{"id":4205,"date":"2012-08-25T20:25:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T01:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/?p=4205"},"modified":"2012-08-25T20:25:02","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T01:25:02","slug":"pankaj-mishra-pakistans-imran-khan-must-be-doing-something-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2012\/08\/25\/pankaj-mishra-pakistans-imran-khan-must-be-doing-something-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Pankaj Mishra &#8211; Pakistan\u2019s Imran Khan Must be Doing Something Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Khan\u2019s intense nationalism, aroused on cricket fields in the late \u201970s when darker-skinned cricketers from the former British Empire finally began to beat white teams regularly, was whetted in the 1990s by the anti-West rhetoric of Asian leaders like Malaysia\u2019s Mahathir Mohamad and Singapore\u2019s Lee Kuan Yew, and then by the post-9\/11 perception that the United States had bribed and bullied Pakistan into its misconceived war on terror and was now controlling the country\u2019s internal affairs. \u201cThe Musharraf years were so shameful,\u201d he told me. \u201cThe Westoxified Pakistanis have been selling their souls and killing their own people for a few million dollars. And then the Americans come in with shady deals to bring Benazir Bhutto back and let crooked people like Zardari go scot-free. I was so disgusted, and if I hadn\u2019t been in politics I would have left Pakistan.\u201d More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/19\/magazine\/pakistans-imran-khan-must-be-doing-something-right.html?_r=2&#038;pagewanted=all\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khan\u2019s intense nationalism, aroused on cricket fields in the late \u201970s when darker-skinned cricketers from the former British Empire finally began to beat white teams regularly, was whetted in the 1990s by the anti-West rhetoric of Asian leaders like Malaysia\u2019s Mahathir Mohamad and Singapore\u2019s Lee Kuan Yew, and then by the post-9\/11 perception that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2012\/08\/25\/pankaj-mishra-pakistans-imran-khan-must-be-doing-something-right\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pankaj Mishra &#8211; Pakistan\u2019s Imran Khan Must be Doing Something Right<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4206,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205\/revisions\/4206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}