{"id":57301,"date":"2023-08-06T02:05:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T17:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/05\/from-playboy-cricketer-to-populist-politician-how-imran-khan-promises-to-pakistan-fell-by-the-wayside"},"modified":"2023-08-06T02:05:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T17:05:13","slug":"from-playboy-cricketer-to-populist-politician-how-imran-khans-promises-to-pakistan-fell-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57301","title":{"rendered":"From playboy cricketer to populist politician: how Imran Khan\u2019s promises to Pakistan fell away"},"content":{"rendered":"

He called on his team to \u2018fight like tigers\u2019 to win the World Cup. Now facing jail, does he have it in him to pull off yet another comeback?<\/p>\n

\u2022 Imran Khan: former Pakistan prime minister sentenced to three years in jail<\/a><\/p>\n

From a playboy cricket celebrity with a British socialite wife to a conservative populist dubbed \u201cTaliban Khan\u201d by opponents for his flirtation with extreme views, Imran Khan\u2019s life has traced an arc stranger and more colourful than most films.<\/p>\n

He reached the top of sporting and political life, guiding Pakistan to its only Cricket World Cup win in his first career, and then defied mocking journalists and dismissive political veterans to make his upstart party a major force and to ultimately become prime minister<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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He called on his team to \u2018fight like tigers\u2019 to win the World Cup. Now facing jail, does he have it in him to pull off yet another comeback?\u2022 Imran Khan: former Pakistan prime minister sentenced to three years in jailFrom a playboy cricket celebrity wi…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"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-57301","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\/57301","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57302,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57301\/revisions\/57302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}