{"id":55020,"date":"2023-05-11T15:06:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T06:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/11\/pakistan-army-deployed-across-country-as-unrest-triggered-by-imran-khan-arrest-continues"},"modified":"2023-05-12T01:29:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T16:29:38","slug":"pakistan-army-deployed-across-country-as-unrest-triggered-by-imran-khan-arrest-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55020","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan supreme court rules arrest of Imran Khan was illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Court orders immediate release of former prime minister who was arrested in Islamabad this week<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s supreme court has ruled the arrest of the former prime minister Imran Khan was illegal and ordered for him to be released.<\/p>\n<p>The chief justice of Pakistan, Umar Ata Bandial, declared that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had acted in violation of the law by arresting Khan on the premises of the Islamabad high court without permission and that such actions would have a \u201cchilling effect\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/11\/pakistan-army-deployed-across-country-as-unrest-triggered-by-imran-khan-arrest-continues\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court orders immediate release of former prime minister who was arrested in Islamabad this weekPakistan\u2019s supreme court has ruled the arrest of the former prime minister Imran Khan was illegal and ordered for him to be released.The chief justice of Pak&#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-55020","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\/55020","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=55020"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55037,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55020\/revisions\/55037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}