{"id":54961,"date":"2023-05-09T21:55:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T12:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/09\/pakistan-former-pm-imran-khan-arrested-in-islamabad"},"modified":"2023-05-09T23:46:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T14:46:55","slug":"pakistans-former-pm-imran-khan-arrested-in-islamabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54961","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan internet cut as violence erupts after arrest of ex-PM Imran Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Khan, ousted from power last year, was appearing in court to face corruption charges <\/p>\n<p>Internet services have been suspended across Pakistan after violence erupted when the former prime minister, Imran Khan, was arrested at a court appearance in Islamabad and dragged into an armoured vehicle by scores of security forces in riot gear.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest of Khan \u2013 who was ousted from power last year and has evaded arrest several times since \u2013 came hours after he released a video message reiterating his allegations that Pakistan\u2019s powerful military establishment had tried to assassinate him twice.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/09\/pakistan-former-pm-imran-khan-arrested-in-islamabad\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khan, ousted from power last year, was appearing in court to face corruption charges Internet services have been suspended across Pakistan after violence erupted when the former prime minister, Imran Khan, was arrested at a court appearance in Islamaba&#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-54961","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\/54961","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=54961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54978,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54961\/revisions\/54978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}