by Press Trust of IndiaPakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan is likely to appear in the Lahore High Court today in a case registered against him for setting fire to a corps commander’s house here and other incidents of violence following his arrest last week.
Despite being granted bail on Friday, Khan returned to his Lahore home on Saturday after locking himself inside the Islamabad High Court (IHC) premises for hours fearing re-arrest. The IHC granted bail to Khan, 70, while restraining him from arrest in all cases registered after May 9, and asked him to approach the Lahore High Court for further relief on May 15.
In the Al Qadir Trust case, in which the former cricketer-turned-politician was arrested by the National Accountability Bureau on May 9, the IHC granted him pre-arrest bail for two weeks.
The Supreme Court declared Khan’s arrest from the IHC premises illegal and referred the case to the IHC.
A senior leader of Khan’s party said, “The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman has approached the LHC to seek pre-arrest bail in six cases registered against him in Lahore and other parts of Punjab province after May 9.” He is likely to appear before it.” told PTI on Sunday.
They said Khan held a meeting with party leaders (who still managed to evade arrest) at his Zaman Park residence here and discussed the party’s future strategy. His appearance before the LHC was also discussed.
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He said that the government and the establishment are desperate to arrest Khan for any trivial matter.
On 10 May, the Punjab Police filed five other FIRs against Khan and his supporters for attacking and damaging state buildings and military installations, besides attacking hundreds of his party workers and setting fire to the Corps Commander House in Lahore. It was
Khan and his deputy Shah Mehmood Qureshi and others have been implicated in murder, terrorism and 20 other heinous crimes for last Tuesday’s attack on the senior army commander’s house, known as ‘Jinnah House’, in Lahore Cantonment.
Khan’s arrest on Tuesday by Pakistan Rangers at the IHC compound sparked unrest in Pakistan that continued until Friday with several deaths and dozens of military and state installations destroyed by protesters.
For the first time in Pakistan’s history, protesters stormed the Army Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi and set fire to the Corps Commander’s house in Lahore.
Police put the death toll in the violent clashes at 10, while Khan’s party claimed 40 of its workers were killed in firing by security personnel.
Punjab Police Inspector General Dr. Usman Anwar told a press conference on Sunday that more than 3,500 people have been arrested in Punjab province for their involvement in the violence that broke out after Khan’s arrest. He said most of them would be tried in anti-terrorism courts.
Khan was ousted from power in April last year after losing a no-confidence vote in his leadership, which he alleged was part of a US-led conspiracy targeting him because of his independent foreign policy decisions on Russia, China and Afghanistan. was part of.
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