{"id":1927812,"date":"2023-05-10T03:25:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T07:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-prime-minister-of-south-asian-country-arrested-by-paramilitary-forces\/"},"modified":"2023-05-10T03:28:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T07:28:06","slug":"former-prime-minister-of-south-asian-country-arrested-by-paramilitary-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-prime-minister-of-south-asian-country-arrested-by-paramilitary-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-PM of South Asian Nation Nabbed by Paramilitary"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-prime-minister-of-south-asian-country-arrested-by-paramilitary-forces%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1927812&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan Arrested on Terrorism and Corruption Charges<\/h2>\n<p>Imran Khan, the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-govt-lockdown-to-last-12-months-expect-repeated-vaccinations\/\" title=\"UK Govt: Lockdown to Last 12+ Months, Expect Repeated Vaccinations\">prime minister<\/a> of Pakistan and popular leader, was arrested on Tuesday by paramilitary forces on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feds-arrest-pennsylvania-woman-accused-of-stealing-pelosis-laptop\/\" title=\"Feds Arrest Pennsylvania Woman Accused of Stealing Pelosi\u2019s Laptop\">charges related<\/a> to terrorism and corruption. Despite his arrest, Khan remains outspoken against the country\u2019s military and political leadership.<\/p>\n<h3>A Controversial Figure<\/h3>\n<p>Khan, a former cricket player, was ousted from his role as prime minister in April 2022 by a no-confidence vote in parliament after being accused of corruption and violating the constitution. Khan survived a shooting in November and has claimed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-prime-minister-of-south-asian-country-arrested-by-paramilitary-forces\/\" title=\"Ex-PM of South Asian Nation Nabbed by Paramilitary\">corrupt officials coordinated<\/a> his removal from office.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet before his arrest, Khan said that Pakistan\u2019s military and political opponents in the Pakistan Democratic Movement Party were trying to arrest him to \u201cprevent me from campaigning\u201d and to \u201cprevent me from mobilising the masses for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meme-lords-just-figured-out-how-to-take-back-the-billions-wall-street-made-profiting-off-lockdowns-the-washington-standard\/\" title=\"Meme Lords Just Figured Out How To Take Back The Billions Wall Street Made Profiting Off Lockdowns\">street movement<\/a> in support of Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Supporters Take to the Streets<\/h3>\n<p>After his arrest, he was taken to the National Accountability Bureau for questioning, according to police. Supporters took to the streets in protest, starting fires and clashing with police.<\/p>\n<p>Khan\u2019s arrest came as he was set to go before the Islamabad High Court over mutiny and attempted murder cases, according to Dawn, an English-language Pakistani newspaper. Since his removal last year, Khan has been in court battles over whether he would be able to run for office and has faced allegations of corruption.<\/p>\n<h3>A Populist Political Party<\/h3>\n<p>He has also led the charge for earlier elections throughout Pakistan, as his populist political party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has gained public support in the aftermath of Khan\u2019s ouster.<\/p>\n<p>Just before he was arrested, Khan, 71, had said that an intelligence officer was trying to kill him. \u201cThis man tried to kill me twice and whenever an investigation is carried out, I will prove that it was this man and there is a whole gang with him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h3>Condemnation from Pakistan\u2019s Prime Minister<\/h3>\n<p>The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing for Pakistan\u2019s Armed Forces, called Khan\u2019s claims \u201cirresponsible and baseless\u201d as well as \u201cextremely unfortunate, deplorable and unacceptable.\u201d Pakistan\u2019s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif also condemned Khan\u2019s comments, saying they wouldn\u2019t be \u201ctolerated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Khan\u2019s arrest has sparked controversy and protests in Pakistan, with many questioning the motives behind his arrest and the country\u2019s political and military leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imran Khan, the former prime minister of Pakistan, was arrested on Tuesday by paramilitary forces as the popular leader faces terrorism and corruption-related charges and remains outspoken against the country\u2019s military and political leadership.\u00a0 Khan, a former cricket player, was ousted from his role as prime minister in April 2022 by a no-confidence vote in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1927813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[14384,26311,11649,11156,24375,3960],"class_list":["post-1927812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-asian","tag-ex-pm","tag-nabbed","tag-nation","tag-paramilitary","tag-south"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1927812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1927813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}