{"id":190749,"date":"2022-09-11T11:47:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T03:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=190749"},"modified":"2022-09-11T11:47:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T03:47:36","slug":"imran-khan-plans-street-protests-to-press-for-new-pakistan-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=190749","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan plans street protests to press for new Pakistan elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEW DELHI, Sept 11 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Pakistan&#8217;s former prime minister Imran Khan on Saturday night warned of nationwide street protests in the coming days if the government doesn&#8217;t agree to hold new general elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imran said his opponents are &#8220;running away&#8221; from the elections as they are afraid of losing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If they do not hold free and fair elections, then people are ready to take to the streets of Pakistan to hold peaceful protests. We will compel them to hold elections,&#8221; he said at a rally organised by his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party in the city of Gujranwala in Punjab province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rally was the last in a three-week-long round of mass gatherings organised by the PTI for &#8220;haqeeqi azadi&#8221; (real freedom).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Demonstrations were also held in a number of cities, including Karachi, Peshawar, Lahore and Islamabad,&nbsp;on Saturday evening in solidarity with the former premier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since his government was ousted in April in a parliamentary vote of no-confidence, which the PTI alleges on a foreign-backed regime change conspiracy, Imran has addressed huge rallies across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His party won the by-elections in Punjab in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Sept 11 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Pakistan&#8217;s former prime minister Imran Khan on Saturday night warned of nationwide street protests in the coming days if the government doesn&#8217;t agree to hold new general elections. Imran said his opponents are &#8220;running away&#8221; from the elections as they are afraid of losing. &#8220;If they do not hold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":170014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,286,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190749"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190750,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190749\/revisions\/190750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/170014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}