{"id":43638,"date":"2022-04-18T18:44:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T09:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/18\/pakistan-inches-away-from-civil-unrest-after-ousting-of-imran-khan"},"modified":"2022-04-18T18:44:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T09:44:54","slug":"pakistan-inches-away-from-civil-unrest-after-ousting-of-imran-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43638","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan \u2018inches away\u2019 from civil unrest after ousting of Imran Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former PM is accused of creating wave of public anger that could prove difficult to control<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, two days after Imran Khan had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/09\/pakistan-on-brink-of-crisis-as-imran-khan-blocks-no-confidence-vote\">ousted as Pakistan\u2019s prime minister in a dramatic no-confidence vote<\/a>, Noor Alam Khan \u2013 a politician and former member of Khan\u2019s party \u2013 was eating dinner at a restaurant when he was confronted by another diner.<\/p>\n<p>The man began shouting \u201ctraitor\u201d, \u201cAmerican agent\u201d and \u201cturncoat\u201d and then lunged over to punch Khan, who had been attempting to ignore him. In the middle of the restaurant, the politician and the angry voter began to brawl, with food and tables going flying.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/18\/pakistan-inches-away-from-civil-unrest-after-ousting-of-imran-khan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former PM is accused of creating wave of public anger that could prove difficult to controlOn Tuesday, two days after Imran Khan had been ousted as Pakistan\u2019s prime minister in a dramatic no-confidence vote, Noor Alam Khan \u2013 a politician and former mem&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1640,"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-43638","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\/43638","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\/1640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43639,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43638\/revisions\/43639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}