Pakistan’s former Prime Minister and the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan was arrested by paramilitary Rangers at the Islamabad High Court where he was attending a hearing for a corruption case.
This comes just a day after Khan accused the country’s powerful army of conspiring to assassinate him. Video footage showed the Rangers forcefully taking Khan and pushing him into a prison van. The Rangers, who work under the Interior Ministry, are usually led by army officers on secondment. Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was granted interim bail by an anti-terrorism court on Tuesday for multiple cases just hours before he was arrested by paramilitary Rangers at the Islamabad High Court, news agency PTI reported.
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) workers on Tuesday took to streets to stage protest against the party chief and former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad.
“The arrest of Imran Khan is fascism, cruelty, terrorism and hooliganism, which is being shown in the whole world by beating Imran Khan. This is an incompetent failure of the government,” senior PTI leader Sheikh Rashid Ahmed tweets.
