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ISLAMABAD, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Pakistani police detained several lawmakers and leaders of former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party in raids a day after it held a major rally in the capital to demand his release, the party and police said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 71-year-old former cricket star has been in jail<\/a> for more than a year since his ouster in 2022 after a falling-out <\/a>with Pakistan’s military generals, who mostly decide who will rule the nation of 241 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Police detained four individuals, a spokesman said, although the party said 13 had been picked up from various places in Islamabad, including some from outside parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Media footage showed police pushing the lawmakers into vehicles in detentions outside parliament that Omar Ayub Khan, the party’s leader of the opposition, called “despicable”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Yesterday’s massive protest has sent shivers down the government’s spine,” Khan’s aide, Zulfikar Bukhari, said in a post on X, calling the detentions illegal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Party chairman Gohar Khan and senior leaders Shoaib Shaheen and Sher Afzal Marwat were among those held, added Bukhari, who is also a party spokesman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Candidates backed by Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party won the most seats in a general election in February but fell short of the majority required to form a government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His rivals cobbled together a coalition instead to set up a ruling alliance led by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Reuters) ISLAMABAD, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Pakistani police detained several lawmakers and leaders of former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party in raids a day after it held a major rally in the capital to demand his release, the party and police said on Tuesday. The 71-year-old former cricket star has been in jail for more than a year since his ouster in 2022 after a falling-out with Pakistan’s military generals, who mostly decide who will rule the nation of 241 million. Police detained four individuals, a spokesman said, although the party said 13 had been picked up from various places in Islamabad, including some… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41991,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41989\/revisions\/41991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}