Police have fired water cannon and tear gas to quell demurrers that erupted in several metropolises across Pakistan hours after former Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested in connection with a corruption case.
Thousands of Khan’s sympathizers took to the thoroughfares on Tuesday in the capital Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar and other metropolises to protest against hisarrest.At least one worker for Khan’s party was killed in Quetta, Shireen Mazari, former minister and elderly leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf( PTI) party told media.
In Islamabad, hundreds of PTI activists blocked the main Kashmir Highway, which suspended business on either side of the road. Reporting from Islamabad, Al Jazeera’s Kamal Hyder said “ a precarious situation ” is developing following Khan’s arrest. “ As the reports of Imran Khan’s arrest went across the country, protesters( took) to the thoroughfares and apprehensions are being made, ” Hyder said. “ There's considerable wrathfulness as far as Imran Khan’s sympathizers are concerned and the situation is raising by the hour. ”
Hyder added that officers anticipated the demurrers and have advised the public against sharing in them. “ The inspector general of Islamabad police has said that anybody coming out to protest should be arrested, ” he said. Original broadcaster Geo News reported that police have arrested over a dozen of PTI workers after the two sides disaccorded at several points in thecity.In Lahore, the country’s alternate- largest megacity, protesters gathered outside the former high minister’s Zaman Park hearthstone and blocked the conterminous roads by burning tyres. Police used water cannon to disperse the protesters.
In the southern harborage megacity of Karachi, PTI sympathizers gathered outside the original party office located along the megacity’s busiest Shahrah-e-Faisal Road. Both tracks of the road near the PTI office were closed to business as heavy contingents of police cordoned off the area. Police also hurled tear gas drums to disperse the protesters when they tried to block the road. A group of protesters dashed monuments and burned tyres at Burns Road, the megacity’s notorious food road, suspending business and forcing shopkeepers to pull their shutters campo.
In northwestern Landi Kotal city, which borders neighbouring Afghanistan, protesters blocked the Pak- Afghan trace at two points, Dawn News reported. “ We'll block the entire country and kick until Khan is released, ” Waseem Qayyum, a protester, told dpa newsagency.Khan’s arrest followed months of political extremity and came hours after the country’s important military rebuked the former transnational cricketer for professing a elderly officer had been involved in a plot to kill him. “ Imran Khan has been arrested in the Qadir Trust case, ” the sanctioned Islamabad police Twitter account said, pertaining to a corruption case.
videotape broadcast on original television channels showed Khan – who has a pronounced limp since being shot during an assassination attempt last time – being manhandled by dozens of civil rangers into an armoured auto inside the Islamabad High Court demesne. It wasn't incontinently clear where he was taken. Anticipating his arrest, party officers latterly released apre-recorded videotape by Khan in which he prompted sympathizers to come out in support of “ true freedom ”. “ My Pakistanis, by the time these words reach you, I would have been detained under an illegitimate case, ” he says in the videotape. “ One thing should come clear for all of you from this is that abecedarian rights in Pakistan, the rights given to us by our constitution and republic, have been buried.
” Pakistan is deeply mired in an profitable and political extremity, with Khan obliging the floundering coalition government for early choices.
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