{"id":49039,"date":"2022-10-03T20:18:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T11:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/03\/pakistan-court-drops-contempt-of-court-case-against-ex-pm-imran-khan"},"modified":"2022-10-03T20:18:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T11:18:42","slug":"pakistan-court-drops-contempt-of-court-case-against-ex-pm-imran-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49039","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan court drops contempt of court case against ex-PM Imran Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High court accepted former prime minister\u2019s apology with ruling that ease threat of disqualification from politics <\/p>\n<p>A Pakistani court on Monday accepted an apology tendered by the former prime minister Imran Khan and dropped a contempt of court case against him, his defence lawyer said, a ruling that ease the threat to him of disqualification from politics.<\/p>\n<p>The Islamabad high court had deferred Khan\u2019s indictment over the contempt case after he apologised to the court in person late last month.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/03\/pakistan-court-drops-contempt-of-court-case-against-ex-pm-imran-khan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High court accepted former prime minister\u2019s apology with ruling that ease threat of disqualification from politics A Pakistani court on Monday accepted an apology tendered by the former prime minister Imran Khan and dropped a contempt of court case aga&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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-49039","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\/49039","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49050,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49039\/revisions\/49050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}