{"id":60834,"date":"2023-12-30T23:17:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T14:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/30\/pakistan-commission-rejects-imran-khan-bid-to-overturn-election-ban"},"modified":"2023-12-30T23:17:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T14:17:34","slug":"pakistan-commission-rejects-imran-khans-bid-to-overturn-election-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60834","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan commission rejects Imran Khan\u2019s bid to overturn election ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former prime minister is barred from standing in elections after being jailed for unlawfully selling state gifts while in office<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s election body has rejected former prime minister Imran Khan\u2019s nomination to contest the 2024 national elections in two constituencies, officials and his party\u2019s media team said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 71-year-old former cricket star has been embroiled in a tangle of political and legal battles since he was ousted as prime minister in April 2022. He has not been seen in public since he was jailed for three years in August for unlawfully selling state gifts while in office from 2018 to 2022.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/30\/pakistan-commission-rejects-imran-khan-bid-to-overturn-election-ban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former prime minister is barred from standing in elections after being jailed for unlawfully selling state gifts while in officePakistan\u2019s election body has rejected former prime minister Imran Khan\u2019s nomination to contest the 2024 national elections i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1181,"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-60834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imran-khan","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60834","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\/1181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60835,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60834\/revisions\/60835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}