{"id":55001,"date":"2023-05-10T22:42:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T13:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/10\/former-pm-imran-khan-appears-before-judge-amid-uproar-in-pakistan"},"modified":"2023-05-11T08:47:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T23:47:03","slug":"former-pm-imran-khan-appears-before-judge-amid-uproar-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55001","title":{"rendered":"Former PM Imran Khan appears before judge amid uproar in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least five people have died and 84 have been injured as protests spread across country and army deployed<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/09\/how-imran-khan-became-the-man-who-divided-pakistan\">former prime minister Imran Khan<\/a> has been presented before a judge at a police station in Islamabad, 24 hours after his arrest by scores of paramilitary officers that led to countrywide uproar.<\/p>\n<p>Khan was also indicted on Wednesday by the Islamabad high court in a separate corruption case in which he is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/21\/ex-pakistan-pm-imran-khan-barred-elections-five-years\">accused of selling millions of dollars worth of state gifts<\/a> presented by the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/10\/former-pm-imran-khan-appears-before-judge-amid-uproar-in-pakistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least five people have died and 84 have been injured as protests spread across country and army deployedPakistan\u2019s former prime minister Imran Khan has been presented before a judge at a police station in Islamabad, 24 hours after his arrest by scor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3727,"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-55001","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\/55001","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\/3727"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55001"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55015,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55001\/revisions\/55015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}