With former PM Imran Khan in custody, Pakistani authorities have cracked down on his supporters, detaining hundreds in overnight raids.
Supreme Court chief justice Umar Ata Bandial also asked Khan toThe supporters of Khan were seen dancing near the court building to celebrate his release.
Clashes with police since Khan’s dramatic arrest on Tuesday have left at least 10 of his supporters dead and dozens injured, along with more than 200 policemen injured. Demonstrators burned down a railway station on the outskirts of the capital, Islamabad, on Wednesday night. On Thursday, they clashed with police in neighborhoods around Pakistan’s second largest city, Lahore, setting fire to a police car and blocking a train.
After briefly hearing a petition from Khan’s lawyer, the Supreme Court on Thursday expressed displeasure over the manner in which Khan was arrested and ordered authorities to present him before it in an hour, raising speculation it would order him freed. Khan’s lawyer had sought his release, arguing that the arrest was illegal.
In an address to the nation late Wednesday, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif — who took over after Khan was removed in April last year— said the unrest by the former premier’s followers had “damaged sensitive public and private property,” forcing him to deploy the military in Islamabad, in Punjab — Pakistan’s most populous province -- and in volatile regions of the northwest.
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