{"id":48123,"date":"2024-02-21T14:00:46","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T04:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=48123"},"modified":"2024-02-21T14:00:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T04:00:46","slug":"pakistan-parties-reach-power-sharing-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=48123","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan parties reach power-sharing agreement, Khan loyalists left out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Two Pakistan parties have reached a power-sharing agreement that will return Shehbaz Sharif to the premiership, leaving out politicians loyal to jailed former leader Imran Khan despite winning the most seats in this month&#8217;s vote.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The army-backed Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) said they had settled days of negotiations on securing a majority to form a coalition government that will also include several smaller parties.<\/p>\n<p>Candidates loyal to Khan&#8217;s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party won the most seats but were forced to stand as independents following a sweeping crackdown on the party.<\/p>\n<p>There were widespread allegations of vote-rigging and result manipulation in the February 8 election after authorities switched off the nation&#8217;s mobile phone network on election day, ostensibly on security grounds, and the count took more than 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>After weeks of negotiations, Khan&#8217;s adversaries announced at a late-night press conference in the capital Islamabad that a power-sharing agreement had been reached.<\/p>\n<p>Under the deal, the PML-N and PPP will put forward former leader Sharif as prime minister and Asif Ali Zardari, the husband of assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, as president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Pakistan parties have reached a power-sharing agreement that will return Shehbaz Sharif to the premiership, leaving out politicians loyal to jailed former leader Imran Khan despite winning the most seats in this month&#8217;s vote. The army-backed Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) said they had settled days of negotiations on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[561,562],"class_list":["post-48123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-khan-loyalists-left-out","tag-pakistan-parties-reach-power-sharing-agreement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}