Spokesman Abdul Samad Yaqub said a paramilitary force arrested Khan at the request of the Interior Ministry’s National Audit Office and he was taken to an unknown location.
The ousted prime minister is due to appear in court on Wednesday. To face charges in more than 140 cases, including corruption, high treason and terrorism, according to Yacoub.
The next 48 hours are therefore very dangerous in terms of security, especially since the reactions of Khan’s supporters began as soon as the news of his arrest spread on Tuesday, by demonstrating in several cities, targeting certain staffs of the army and buildings and its rulers, including the corps commander’s house in Lahore.
Imran Khan, Pakistan’s first prime minister to be impeached by a vote of no confidence; Where Parliament voted in April 2022 not to stay in power for mismanagement, before completing its 5-year term, which began in 2018.
destination unknown
According to the statements of Khan’s close aide and former Minister of Information Fawad Chaudhry: “Former Prime Minister Imran Khan was removed from the court building (High Court of Islamabad) and dozens of lawyers and ordinary people were tortured.”
Chaudhry adds that unknown persons transferred Khan to an unknown location and the Chief Justice has asked authorities for further clarification on this matter.
The court previously issued an arrest warrant for Khan in March; For not appearing before her and answering the charges against him after Easter about all the diplomatic gifts he received while in office, and selling some of them to him, then she dropped the arrest warrant after he went to court the same month.
The peak of the crisis
With Khan’s arrest, the crisis of differences between him and the current government has come to a head so far, and it began after his impeachment, and his leadership since in a series of mass demonstrations and protests. to demand a snap election that would restore him to power.
Those protests included an assassination attempt on Khan in November 2022, but the bullets only hit his leg, amid a lack of clarity over the real party behind the attempt.
No Prime Minister of Pakistan has completed his term since the country’s independence from British occupation in 1947.
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