{"id":61737,"date":"2024-02-07T22:58:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T13:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/07\/harassed-constantly-imran-khans-party-fights-state-pressure-in-pakistan-election"},"modified":"2024-02-07T22:58:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T13:58:51","slug":"harassed-constantly-imran-khans-party-fights-state-pressure-in-pakistan-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61737","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Harassed constantly\u2019: Imran Khan\u2019s party fights state pressure in Pakistan election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PTI turns to virtual rallies and AI-generated speeches from jailed leader after alleged intimidation and curbs on campaigning<\/p>\n<p>For months, police have blocked Arsalan Hafeez from entering into the Pakistani constituency where he will be standing for election this week.<\/p>\n<p>Since he put himself forward as the candidate for Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the political party led by Pakistan\u2019s now incarcerated former prime minister Imran Khan, Hafeez alleges that the state\u2019s machinery has done everything to prevent him being able to contest his district of Narowal in the state of Punjab.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/07\/harassed-constantly-imran-khans-party-fights-state-pressure-in-pakistan-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTI turns to virtual rallies and AI-generated speeches from jailed leader after alleged intimidation and curbs on campaigningFor months, police have blocked Arsalan Hafeez from entering into the Pakistani constituency where he will be standing for elec&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1855,"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":[359,813,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imran-khan","category-nawaz-sharif","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\/61737","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\/1855"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61738,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61737\/revisions\/61738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}