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Pakistan has locked down Imran Khan’s stronghold - but it could backfire
Schools closed. The internet partially shut. Roads blocked by shipping containers. And the army arriving in town.
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His party says he has been arrested; the government says that he is in protective custody. "There is a sense that, we have all the cards in our hands. I think that's the most unfortunate part of this mess that we're in, that we are going into it with our eyes wide open."Everybody realises that this is a train crash but somehow you can't stop it."-BBC
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People
- Imran Khan2
- Farzana Sheikh
- Sohail Afridi
- Attah Tarrar
- Arifa Noor
Organisations
- Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
- PTI KPK
Places
- Pakistan2
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Chatham House."I
- Khyber district
- Peshawar
- Bara
Keywords
- stronghold2
- backfire2
- locked2
- could2
- down2
- but2
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