Pakistan announced it is moving to ban former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s PTI party. This comes just days after Pakistan’s Supreme Court ruled PTI was eligible for a number of seats in national and provincial assemblies. It also comes after another court acquitted Khan and his wife on charges their marriage violated Islamic law. Khan remains behind bars on separate charges of inciting riots in 2023. The U.N. and others have deemed Khan’s detention arbitrary and said it “appears to have been intended to disqualify him from running for political office.”
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