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Pak opposition leader on hunger strike
Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:17:47
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Former cricket icon, Imran Khan
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Prominent Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan has started a hunger strike in prison to protest the imposition of the emergency rule.
Once a national cricket hero, Imran Khan has now turned out to be one of the most outspoken critics of General Pervez Musharraf.
"Khan is prepared to go as far as it takes with the hunger strike," said his spokesman, Seth Niazi, on Monday.
"He is on a hunger strike until the judiciary is restored to the status it was before the imposition of the emergency rule on Nov. 3," Niazi said.
"Seeing that he is now locked up in jail, there is no other way of protesting -so this is the only way, and this is what he has chosen to do," added Niazi.
Pakistani police detained Khan, Chief of Tehrik-e-Insaf party, last week after he emerged from his hideout to lead a student protest against Musharraf.
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