{"id":61565,"date":"2024-01-31T23:23:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T14:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/31\/imran-khan-pakistan-election-tactics-military"},"modified":"2024-01-31T23:23:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T14:23:12","slug":"pakistani-military-use-age-old-tactics-to-keep-imran-khan-away-from-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61565","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani military use age-old tactics to keep Imran Khan away from election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former PM, once military\u2019s golden boy, has been sentenced in two separate cases to 10 and 14 years<\/p>\n<p>The script seems eerily familiar. Imran Khan, once the golden boy of Pakistan\u2019s powerful military establishment, found himself at the receiving end of not one, but two, damning court verdicts this week.<\/p>\n<p>Sentenced to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/30\/imran-khan-pm-sentenced-prison-pakistan\">10 years<\/a> in jail on Tuesday, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/31\/imran-khan-pakistan-former-pm-sentenced-prison-14-years-corruption-charges\">14 years<\/a> on Wednesday, the brazen timing of the convictions in two separate cases made one thing abundantly clear: the military will stop at nothing to keep Khan away from Pakistan\u2019s general election, which will be held next week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/31\/imran-khan-pakistan-election-tactics-military\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former PM, once military\u2019s golden boy, has been sentenced in two separate cases to 10 and 14 yearsThe script seems eerily familiar. Imran Khan, once the golden boy of Pakistan\u2019s powerful military establishment, found himself at the receiving end of not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"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-61565","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\/61565","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61566,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61565\/revisions\/61566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}