{"id":54973,"date":"2023-05-10T02:21:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T17:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/09\/how-imran-khan-became-the-man-who-divided-pakistan"},"modified":"2023-05-10T02:21:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T17:21:15","slug":"how-imran-khan-became-the-man-who-divided-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54973","title":{"rendered":"How Imran Khan became the man who divided Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From cricket star to ousted PM, Khan is an anti-establishment rebel to some and a corrupt force for destruction to others<\/p>\n<p>Imran Khan is often regarded as the most divisive man in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>For some, the former superstar cricketer turned prime minister, who was toppled from power last April and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/09\/pakistan-former-pm-imran-khan-arrested-in-islamabad\">arrested in a corruption case on Tuesday<\/a>, is the anti-establishment saviour that Pakistan has long been waiting for.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/09\/how-imran-khan-became-the-man-who-divided-pakistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From cricket star to ousted PM, Khan is an anti-establishment rebel to some and a corrupt force for destruction to othersImran Khan is often regarded as the most divisive man in Pakistan.For some, the former superstar cricketer turned prime minister, w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"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-54973","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\/54973","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54974,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54973\/revisions\/54974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}