{"id":12713,"date":"2024-01-27T11:03:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T11:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=12713"},"modified":"2024-01-27T11:03:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T11:03:41","slug":"imran-khans-party-erased-from-election-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/27\/imran-khans-party-erased-from-election-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan`s Party Erased from Election Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pakistani cricketing legend turned world leader Imran Khan is wildly popular in his constituency and ancestral homeland of Mianwali, but the political posters that line the streets do not bare his face and flags do not fly his colors.<br \/>\nA relentless crackdown widely attributed to Pakistan\u2019s powerful military has seen him and his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party almost erased from the election campaign ahead of the vote.<br \/>\n\u201cOur party workers are facing harassment, and I personally have received death threats,\u201d says 61-year-old Jamal Ahsan Khan, who is standing for PTI in Mianwali in place of his leader.<br \/>\n\u201cThroughout my life, I have never witnessed an election as intense and threatening as this one.\u201d<br \/>\nKhan, currently in jail facing dozens of legal challenges, is barred from contesting elections on February 8 because of a graft conviction &#8212; cases he claims are politically motivated.<br \/>\nAcross the country, PTI has been obstructed from holding rallies and the heavily censored media is restricted in its coverage of the opposition, pushing the party\u2019s campaign almost entirely online.<br \/>\nDozens of candidates nationwide have also had their nomination papers rejected by the electoral commission.<br \/>\nLike many other party candidates, loyalist Ahsan Khan has been in near hiding in the build-up to the election, unable to hold meetings or distribute leaflets.<br \/>\n\u201cIt feels disheartening that as a candidate of Pakistan\u2019s leading political party, I am unable to conduct my campaign in a meaningful way,\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events Pakistani cricketing legend turned world leader Imran Khan is wildly popular in his constituency and ancestral homeland of Mianwali, but the political posters that line the streets do not bare his face and flags do not fly his colors. A relentless crackdown widely attributed to Pakistan\u2019s powerful military has seen him &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12715,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12713\/revisions\/12715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}