Pakistan police storm Imran Khan’s home as former PM heads to court – National | 24CA News

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Published 18.03.2023
Pakistan police storm Imran Khan’s home as former PM heads to court – National | 24CA News

Police in Pakistan stormed former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s residence within the japanese metropolis of Lahore on Saturday and arrested 30 individuals amid tear gasoline shelling after somebody opened fireplace from the roof of the constructing, officers stated.

Senior police officer Suhail Sukhera, who led the operation in an upscale Lahore neighbourhood, stated police moved to take away a barricade erected by members of Khan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf get together and his defiant supporters. He stated they blocked the lanes round Khan’s residence with concrete blocks, felled bushes, tents and a parked truck.

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Khan was not within the residence, having traveled to Islamabad to seem earlier than a decide to face fees he offered state presents whereas in workplace and hid his property. The decide postponed that listening to till an unspecified future date.

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Sukhera stated baton-wielding Khan supporters tried to withstand police by throwing stones and Molotov cocktails and a person on the roof of Khan’s residence opened fireplace, No one was damage.

Sukhera stated police broke open the principle door of Khan’s residence and located masks, petrol-filled bottles, iron rods and batons utilized in assaults on police throughout the week. Sukhera stated that contained in the sprawling residence, unlawful constructions had been erected to shelter those that have been concerned in assaults on police which have injured dozens of officers.

Witnesses stated police tried to disperse Khan supporters by firing tear gasoline and chased them to a number of properties within the Zaman Park neighbourhood. Khan was anticipated to seem in an Islamabad court docket on Saturday after a prime court docket Friday suspended his arrest warrant, giving him a reprieve to journey to Islamabad and face fees in a graft case with out being detained.


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Khan had been holed up at his residence in Lahore since Tuesday, after failing to seem at an earlier listening to within the case. His supporters hurled stones and clashed with baton-wielding police for 2 days to guard the previous premier from arrest.

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Khan’s motorcade arrived close to the federal judicial complicated in Islamabad, the place his supporters additionally clashed with police who had been stopping them from coming into the complicated. The enraged Khan supporters threw rocks at police and in reply police lobbed tear gasoline canisters to disperse them.

Khan’s lawyer, Babar Awan, filed an software for Khan’s exemption from look in court docket amid particular circumstances.

Khan, throughout his highway journey to Islamabad, stated in a video message that police had damaged into his residence in Lahore whereas his spouse was alone on the residence. He condemned the motion and demanded that these accountable be punished.

Khan, now the opposition chief, was ousted in a no-confidence vote in Parliament final April. He is accused of promoting state presents whereas in workplace and concealing property, fees he denies. It’s one in a string of circumstances that the previous cricket star turned Islamist politician has been going through since his ouster.

The 70-year-old has additionally claimed that his elimination from energy was a part of a conspiracy by his successor, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, and the United States. Both Washington and Sharif’s authorities have denied the allegations.

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