{"id":49055,"date":"2022-10-04T10:35:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T01:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/04\/pakistans-pm-says-rival-imran-khan-is-biggest-liar-on-earth"},"modified":"2022-10-04T10:35:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T01:35:10","slug":"pakistans-pm-says-rival-imran-khan-is-biggest-liar-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49055","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s PM says rival Imran Khan is \u2018biggest liar on earth\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As economic turmoil continues, Shehbaz Sharif accuses predecessor of leaving the country in ruins <\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, has accused the former premier Imran Khan of being the \u201cthe biggest liar on the face of the earth\u201d and injecting poison into society to \u201cdangerously polarise the electorate\u201d after he was toppled from power earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in his first interview from Pakistan since he took over as prime minister in April, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/11\/shahbaz-sharif-the-diligent-administrator-now-pm-of-pakistan\">Sharif<\/a>, 70, spoke unsparingly of the \u201cdamage\u201d that Khan, the former cricket superstar who ruled Pakistan from 2018, had done to the country in both domestic and foreign affairs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/04\/pakistans-pm-says-rival-imran-khan-is-biggest-liar-on-earth\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As economic turmoil continues, Shehbaz Sharif accuses predecessor of leaving the country in ruins Pakistan\u2019s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, has accused the former premier Imran Khan of being the \u201cthe biggest liar on the face of the earth\u201d and injectin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3349,"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":[41,412,50,359,60,61,45,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-belt-and-road-initiative","category-china","category-imran-khan","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-foreign-policy","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\/49055","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\/3349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49070,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49055\/revisions\/49070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}