Pakistani police and supporters of Imran Khan fought pitched battles outside the former prime minister's home in Lahore on Tuesday, wounding several on both sides, ahead of his expected arrest, a government spokesman and witnesses said.
Khan aide Shah Mehmood Qureshi told reporters the former prime minister had secured "protective bail" from a court.Khan has been demanding a snap election in protest rallies across the country since his ouster from office in a parliamentary vote early last year. That demand was rejected by his successor, Shehbaz Sharif, who has said the vote would be held as scheduled later this year.
"If Imran Khan ensures his presence in the court, it will be good, otherwise the law will take its course.""Police have come to arrest and send me to jail," he said in a video recorded statement posted on twitter. "If something happens to me, or sent to jail, or they kill me, you've to prove that this nation will continue to struggle even without Imran Khan.
Khan's supporters started pelting police with stones and bricks, and in response police directed a water cannon at them and in some cases baton charged them, he said. Live TV footage showed Khan supporters also using sling-shots and attacking the police with bricks and sticks.A small number of his supporters also blocked roads in protest against Khan's possible arrest in other cities.
Writing by Asif Shahzad; Additional Reporting by Gibran Peshimam; Editing by William Maclean, Mark Porter and Nick Macfie
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