{"id":21982,"date":"2023-02-24T02:09:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T02:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/?p=21982"},"modified":"2023-02-24T02:09:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T02:09:10","slug":"imran-reiterates-efforts-to-debar-him-from-politics-under-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/2023\/02\/24\/imran-reiterates-efforts-to-debar-him-from-politics-under-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Imran reiterates efforts to debar him from politics under way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan claimed on Thursday the efforts to debar him from politics were under way.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the nation via video link, Mr Khan spoke about his \u201cJail Bharo Movement,\u201d saying, \u201cThe country hardly witnessed so many arrests along with the party leaders.\u201d He recalled PTI leader Shahbaz Gill\u2019s claim of torture, saying, \u201cGill was tortured to give a statement against me.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-content_inline tdi_2 td_block_template_14\">\n<div id=\"taboola-mid-article-thumbnails\" class=\" trc_related_container trc_spotlight_widget trc_elastic trc_elastic_thumbnails-mid \" data-placement-name=\"Mid Article Thumbnails\">\n<div class=\"trc_rbox_container\">\n<div id=\"trc_wrapper_51156\" class=\"trc_rbox thumbnails-mid trc-content-sponsored \">\n<div class=\"trc_clearer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He schooled the incumbent government, saying, \u201cEven during martial law regimes, the country did not witness such brutality as it is witnessing today.\u201d He lamented the case of terrorism was lodged against him.<\/p>\n<p>Taking a dig at the electoral watchdog, Mr Khan said, \u201cThe Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) keeps on giving its ruling against the PTI by joining hands with the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM). The electoral watchdog is campaigning for the PDM\u2019s political interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Khan deplored, \u201cour people had been arrested from their homes.\u201d He said Shahbaz Gill and Azam Swati were subjected to torture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan claimed on Thursday the efforts to debar him from politics were under way. Addressing the nation via video link, Mr Khan spoke about his \u201cJail Bharo Movement,\u201d saying, \u201cThe country hardly witnessed so many arrests along with the party leaders.\u201d He recalled PTI leader Shahbaz Gill\u2019s claim of torture, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"category-pakistan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21984,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21982\/revisions\/21984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}