{"id":3805,"date":"2014-09-03T06:44:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T06:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3805"},"modified":"2014-09-03T06:44:59","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T06:44:59","slug":"pakistan-pm-chairs-joint-parliament-session-as-crisis-deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/09\/03\/3805\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan PM chairs joint parliament session as crisis deepens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/pakistan%20PM%20chairs%20joint%20parliament.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif chaired a joint session of parliament on Tuesday as a deepening crisis over violent protests demanding his resignation prompted fears of army intervention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sharif enjoys a solid majority in parliament and by convening both houses he seeks to reaffirm that he is fully in control. His office said parliament would be in session all week to discuss the crisis.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThis is not a protest, a sit-in or a political gathering. This is a rebellion. It is a rebellion against state institutions. It is a rebellion against the state of Pakistan,\u201d Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar told parliament.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cClear guidance from this parliament would give strength to the police . . . They are not revolutionaries, they are intruders and terrorists,\u201d he said of the protesters.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sharif, wearing traditional Pakistani clothes, made no remarks in parliament, but took notes as he listened to the speeches. A spokesman said Sharif might speak at the end of the session.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pakistan has been in turmoil since mid-August when tens of thousands of protesters led by Imran Khan, former cricket legend and Pakistani opposition leader, and outspoken cleric Tahir Ul-Qadri, flooded into the capital Islamabad refusing to leave unless Sharif resigned. The protesters accuse the government of corruption and Sharif of rigging the election last year. He denies that and has refused to step down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source: <em><strong>Asharq Al-Awsat<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif chaired a joint session of parliament on Tuesday as a deepening crisis over violent protests demanding his resignation prompted fears of army intervention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pakistan PM chairs joint parliament session as crisis deepens - SunniOnline<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/09\/03\/3805\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pakistan PM chairs joint parliament session as crisis deepens - 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