![]() ![]() In Lahore, police fired tear gas canisters into a crowd cheering the decision. ![]() Small groups of supporters danced on the streets at news the arrest was overturned. "If he gets bail from the High Court tomorrow, we will wait for the cancellation of bail and arrest him again." "We will arrest him again," interior minister Rana Sanaullah told Dunya TV, in a stark admission of the grudge between the administration and Khan. "What we propose is that Islamabad police need to provide security, and he (Khan) will provide a list of his immediate family members and lawyers that should meet him at police lines headquarters," said Bandial, denying Khan's request to return to his farm house on the outskirts of Islamabad. Khan, 70, was ordered back to the same police headquarters where he has been sequestered for the past 48 hours on the condition it should be treated as a "residence". ![]() The onetime cricket star, who was surrounded by dozens of paramilitary troops Tuesday and manhandled into custody on graft charges at Islamabad High Court, said he had been "treated like a terrorist".Īrrests should not take place on court premises, Bandial said Thursday. Meanwhile he has become tangled in a slew of legal cases - a frequent hazard for opposition figures in Pakistan, where rights groups say courts are used to quash dissent. Since being ousted from office last April, Khan has waged a tempestuous campaign for snap elections and fired unprecedented criticism at Pakistan's leaders and powerful military elite, even accusing them of plotting a November assassination attempt which saw him shot in the leg. □ Imran Khan footage in the Supreme Court. "Your arrest was invalid so the whole process needs to be backtracked," Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial told Khan at a hearing in the capital Islamabad. Khan was ordered to remain in the bench's custody under police protection for his own safety until Friday, when he will return to the court where he was detained earlier this week. Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday declared the arrest of former prime minister Imran Khan unlawful, two days after his detention sparked deadly clashes and huge protests nationwide. ![]()
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