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Pakistan court further extends stay on ex-PM Imran Khan’s arrest

Pakistan court further extends stay on ex-PM Imran Khan’s arrest

A Pakistani excessive court docket prolonged the keep on former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s arrest by yet one more day.

It ordered police to postpone an operation to arrest the cricketer-turned-politician, defusing a surge in violence that noticed his supporters combating pitched battles with safety forces.

Khan’s aide Fawad Chaudhry stated the Lahore excessive court docket had prolonged an order to halt the police operation till Friday. The state data minister, Amir Mir, confirmed the court docket order.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, dozens of Khan’s supporters, armed with batons and sling-shots, barricaded his residence to stop safety forces from arresting him for failing to indicate up in court docket over a sequence of corruption expenses involving illegally promoting state items given to him whereas he was prime minister.

The court-ordered try to arrest Khan, which started Tuesday, triggered clashes between his supporters and safety forces in his Lahore neighborhood, elevating fears concerning the political stability of nuclear-armed Pakistan because it faces an financial disaster.

The violence, during which protesters torched police automobiles, a water-cannon truck and scores of automobiles and bikes and hurled petrol bombs at safety forces firing tear gasoline and rubber bullets, subsided after the excessive court docket halted the police operation Wednesday.

A decrease court docket in Islamabad had issued a warrant in opposition to former worldwide cricketer Khan for defying orders to current himself in court docket over expenses that he unlawfully offered state items given to him by overseas dignitaries when he was prime minister from 2018 to 2022.

Khan denies the costs. The National Election Commission had discovered him responsible and barred Khan from holding public workplace for one parliamentary time period.

The authorized proceedings in opposition to Khan started after he was ousted from workplace in a parliamentary vote early final 12 months. Since then, he has been demanding a snap election and holding nationwide protest rallies, and was shot and wounded in one in every of these rallies.

Current Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has rejected Khan’s calls for, saying the election can be held as scheduled later this 12 months.

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