Ex-Pakistani PM Imran Khan arrested :Protests in Pakistan

Protests have erupted in Pakistani cities after former Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested as he appeared in a court in the capital, Islamabad, to face corruption allegations.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party urged supporters to take to the streets and thousands of Khan’s supporters took to the streets in the capital Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar and other cities to protest against his arrest.Since his removal from power last year, Khan has been slapped with dozens of charges, which he denies and says are politically motivated.

“Imran Khan has been arrested in the Qadir Trust case,” the Islamabad police said on its official Twitter account, referring to a corruption case.

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has been shot

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has been shot and wounded in the leg, in an attack on his protest march in Wazirabad.

Officials say that one of Khan’s supporters was killed in the shooting in Wazirabad. Several officials of Khan’s PTI party were also injured.

The gunman said he wanted to kill Khan and had acted alone. Pakistani police have released a video of a gunman who was arrested at the scene of Kahn’s shooting.

Fawad Chaudhry, a spokesperson for Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, told that “if the shooter had not been stopped by people there, the entire PTI leadership would have been wiped out.”