Imran Khan's protests have erupted across Pakistan after the rest of the former prime minister.
Imran Khan was arrested by security forces at the high court in the capital.
Islamabad He was there to face corruption charges, which he says are politically motivated. Mobile internet was suspended on government orders as the protests grew, and government officers and schools would be closed nation-wide on Wednesday.
The army headquarters in Rawalpindi was one of several sensitive sites targeted in Lahore. Demonstrators torched and vandalised the residents of the corps commander's residence.
That’s the headquarters of Pakistan's paramilitary frontier force. Protesters also entered the hamza camp of Pakistan’s spy agency, the underservices intelligence, or ISI.
Sticks, stones, and flames poring of anger across Pakistan; it’s not the government that’s the prime target of this theory, but the military, in unprecedented scenes of support for former prime minister Imran Khan.
The army headquarters in Rawalpindi as well as the paramilitary francia force headquarters are blaming the military for Khan's being erased at a court in Islamabad. What they have done is not this.
The sometimes checked and always controversial political career of Pakistan’s former prime minister and cricket captain Imran Khan has once again been highlighted across the country. As he waited in court, where he was already appearing on corruption charges, he was grabbed by a phalanx of security forces in riot gear and dramatically frog marched into the back of an armoured vehicle. His arrest today was in connection with a different corruption case, and tonight his supporters have been holding demonstrations across the country.
Protesters raiding the home of a military commander have long influenced politics in Pakistan, but rarely has it been the subject of such public fury.
Khan’s most senior supporters say he’s been kidnapped and fear he’s been tortured, as has anyone from PTI.
Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has been arrested, triggering protests and violence in many of the country’s cities.
According to his lawyers, he was the leader of the opposition while attending the high court building in Islamabad.
And was removed by security agents from the paramilitary national accountability bureau. Police and government officials say that he was taken for questioning and a routine medical check-up. Some of Khan’s lawyers and supporters were injured in the aftermath.
In subsequent disturbances, at least one person was reported killed in Quetta, the capital of the province; there are also reports of several wounded in Karachi, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, and Lahore. Khan’s arrest came hours after he issued a video message before heading to Islamabad, saying he was mentally prepared for arrest here.
The sometimes checked and always controversial political career of Pakistan’s former prime minister and cricket captain Imran Khan has once again been highlighted across the country. As he waited in court, where he was already appearing on corruption charges, he was grabbed by a phalanx of security forces in riot gear and dramatically frog marched into the back of an armoured vehicle. His arrest today was in connection with a different corruption case, and tonight his supporters have been holding demonstrations across the country.
You must be logged in to post a comment.