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Imran Khan arrested after Pakistan court sentences ex-prime minister to three years in jail
Reuters ^
| 8.5.2023
| Mubasher Bukhari, Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam and Charlotte Greenfield
Posted on 08/05/2023 1:51:40 PM PDT by libh8er
LAHORE, Pakistan, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Police arrested Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan in Lahore on Saturday after a court sentenced him to three years in prison for illegally selling state gifts, potentially barring the opposition leader from contesting an upcoming election.
Legal experts say the guilty verdict reached by an Islamabad district court could eliminate Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's greatest rival in a national election expected in November.
"Police have arrested Imran Khan from his residence," Khan's lawyer, Intezar Panjotha, told Reuters. "We are filing a petition against the decision in high court."
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: imrankhan; pakistan
Pakistan showing the way..
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posted on
08/05/2023 1:51:40 PM PDT
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libh8er
To: libh8er
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posted on
08/05/2023 1:54:51 PM PDT
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libh8er
To: libh8er
Police arrested Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan in Lahore on Saturday after a court sentenced him to three years in prison for illegally selling state gifts, potentially barring the opposition leader from contesting an upcoming election.
There was a time I'd have laughed and looked down on Pakistan for stuff like this. But we've got no room to laugh about banana-republic antics anymore - we're too busy practicing them ourselves.
To: libh8er
Pakistan is becoming as corrupt as President Retard and the DOJ
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posted on
08/05/2023 1:56:54 PM PDT
by
NWFree
(Sigma male 🤪)
To: AnotherUnixGeek
the guilty verdict reached by an Islamabad district court could eliminate Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's greatest rival in a national election expected in November. How do we know the charges aren't concocted ?
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08/05/2023 1:59:20 PM PDT
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libh8er
To: AnotherUnixGeek; libh8er
Never mind, I misread your post. You were saying the same thing.
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posted on
08/05/2023 2:03:31 PM PDT
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libh8er
To: libh8er
How do we know the charges aren't concocted ?
Given Pakistan's endemic corruption, I assume they are. As I said, I'd have laughed at the Pakistanis 5 years ago for stuff like this. But these days we've got a government of our own that concocts charges against a former leader it doesn't want back in power.
To: libh8er
Imran Khan has some of the hottest ex-wives in the world:
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posted on
08/05/2023 2:16:05 PM PDT
by
nwrep
To: libh8er
That hellhole has nothing on US....
Never expected to see a day such as today :-/
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posted on
08/05/2023 2:27:55 PM PDT
by
Bobalu
(I'm homesick for a country that no longer exists...)
To: libh8er
Joe Biden sets the example for other nations.
By the way Pakistan had January 6th on May 9th in the leadup to this arrest of Imran Khan.
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posted on
08/05/2023 3:00:59 PM PDT
by
Nextrush
(FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
To: nwrep
Hurry, call Laz, he’d be on that in a major way! If he weren’t DEAD, that is 😉
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posted on
08/05/2023 3:02:49 PM PDT
by
Spacetrucker
(George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
To: libh8er
It’s sad to see Pakistan turning into a third world banana republic like the United States.
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posted on
08/05/2023 3:58:14 PM PDT
by
Skid289
(In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. )
To: libh8er
Being prime minister in Pakistan is a dangerous job. Many were murdered, executed or jailed.
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posted on
08/05/2023 4:23:33 PM PDT
by
AZJeep
To: AZJeep
Coming to a country near you.
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posted on
08/05/2023 4:27:03 PM PDT
by
21twelve
(Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
To: nwrep; dfwgator
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posted on
08/05/2023 4:34:36 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: libh8er
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posted on
08/05/2023 4:35:50 PM PDT
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: libh8er
The Obama/Biden/DC Administration taking notes and texting Jack Smith, Garland and Wray.
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posted on
08/05/2023 4:36:51 PM PDT
by
Chgogal
(Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
To: libh8er
sound familiar?
4 Aug: BBC: Imran Khan: Pakistan military is ‘petrified’ of elections
By Charlie Haynes and Derek Cai, BBC HARDTalk and BBC News, Singapore
In the last few months, the PTI has seen significant defections, and arrests of key members. But Mr Khan insists it is intact.
“How come, despite the establishment openly going against us, trying to dismantle us, how come after we are out of government, we won 30 out of 37 by-elections?”
He said the establishment had hoped that his removal from power would weaken his party. “Normally, it happens when you’re out of power for quite a while. But instead, what happened was the party’s popularity kept growing,” Mr Khan said.
“They have tried everything. They have put 10,000 people in jail, including women and peaceful protesters.”
Mr Khan’s supporters have viewed him as a political outsider since the former Pakistan cricket captain founded his party 27 years ago.
He says he faces almost 200 charges including sedition, terrorism and abetting murder which he said has seen him shuttling between his tightly guarded home and the courts...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66391332
scores of the charges involve “terrorism”, but he has been jailed for selling state gifts!
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08/05/2023 5:30:17 PM PDT
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MAGAthon
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