided that under Article 186 [of the Constitution], we will seek the Supreme Court&#8217;s guidance on\u00a0 introducing the \u2018show of hands\u2019 during the Senate elections,\u201d he said. The government had already tabled a bill in the National Assembly on the basis of the apex court&#8217;s short order\u00a0 in that regard, he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The minister expressed the hope that the government would manage to get SC&#8217;s guidance on the matter before the Senate elections, which were scheduled to be held next year. All out efforts would be made to get the bill passed from the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The opposition would hopefully support the legislation as it was beneficial for all the political parties, he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shibli Faraz said the Senate elections had always remained controversial in the past with\u00a0 allegations of horse-trading hurled on all occasions, so reforms were much needed to abolish such practices in future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0Prime Minister Imran Khan, he said, fully believed in transparency as he had expelled his own party members for such activities. Following the prime minister\u2019s vision of ensuring transparent elections in the country, the government had already given some suggestion for electoral reforms, he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He said the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf was committed to bring more transparency in the electoral process and its government was the first in Pakistan&#8217;s history that had taken such initiatives. No other government had ever taken such steps, he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Dec 15 (APP):Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Shibil Faraz on Tuesday said the Federal Cabinet had decided to seek guidance from the Supreme Court on the constitutional amendment for\u00a0\u00a0 \u2018show of hands\u2019 instead of &#8216;secret balloting&#8217; in the Senate election. \u00a0Addressing a press briefing\u00a0 Shibli Faraz said various options for reforming the Senate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":180136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-180134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"post_format-post-format-video"},"video_url":["https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Information-Minister-Shibli-FarazTalks-to-Media.mp4"],"featured_media_src_url":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1-182-1024x576.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180137,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180134\/revisions\/180137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}