Islamabad: The Islamabad High Court on Tuesday termed former Prime Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan’s arrest as “legal,” reported Geo News.
#Watch | Amid nationwide protest in Pakistan over the arrest of PTI chief Imran Khan, protesters set Radio Pakistan building on fire
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- According to reports, Netblocks, an organisation that tracks internet outages, said access to Twitter, Facebook and Youtube was restricted across Pakistan.
- The report further added “Real-time network data show the disruption in effect on some but not all mobile and fixed-line internet providers in Pakistan at the time of writing. The study is taken from an initial sample size of 60 measurements from 30 vantage points across Pakistan,”.
- According to sources close to ANI, the Indian defence forces are keeping a close watch on the developments there.
- Indian defence forces keeping a close watch on the situation in Pakistan, in view of the developments there.
- Strong vigil being maintained by the forces along the Line of Control and the international border.
- According to reports, the Islamabad High Court has reserved verdict in a petition challenging the arrest of former PM Imran Khan.
- Reacting to the arrest of PTI chief, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif claimed that Imran Khan’s politics is defined by “blatant lies”.
- He took to Twitter and added “Bending the judiciary to your whims and behaving as if rules don’t apply to you. What I said about you in my tweet is established by facts over the past few years,”.
- The IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq took notice of the matter and summoned the Islamabad IGP and the interior secretary.
- He also directed the additional attorney general to appear before the court in 15 minutes and instructed him to immediately find out who was behind the arrest.
- Protests and demonstrations have erupted across the nation post the arrest of PTI chief Imran Khan.
- Protesters entered compounds of army commanders’ residence in Lahore and army HQ in Rawalpindi.
#WATCH | Protestors storm into the Army HQ in #Rawalpindi following former #Pakistan PM & PTI chief Imran Khan's arrest #ImranKhanArrest pic.twitter.com/odnjGgB60v
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- PTI workers protested in cities across the country, including Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Karachi, Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Multan, Peshawar, and Mardan.
- The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Khan was taken into custody by Pakistani Rangers from outside the courtroom where he had appeared in the Al Qadir Trust case.
- Imran Khan’s aide and his party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Fawad Chaudhry took to Twitter and added “Islamabad High Court has been occupied by Rangers, lawyers are being subjected to torture, Imran Khan’s car has been surrounded,”.
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