{"id":50548,"date":"2022-11-25T19:33:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T10:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/25\/imran-khan-resume-protests-taking-on-pakistan-military"},"modified":"2022-11-26T18:02:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T09:02:02","slug":"imran-khan-to-resume-protests-this-time-taking-on-pakistans-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50548","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan to resume protests \u2013 this time taking on Pakistan\u2019s military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After surviving an assassination attempt, many believe ex-PM could use his support to press army to back a return to power<\/p>\n<p>It will be the moment that Imran Khan has been building up to for weeks. On Saturday, Pakistan\u2019s toppled prime minister and former superstar cricketer will bring his \u201clong march 2.0\u201d to the city of Rawalpindi as he continues to push for early general elections. If a vote is called, Khan insists he will win overwhelmingly.<\/p>\n<p>Khan\u2019s appearance will be his first public outing since an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/03\/imran-khan-shot-in-assassination-attempt-in-pakistan\">assassination attempt<\/a> earlier this month, when he was shot in the leg as his march travelled through Punjab. He remains unable to walk so will address the crowds from a wheelchair. According to security agencies, there remains a high risk of another assassination attempt, so Khan will be shielded within a cube of bulletproof glass.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/25\/imran-khan-resume-protests-taking-on-pakistan-military\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After surviving an assassination attempt, many believe ex-PM could use his support to press army to back a return to powerIt will be the moment that Imran Khan has been building up to for weeks. On Saturday, Pakistan\u2019s toppled prime minister and former&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":654,"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-50548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imran-khan","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50548","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\/654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50548"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50579,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50548\/revisions\/50579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}