{"id":43192,"date":"2022-04-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/02\/cornered-tiger-imran-khan-makes-last-ditch-bid-to-cling-to-political-power"},"modified":"2022-04-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T15:00:00","slug":"cornered-tiger-imran-khan-makes-last-ditch-bid-to-cling-to-political-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43192","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Cornered tiger\u2019 Imran Khan makes last-ditch bid to cling to political power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018, Pakistan\u2019s new star PM pledged to halt dynastic politics, end corruption and boost the economy. He failed and is now facing defeat in a vote of no confidence<\/p>\n<p>Standing before tens of thousands of supporters, waving flags bearing his party\u2019s red and green logo, Imran Khan railed against the \u201cforeign conspiracy\u201d to dislodge his government.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters had travelled from across the country for the rally last weekend, pouring into the capital, Islamabad, in cars and buses to express their support as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/30\/pakistan-pm-imran-khan-loses-support-days-before-no-confidence-vote\" title=\"\">Khan fights for his political life<\/a>. \u201cFunding is being channelled into Pakistan from abroad in an attempt to change the government,\u201d he told the cheering crowd. \u201cOur own people are being used.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/02\/cornered-tiger-imran-khan-makes-last-ditch-bid-to-cling-to-political-power\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018, Pakistan\u2019s new star PM pledged to halt dynastic politics, end corruption and boost the economy. He failed and is now facing defeat in a vote of no confidenceStanding before tens of thousands of supporters, waving flags bearing his party\u2019s red &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2998,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[499,359,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cricket","category-imran-khan","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2998"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43193,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43192\/revisions\/43193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}