{"id":342497,"date":"2023-03-14T23:51:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T05:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=342497"},"modified":"2023-03-14T23:56:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T05:26:13","slug":"lahores-zaman-park-under-siege-after-clashes-between-police-and-imran-khans-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/lahores-zaman-park-under-siege-after-clashes-between-police-and-imran-khans-supporters\/","title":{"rendered":"Lahore&#8217;s Zaman Park under siege after clashes between police and Imran Khan&#8217;s supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Pakistan-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-342498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/03\/Pakistan-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/03\/Pakistan-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/03\/Pakistan-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/03\/Pakistan-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/03\/Pakistan-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/03\/Pakistan-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/03\/Pakistan.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lahore: &nbsp;Tear gas shells, burnt tyres and vehicles litter the roads in Lahore&#8217;s Zaman Park area which has turned into a battleground after supporters of Imran Khan engaged in pitched battles lasting over 11 hours with police personnel to stop them from arresting the ousted Pakistan premier, resulting in injuries to dozens to policemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) workers and police clashed on Tuesday in Lahore&#8217;s Zaman Park area after a contingent of the Islamabad police, along with armoured vehicles, reached party chief Khan&#8217;s Lahore home to arrest him after a non-bailable warrant was issued in the ongoing Toshakhana (gift depository) case against him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Clearly &#8216;arrest&#8217; claim was mere drama because real intent is to abduct &amp; assassinate. From tear gas &amp; water cannons, they have now resorted to live firing. I signed a surety bond last evening, but the DIG refused to even entertain it. There is no doubt of their mala fide intent,&#8221; Khan tweeted on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: &nbsp;Tear gas shells, burnt tyres and vehicles litter the roads in Lahore&#8217;s Zaman Park area which has turned into a battleground after supporters of Imran Khan engaged in pitched battles lasting over 11 hours with police personnel to stop them from arresting the ousted Pakistan premier, resulting in injuries to dozens to policemen. Pakistan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":342498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15084,36],"tags":[16297,16061,16298,16295,16296],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342500,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342497\/revisions\/342500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/342498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}