Khan’s party immediately complained to the Islamabad High Court, which requested a police report explaining the charges for Khan’s arrest. Chaudhry said some of Khan’s lawyers and supporters were injured in the scuffle, as were several policemen. He has claimed his ouster was illegal and a Western conspiracy and has campaigned against the government of his successor, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, demanding early elections.Īfter Khan was taken away, a scuffle broke out between Khan’s supporters and police outside the court. Khan was ousted in a no-confidence vote in April 2022. Security personnel escort a car carrying Khan as he arrives at the high court in Islamabad on Tuesday.
Khan was dragged outside the Islamabad High Court and pushed into a police vehicle by agents from the National Accountability Bureau, according to Fawad Chaudhry, a senior official with Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party.Ĭhaudhry denounced the arrest as “an abduction.” Pakistan’s independent GEO TV broadcast images of the 72-year-old Khan being pulled by security forces towards an armored vehicle, which took him away.
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