{"id":55114,"date":"2023-05-14T23:22:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T14:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/14\/imran-khan-arrest-pakistan-military"},"modified":"2023-05-14T23:22:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T14:22:20","slug":"imran-khan-accuses-pakistans-military-of-ordering-his-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55114","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan accuses Pakistan\u2019s military of ordering his arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exclusive:<\/strong> Former PM claims after release from custody that army chief has \u2018personal grudge\u2019 and is behind crackdown on party<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s former prime minister Imran Khan has escalated his criticism of the country\u2019s powerful military, accusing the head of the army of harbouring a \u201cpersonal grudge\u201d against him and ordering his arrest and a crackdown on his party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is personal. It\u2019s got nothing to do with national interest,\u201d Khan told the Guardian in an interview at his home in Lahore, after a dramatic week in which he was arrested at Islamabad\u2019s high court by almost 100 paramilitary officers on Tuesday and held in police custody, in connection with a land corruption case.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/14\/imran-khan-arrest-pakistan-military\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Former PM claims after release from custody that army chief has \u2018personal grudge\u2019 and is behind crackdown on partyPakistan\u2019s former prime minister Imran Khan has escalated his criticism of the country\u2019s powerful military, accusing the head o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3735,"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-55114","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\/55114","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\/3735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55125,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55114\/revisions\/55125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}