{"id":55437,"date":"2023-05-24T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T04:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/24\/future-pakistan-young-voters-imran-khan-cricketer-politician"},"modified":"2023-05-24T13:00:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T04:00:05","slug":"hes-fighting-for-our-future-pakistans-young-voters-rally-behind-imran-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55437","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He\u2019s fighting for our future\u2019: Pakistan\u2019s young voters rally behind Imran Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attempts to jail and harass the cricketer turned politician have only strengthened his support among young people<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/may\/21\/the-guardian-view-on-pakistans-army-go-back-to-the-barracks\">The Guardian view on Pakistan\u2019s army: go back to the barracks<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In a recent video address to tens of thousands of viewers, Imran Khan waved a piece of paper at the camera bearing the result of a survey of voters. \u201cYou see, 70% of the population is now standing with our party,\u201d the politician claimed.<\/p>\n<p>The authenticity of the data was unclear \u2013 Khan is known for hyperbole \u2013 but it is widely acknowledged Khan and his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party are enjoying a period of unparalleled popularity that has been building since April last year when he was toppled in a vote of no confidence, having served less than four years as prime minister. The last credible poll, back in March, put his popularity at 61%.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/24\/future-pakistan-young-voters-imran-khan-cricketer-politician\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attempts to jail and harass the cricketer turned politician have only strengthened his support among young peopleThe Guardian view on Pakistan\u2019s army: go back to the barracksIn a recent video address to tens of thousands of viewers, Imran Khan waved a &#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-55437","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\/55437","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=55437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55438,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55437\/revisions\/55438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}