Ex-Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was arrested Tuesday exterior the Islamabad Excessive Court docket, native media reported. In a video shared on-line by Dr Shahzad Waseem, the Chief of the Opposition within the neighbouring nation, and retweeted by Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf, the previous cricketer is surrounded by a sea of safety personnel – wearing black riot gear and wielding shields and lathis – and is being dragged right into a ready car.

Pak broadcaster GEO TV broadcast pictures of Khan being taken away and, after that, a scuffle broke out between the ex-PM’s supporters and the police.

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The PTI has complained to the courtroom, which has requested a police report explaining the costs and causes for Khan’s arrest, the Related Press stated.

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“After torturing individuals and breaking courtroom home windows, Imran Khan was arrested from courtroom premises. The nation is at the moment within the grip of the worst fascism… the place there isn’t a such factor as Structure and regulation left…” Waseem tweeted.

The tweet carried the hashtag #BehindYourSkipper.

PTI chief Azhar Mashwani alleged Khan had been ‘kidnapped’ by Pakistan Rangers, an elite paramilitary pressure, and known as for nationwide protests.

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Fawad Chaudhry, a senior PTI official stated Imran Khan, 72, was arrested by the Pakistan’s anti-corruption physique, the Nationwide Accountability Bureau. Chaudhry stated Khan had been dragged out of the courtroom; he too decried it as ‘an abduction’.

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Officers from the anti-corruption physique stated Khan was arrested in a separate corruption case – for which he had not obtained bail – and that he can be introduced earlier than a tribunal later at present.

The Pakistan authorities has responded by way of inside minister Rana Sanaullah, who tweeted to say Khan was arrested for failing to reply courtroom summons.

“The arrest has been carried out by the Nationwide Accountability Bureau for inflicting losses to the nationwide treasury. No violence was carried out to him.”

In line with Pak newspaper Daybreak, the Islamabad Excessive Court docket is lower than impressed by Khan being whisked away from its premises and has summoned senior authorities and police officers to elucidate their actions.

Imran Khan was ousted in a no-confidence vote in April.

He has since claimed (repeatedly) his ouster was unlawful and half of a bigger Western conspiracy, and has campaigned towards his successor Shahbaz Sharif to demand an early election.

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