Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan arrested, stirring nationwide violence

Home World Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan arrested, stirring nationwide violence 10-05-2023 10:52 AM Ammon News - Pakistan's anti-corruption agency arrests former prime minister Imran Khan at Islamabad High Court Tuesday, threatening fresh turmoil in the nuclear-armed country as clashes erupted between Khan supporters and police. Khan's arrest comes a day after the powerful military rebuked him for repeatedly accusing a senior military officer of trying to engineer his assassination and the former armed forces chief of being behind his removal from power last year. Dozens of paramilitary troops in riot-control gear surrounded Khan - Pakistan's most popular leader according to opinion polls - and led him into a black van by his arm. Authorities in three of Pakistan's four provinces imposed an emergency order banning all gatherings after Khan's supporters clashed with police, blocked major roads in a string of cities and stormed military buildings in Lahore and Rawalpindi, according to witnesses and videos shared by his party. Reuters

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Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan arrested, stirring nationwide violence

10-05-2023 10:52 AM

Ammon News - Pakistan's anti-corruption agency arrests former prime minister Imran Khan at Islamabad High Court Tuesday, threatening fresh turmoil in the nuclear-armed country as clashes erupted between Khan supporters and police.

Khan's arrest comes a day after the powerful military rebuked him for repeatedly accusing a senior military officer of trying to engineer his assassination and the former armed forces chief of being behind his removal from power last year.

Dozens of paramilitary troops in riot-control gear surrounded Khan - Pakistan's most popular leader according to opinion polls - and led him into a black van by his arm.

Authorities in three of Pakistan's four provinces imposed an emergency order banning all gatherings after Khan's supporters clashed with police, blocked major roads in a string of cities and stormed military buildings in Lahore and Rawalpindi, according to witnesses and videos shared by his party.

Reuters

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