{"id":369280,"date":"2022-08-22T12:34:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T07:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=369280"},"modified":"2022-08-22T13:00:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T07:30:18","slug":"imran-khan-pri-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/top-news\/imran-khan-pri-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"From PM to terror accused: Imran Khan’s sudden fall in fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday has been charged under an anti-terror law by police in Pakistan after his claims at a rally on Saturday that he would take legal action against a woman judge police officials for the torture of close aide Shahbaz Gill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gill had been arrested earlier in August after he said on a TV show that police should stop taking orders from the Pakistan military, which de facto rules the country. Since Gill has been charged with treason, a charge which is punished by the death penalty, the stakes for the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf have gone through the roof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khan was deposed as prime minister in April this year by a united opposition action which brought the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz of former PM Nawaz Sharif and the Bilawal Bhutto Zardari-led Pakistan People’s Party. The opposition had brought the PTI government to its knees over increasing inflation in the country. Shehbaz Sharif, the brother of Nawaz Sharif, now leads the government, which Khan had alleged was foisted on the urging of the United States and the Pakistan military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The police action on Monday, said an Al Jazeera report, includes the testimony of Judge Ali Javed who said Khan in his Saturday rally in Islamabad slammed senior police officials and a judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khan has been organising rallies throughout the country after he was deposed to drum up popular support. The latest booking under a terror charge could descend into chaos if the mercurial former cricketer called on his party folk to hit the streets. The PTI enjoys overwhelming support among the young and the educated across the country, as opposed to the PML-N and the PP which have pocket boroughs in Punjab and Sindh provinces respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Al Jazeera report added that Khan’s speech on a YouTube channel on Sunday was blanked out by the internet authority in Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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