'An unstable Pakistan is not good for the world, it's not good for the region,' a former official of Imran Khan's administration tells Newsweek.
The arrest and sentencing of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan amid a protracted political drama that has played out since his ousting last year has sparked a new wave of tensions in the nuclear-armed nation of 240 million people.
"When you try to basically dismantle, arrest, abduct the most popular man in the country and then sooner or later put all the party leaders in prison or in hiding, it's not going to cause any form of stability, which is going to lead to further economic instability, which is going to lead to Pakistan being destabilized," Syed Zulfiqar Bukhari, who served as Khan's special assistant on overseas Pakistanis and human resource development, told"And an unstable Pakistan is not...
Imran Khan has denied this charge along with the others levied against him, calling them part of a political plot to silence his party, which remains the most popular in the country, and to prevent him from running in the upcoming elections. In the wake of the latest ruling, the Electoral Commission of Pakistan announced that Imran Khan would be barred from holding public office for five years, further eroding his hopes to return to power.
Police personnel arrest PTI party members during a protest denouncing the arrest of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, during a protest in Peshawar on August 5. That day, Khan was arrested at his home in Lahore after a court in the capital found him guilty of graft and sentenced him to three years in jail.
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