{"id":11996,"date":"2018-08-18T23:22:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T23:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11996"},"modified":"2018-08-18T23:22:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T23:22:28","slug":"pakistan-is-prime-minister-imran-khan-up-to-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11996","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan: Is Prime Minister Imran Khan up to the job?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"83.5020746888\">\n<p>Cricketer-turned-politician <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/features\/pakistan-elections-imran-khan-180724223110697.html\">Imran Khan<\/a> was officially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/08\/imran-khan-sworn-pakistan-prime-minister-180818053711429.html\">sworn in<\/a> as Pakistan&#8217;s new prime minister during a ceremony in the capital, Islamabad, on Saturday, marking a new beginning for politics in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Khan&#8217;s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf party (PTI) won the <a href=\"https:\/\/interactive.aljazeera.com\/aje\/2018\/live-results-pakistan-election-day-2018\/index.html\">most seats<\/a> in last month&#8217;s general election, breaking the decades-long duopoly of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan People&#8217;s Party (PPP).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Khan had campaigned for what he called a &#8220;new Pakistan&#8221;, promising to end corruption and fix the struggling economy.<\/p>\n<p>But the new leader has numerous challenges ahead, including bringing stability to cities and towns that have seen their share of violence over the years.<\/p>\n<p>So, can Imran Khan deliver on his promises?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Hoda Abdel Hamid<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Taimar Jharga &#8211; PTI member<\/p>\n<p>Wajid Shamsul Hasan &#8211; former Pakistan high commissioner to the United Kingdom<\/p>\n<p>Shiraz Paracha &#8211; director of the Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan was officially sworn in as Pakistan&#8217;s new prime minister during a ceremony in the capital, Islamabad, on Saturday, marking a new beginning for politics in the country.\u00a0 Khan&#8217;s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf party (PTI) won the most seats in last month&#8217;s general election, breaking the decades-long duopoly of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}