{"id":371167,"date":"2018-07-28T07:24:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T06:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/electing-the-cornered-tiger-imran-khan-in-pakistani-politics\/"},"modified":"2018-07-28T07:24:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T06:24:22","slug":"electing-the-cornered-tiger-imran-khan-in-pakistani-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/electing-the-cornered-tiger-imran-khan-in-pakistani-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Electing the Cornered Tiger: Imran Khan in Pakistani Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tariq Ali, whilst having a lunch in Knightsbridge with the Pakistani cricket colossus, Imran Khan, suggested that retirement should not be too problematic for him.\u00a0 (Khan had seemed gloomy, deep in thought about post-retirement prospects at the age of 30.)\u00a0 Consider, posed Ali<\/a>, film, or at the very least funding for a film institute.\u00a0 \u201cYou could be an enabler or you could act.\u00a0 A film with you in it would be a surefire hit and help fund more avant-garde productions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Khan did not bite.\u00a0 He preferred politics, an area which has its fair share of thespians staking their wares.\u00a0 His stewardship of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice) has been years in the making, a gradual yet relentless push into the limelight since its establishment in 1996. When first assuming the mantle of politician, he was a clear target of ridicule.\u00a0 \u201cSince he foreswore sport and sex for politics and piety about a decade ago,\u201d went The Guardian<\/a><\/em> in August 2005, \u201cKhan\u2019s form has been highly erratic.\u201d\u00a0 After his divorce from Jemima Goldsmith after a nine-year marriage \u201che has edged his views ever closer to the fringes of Pakistan\u2019s radicalised political spectrum.\u201d<\/p>\n

This Pakistani election is being seen as epochal and singular.\u00a0 As with others, there have been deaths, disruptions and accusations, the cries of an ill patient.\u00a0 Some 31 perished in a suicide bombing attack in Balochistan, predictably against a polling centre.\u00a0 But as the night chugged and…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tariq Ali, whilst having a lunch in Knightsbridge with the Pakistani cricket colossus, Imran Khan, suggested that retirement should not be too problematic for him.\u00a0 (Khan had seemed gloomy, deep in thought about post-retirement prospects at the age of 30.)\u00a0 Consider, posed Ali, film, or at the very least funding for a film institute.\u00a0 \u201cYou […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-371167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}