Pakistan's former prime minister, Imran Khan, has been granted bail by the Islamabad High Court, days after his dramatic arrest over corruption charges set off a deadly outpouring of anger against the country's military.
Khan left the court on Friday under police protection to return to Lahore. Before leaving, he predicted he could be arrested again, despite a court order barring authorities from arresting him on any charges until Monday.
"For 27 years I've been in politics... Show me one message which has been different to this...every time I have told my followers, stay within the constitution. When you do protest, be peaceful....We have never broken the law, even now when I tell them to protest, I say they should be peaceful protests. I have always said that," Khan said.
Khan was ousted in a parliamentary no-confidence vote last year and has since led a popular campaign against the current government led by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, accusing it of colluding with senior military leaders to remove him from office and keep him locked out of politics.
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