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(单词翻译:双击或拖选)
The arrest of Imran Khan triggered protests across Pakistan
Pakistan's paramilitary forces arrested former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday. The move has escalated2 political tensions at a time of economic distress3 in the country.
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:
A judge in Pakistan is ordering that the former prime minister, Imran Khan, be held for at least eight days. The ruling comes a day after he was arrested by paramilitary forces, which touched off violent, and sometimes deadly, protests across Pakistan.
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
He is in the custody4 of the security forces after a chaotic5 day in Islamabad. The ousted6 prime minister is campaigning to get his job back, but he faces many corruption7 cases. And he was in court on one charge yesterday when paramilitary forces arrested him to face charges in a different case. The arrest of a politician who is seeking office again triggered protests across the country.
MARTIN: NPR international correspondent Diaa Hadid lives in Islamabad and has been following all this and is with us now.
Diaa, hello.
DIAA HADID, BYLINE8: Hi there.
MARTIN: So what's happening today?
HADID: Well, today it's fairly quiet. People are staying home. Schools are closed. Embassies are closed. The streets are clear. But there's a lot of action around a police compound on Islamabad's outskirts9, and that's where the former prime minister attended a hastily arranged hearing of an anti-corruption court. He was arrested, as Steve noted10, on that court's orders, in a case surrounding money allegedly funneled11 to a powerful building tycoon12. Now, Khan says the case is politically motivated. It's to stop him from running in elections.
MARTIN: So the court case is being held in a police compound. I mean, that seems unusual. Is it? Is that for security, to keep people out?
HADID: It's highly unusual, and it's certainly to keep people out. Police even used shipping13 containers to block the road leading to the compound. And outside, we met a member of Khan's party, known as PTI. Now, the name of the member we met is Shah Mahmood Qureshi, and we and other members of the press surrounded him.
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HADID: Can PTI still go to elections without Imran Khan running?
SHAH MAHMOOD QURESHI: Imran Khan is ruling the hearts of the people of Pakistan. Imran Khan, whether in jail or out of jail, will haunt them. Imran Khan is unstoppable.
MARTIN: OK. So he's saying Imran Khan will haunt them. Tell me - help us understand what he's saying. Do you think he was caught up in the drama, or is there more to it? I mean, that - this suggests there's something about deeper tensions in Pakistan.
HADID: Right. I mean, certainly politics in Pakistan, like politics in most places, has an element of theater. But I do think there is something deeper going on here. One of Imran Khan's lawyers, Babar Awan, went as far to tell us that he believed the country is under undeclared martial14 law. And his reference there to the military is important because for many of Khan's followers15, this is now a showdown between their leader and the army. That is Pakistan's most powerful institution. It's always been widely revered16 and feared, but now people say something feels different.
MARTIN: Different how?
HADID: Well, consider what happened yesterday. After Khan's arrest by a paramilitary force known as the Rangers17, his followers rioted outside army installations. They set fire to a commander's home. They broke open the gates leading to the country's military headquarters. They were led by a middle-aged18 woman in a headscarf. No one can recall anything like this happening in Pakistan before, and Khan's followers are largely middle-class, like Ruhi. She's 38. We met outside the police compound, and she tells me she grew up worshipping the army. But now she says their treatment of Imran Khan has turned her against the institution, and now she accuses them of destabilizing the country. She even put her hand to her neck like, we've had it up to here with them.
MARTIN: That is NPR's Diaa Hadid.
Diaa, thank you so much.
HADID: Thank you, Michel.
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