{"id":416665,"date":"2023-05-11T09:24:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T06:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=416665"},"modified":"2023-05-11T09:24:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T06:24:14","slug":"pakistan-arrests-imran-khans-party-leaders-as-protests-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/pakistan-arrests-imran-khans-party-leaders-as-protests-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan arrests Imran Khan\u2019s party leaders as protests continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">SONNA &#8211; Former Prime Minister Imran Khan\u2019s party has accused Pakistani authorities of arresting a senior leader as the government deploys the army\u00a0to help end deadly unrest sparked by Khan\u2019s arrest three days ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Khan\u2019s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party on Thursday alleged Shah Mahmood Qureshi, who served as foreign minister in Khan\u2019s cabinet during his four-year premiership, was arrested overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Two other senior leaders of PTI, Asad Umar and Fawad Chaudhry, were also arrested on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The violence sparked by\u00a0Khan\u2019s arrest\u00a0on Tuesday by the country\u2019s anti-corruption agency has aggravated instability in the country of 220 million people as it grapples with a severe economic crisis and a delay to an International Monetary Fund bailout since November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Protesters have stormed military buildings and ransacked the residence of a top army general in the eastern city of Lahore. Other state buildings and assets have been attacked and set ablaze by protesters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">At least five people have died in the violence.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Source: Al Jazeera<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SONNA &#8211; Former Prime Minister Imran Khan\u2019s party has accused Pakistani authorities of arresting a senior leader as the government deploys the army\u00a0to help end deadly unrest sparked by Khan\u2019s arrest three days ago. Khan\u2019s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party on Thursday alleged Shah Mahmood Qureshi, who served as foreign minister in Khan\u2019s cabinet during his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":416666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-416665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416667,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416665\/revisions\/416667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}