{"id":57320,"date":"2023-08-07T02:59:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T17:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/06\/fears-grow-pakistani-government-will-delay-general-election-due-this-year"},"modified":"2023-08-07T02:59:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T17:59:54","slug":"fears-grow-pakistani-government-will-delay-general-election-due-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57320","title":{"rendered":"Fears grow Pakistani government will delay general election due this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Law minister claims new census needed for vote but supporters of Imran Khan, who is facing jail, believe his popularity is a factor<\/p>\n<p>Concerns are mounting in Pakistan that a general election due later this year could be delayed after the government announced that the vote could only take place after a new census is completed and new constituency boundaries drawn.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement from the nation\u2019s law minister that it could take four months to complete the process came on the same day that former prime minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2023\/aug\/05\/dont-sit-silently-at-home-arrested-ex-pm-imran-khan-appeals-to-pakistan-supporters-video\">Imran Khan<\/a> was arrested after a court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/05\/former-pakistan-prime-minister-imran-khan-jailed-for-three-years\">sentenced him to three years in prison<\/a> for \u201ccorrupt practices\u201d, involving the sale of state gifts, and disqualified him from politics.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/06\/fears-grow-pakistani-government-will-delay-general-election-due-this-year\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law minister claims new census needed for vote but supporters of Imran Khan, who is facing jail, believe his popularity is a factorConcerns are mounting in Pakistan that a general election due later this year could be delayed after the government annou&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2913,"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-57320","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\/57320","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\/2913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57325,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57320\/revisions\/57325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}