{"id":43214,"date":"2022-04-04T01:51:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T16:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/03\/imran-khan-appears-to-want-to-keep-power-in-pakistan-at-any-cost"},"modified":"2022-04-04T01:51:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T16:51:55","slug":"imran-khan-appears-to-want-to-keep-power-in-pakistan-at-any-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43214","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan appears to want to keep power in Pakistan at any cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister cuts an increasingly isolated figure \u2013 and his dramatic dissolution of parliament is a very risky move<\/p>\n<p>Imran Khan\u2019s dramatic move to dissolve Pakistan\u2019s parliament on Sunday morning, ahead of a vote that almost certainly would have removed him from office, reads to many like the desperate actions of a prime minister who will try to hold on to power at any cost.<\/p>\n<p>While his repeated allegations of a \u201cforeign conspiracy\u201d and pressure from the US being behind the no-confidence vote has played well to his diehard supporters, most of whom are vehemently opposed to the west, it is still a very risky move for Khan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/03\/imran-khan-appears-to-want-to-keep-power-in-pakistan-at-any-cost\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister cuts an increasingly isolated figure \u2013 and his dramatic dissolution of parliament is a very risky moveImran Khan\u2019s dramatic move to dissolve Pakistan\u2019s parliament on Sunday morning, ahead of a vote that almost certainly would have remove&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"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":[359,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/43214","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43215,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43214\/revisions\/43215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}