{"id":57581,"date":"2023-08-15T21:08:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T12:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/15\/pakistans-pm-shehbaz-sharif-denies-vendetta-against-imran-khan"},"modified":"2023-08-15T21:08:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T12:08:02","slug":"pakistans-outgoing-pm-denies-vendetta-against-imran-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57581","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s outgoing PM denies vendetta against Imran Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Shehbaz Sharif accuses jailed predecessor of \u2018shabby treatment\u2019 of political rivals in final interview as leader<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, has denied pursuing a personal vendetta against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/imran-khan\">Imran Khan<\/a>, his political rival and immediate predecessor, who was jailed and barred from politics on corruption charges this month.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Guardian in his last interview before handing over to a caretaker leader, Sharif said \u201cvictimisation is not in [his] dictionary\u201d and accused Khan of \u201cshabby treatment of opposition leaders and putting them behind bars\u201d when he was in power from 2018 to April last year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/15\/pakistans-pm-shehbaz-sharif-denies-vendetta-against-imran-khan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Shehbaz Sharif accuses jailed predecessor of \u2018shabby treatment\u2019 of political rivals in final interview as leaderPakistan\u2019s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, has denied pursuing a personal vendetta against Imran Khan, his political rival and im&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"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-57581","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\/57581","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\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57582,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57581\/revisions\/57582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}