Posted on 05/09/2023 6:15:12 AM PDT by Red Badger
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested on Tuesday by paramilitary troops who smashed their way into a courthouse in Islamabad to detain him on multiple corruption charges.
The dramatic and sudden arrest former cricket star turned leader is the latest chapter in months of ongoing political turmoil in the nuclear armed nation after Khan was ousted last year.
According to court documents seen CNN, Khan was arrested in Islamabad on charges brought by the National Accountability Bureau, the country’s anti-corruption agency.
He was submitting his biometric data for a court appearance when paramilitary forces broke down a window to get to him before apprehending him, as seen in a video provided to CNN by his party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
In the video, paramilitary forces attacked Islamabad High Court premises before arresting Khan who watched impassively at the unfolding chaos while wearing dark sunglasses.
A separate video sent to CNN by PTI showed paramilitary troops piling out of cars and holding batons before the arrest.
Khan said he was “detained on incorrect charges” in a pre-recorded statement released on YouTube by PTI after his arrest.
“By the time you will receive these words of mine, I will have been detained on incorrect charges, Pakistan constitution, which gives us rights, which gives us democracy, has been buried. Perhaps I won’t get the opportunity to speak to you again.”
Khan claims in the video statement, “I have always followed the law. I am being apprehended so that I can’t follow my political path for this country’s fundamental rights and for me to obey this corrupt govt of crooks which has been hoisted on us.”
Khan appealed to his supporters to “come out for your fundamental rights; no nation is handed its freedom on a plate; ...
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America soon to become Pakistan…
It’s enough to make one lose faith in the Pakistani judiciary.
Video
Scenes of Imran Khan arrest from the inside Islamabad High Court
https://rumble.com/v2mu7yy-scenes-of-imran-khan-arrest-from-the-inside-islamabad-high-court.html
Outside
Video of arrest
Pakistan’s former PM Imran Khan arrested by paramilitary forces outside Islamabad High Court
https://rumble.com/v2mu5gi-pakistans-former-pm-imran-khan-arrested-by-paramilitary-forces-outside-isla.html
He was at court and paramilitary busted in and grabbed him
When the dept of misinformation has the power to arrest and jail people ..we are there.
Did the FBI grab him?
Their version....National Accountability Bureau, the country’s anti-corruption agency.................
He was a sports, cricket, star.....................
At this point, I’m not sure the situation isn’t reversed. Pakistan is becoming more like the USA, except in Pakistan they kill you if you are a man and pretending to be woman.
So who is in charge of this paramilitary? And where’s the regular military? These ppl remind me of Al-Queda and Taliban thugs who lived by their own set of codes and rules not conducive with civilized society. Sure hope they never get their hands on Pakistan’s nuclear weapons.
Their version of our FBI, the National Accountability Bureau, the country’s anti-corruption agency.................
Those who Khan do. Those who Khan’t, teach..............
I know.
Athletes get all the good looking women.
I have no idea why.........................🤷♂️
Them and singers.
Mick Jagger so ugly, even black people go, “He got some big ass lips!”
That would explain his arrest.
The real question: Should we care?
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