Protests against Imran Khan’s arrest leave at least eight dead

by time news

2023-05-11 06:40:25

At least eight people have died and there are about 290 injured in Pakistanwithin the framework of protests against the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Janaccused of corruption. There are also more than 1,900 people arrested, including the vice president of the opposition party Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI), Fawad Chaudhry, who, according to the newspaper ‘Dawn’, was arrested overnight, a day after that Asad Umar, general secretary of the PTI, was also detained.

The party has also denounced the arrest of Shah Mahmood Qureshi, former foreign minister and current vice president of the PTI, who has been transferred to “an undisclosed location.” They have shared a video of the politician speaking to the camera calls for the peaceful protests to continue and the “search for justice and following the law.”

As a consequence of the violent clashes, the Government ordered this Wednesday the deployment of the Army in the capital, Islamabad, and other towns in the northwest of the country, hot spots for the demonstrations.

Jan was dismissed in October 2022 through a motion of no confidence in Parliament, approved after the Supreme Court reversed the decision of the then Prime Minister to dissolve Parliament and announce early elections after the refusal of the Presidency of the legislative body to hold the vote in the first instance. In November, the former prime minister was shot and wounded after being shot during a protest against the new government, headed by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.

He is now in custody as authorities investigate his involvement in a corruption case derived from the alleged delivery of land to Al Qadir University in exchange for the return of an amount of money seized in the United Kingdom from the Pakistani businessman Malik Riaz. Both he and his wife, Bushra Bibi, have been accused of being behind an embezzlement of 50,000 million rupees (about 157 million euros) after an agreement with a billionaire.

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