Khan’s arrest in a land fraud case sparked deadly and widespread protests across the country. Read more at straitstimes.com.
“Your arrest was invalid so the whole process needs to be backtracked,” Pakistan’s top judge Umar Ata Bandial told Khan, who was presented before the court that has heard an appeal against his arrest.
Violence triggered by his arrest has aggravated instability in the country of 220 million people that is grappling with a severe economic crisis. The crisis has eroded hopes of a quick resumption of an International Monetary Fund bailout programme. Mobile data services remained suspended and schools and offices were closed in two of Pakistan’s four provinces.
Violence triggered by his arrest has aggravated instability in the country of 220 million people that is grappling with a severe economic crisis. PHOTO: EPA-EFE Police have arrested more than 1,650 protesters in Khan’s home province of Punjab for violence, the police chief’s office said in a statement. Some 80 workers of Khan’s party were also arrested in the southwestern city of Quetta, police said.
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