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Here’s where the concern comes in, though: Mr Khan has a huge support base – in the hundreds of thousands – and when you speak to his followers, they’ll tell you he is being persecuted, a victim of a corrupt system. There has been no proof of this political witch hunt, but that hasn’t stopped party loyalists from believing it.