Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan arrested, party says – National | 24CA News
Pakistani safety brokers arrested former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday as he appeared in a court docket within the capital, Islamabad, to face costs in a number of graft instances, officers from his social gathering stated.
Khan was dragged exterior and pushed right into a police car by brokers from the nation’s anti-corruption physique, the National Accountability Bureau, in keeping with Fawad Chaudhry, a senior official with the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf social gathering.
Chaudhry denounced the arrest as “an abduction.”
Pakistan’s unbiased GEO TV broadcast pictures of the 72-year-old Khan being pulled by safety forces in the direction of an armored car, which took him away.
Khan was ousted in a no-confidence vote in April 2022. He has claimed his ouster was unlawful and a Western conspiracy and has campaigned towards the federal government of his successor, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, demanding early elections.
After the previous premier was whisked away, a scuffle broke out between Khan’s supporters and police. Chaudhry stated a few of Khan’s attorneys and supporters have been injured within the scuffle, as have been a number of policemen.
Khan’s social gathering instantly complained to the Islamabad High Court, which requested a police report explaining the fees for Khan’s arrest.
Officials from the anti-corruption physique stated that Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau had issued arrest warrants for Khan final week in a separate graft case, for which he had not obtained bail — one thing that might shield him from arrest underneath the nation’s legal guidelines.
The officers, who spoke on situation of anonymity, stated Khan will probably be introduced to seem earlier than an anti-graft tribunal afterward Tuesday.
There have been no different official statements from the federal government on Khan’s arrest.
Khan had arrived in Islamabad earlier within the day from the close by metropolis of Lahore, the place he resides, to face costs earlier than the Islamabad High Court in a number of graft instances towards him. He has claimed that the string of instances towards him, which embody terrorism costs, are a plot Sharif’s authorities to discredit the previous cricket star turned Islamist politician.
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