Khan, 70, is the South Asian nation’s most popular leader, according to opinion polls. Read more at straitstimes.com.
faces an increasingly tough challenge in his bid to regain office in elections to be held by November.since ouster last year
The cricket star-turned-politician predicted then that he would be jailed again, although he said he would be tried by a military court. Saturday’s decision was from the district court in Islamabad. With that, Khan became the latest in an unbroken line of elected Pakistani prime ministers who did not serve their full terms.as he led his supporters to Islamabad, seeking snap general elections.Once criticised as being under the thumb of the generals, Khan had a falling out with the then-army chief, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, leading to his ouster.
In 2011, Khan began drawing huge crowds of young Pakistanis disillusioned with endemic corruption, chronic electricity shortages and crises in education and unemployment.
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