Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was arrested from outdoors the Islamabad Excessive Courtroom by Rangers on Tuesday, Pakistan media reported. Khan, the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), was taken into custody from a court docket premises in Islamabad in a corruption case, the reviews indicated.

“Imran Khan’s automobile has been surrounded,” Khan’s aide Fawad Chaudhry stated with out confirming his arrest. Data minister Marriyum Aurangzeb didn’t instantly reply to information company Reuters request searching for affirmation of the report.

One other PTI chief Azhar Mashwani alleged that 70-year-old Khan had been “kidnapped” from contained in the court docket by the Rangers. He stated that the social gathering had given a direct name for staging protests within the nation.

“They’re torturing Imran Khan proper now […] they’re beating Khan sahib. They’ve executed one thing with Khan sahib,” Cheema stated in a video message posted on the social gathering’s Twitter deal with.

Khan’s arrest comes a day after the Pakistan Military slammed the previous PM for “extremely irresponsible and baseless” allegations by him in opposition to a serving ISI officer with none proof as a contemporary disagreement broke out between the highly effective navy and the previous prime minister.

In a strongly worded assertion, the Inter-Companies Public Relations (ISPR) – the media wing of the military- additionally stated that Khan’s “fabricated and malicious allegations are extraordinarily unlucky, deplorable and unacceptable”.

“This has been a constant sample for final one 12 months whereby navy and intelligence companies officers are focused with insinuations and sensational propaganda for the furtherance of political targets,” it stated.

The assertion got here two days after the 70-year-old former cricketer-turned-politician at a rally on Saturday accused spy company ISI Gen Faisal Naseer of orchestrating plans to homicide him.

Earlier, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif took the PTI chief to job for “maligning and threatening” the military and intelligence companies.

(With inputs from companies)