Former prime minister of Pakistan Imran Khan was arrested by paramilitary force from outside Islamabad High Court on Tuesday.
According to Fawad Chaudhry, the official spokesperson of Imran Khan’s party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, he has been “abducted from Court premises. Scores of lawyers and general people have been tortured.”
A video of Imran Khan’s dramatic arrest outside the high court in Pakistan is being shared on social media sites.
Qadir Trust case,” the Islamabad police official Twitter account said, referring to a graft case.
Musarrat Cheema, the PTI leader, in a video message on Twitter, said: “They are torturing Imran Khan right now…they are beating Khan sahib. They have done something with Khan sahib.”
Khan’s arrest comes a day after the Pakistan Army slammed the former PM for “highly irresponsible and baseless” allegations by him against a serving ISI officer without any evidence as a fresh war of words broke out between the powerful military and the former prime minister.
In a strongly worded statement, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) – the media wing of the military- also said that Khan’s “fabricated and malicious allegations are extremely unfortunate, deplorable and unacceptable”.
“This has been a consistent pattern for last one year wherein military and intelligence agencies officials are targeted with insinuations and sensational propaganda for the furtherance of political objectives,” it said.
The statement came two days after the 70-year-old former cricketer-turned-politician at a rally on Saturday accused spy agency ISI Gen Faisal Naseer of orchestrating plans to murder him.
