Pakistan court declines to cancel ex-PM Khan’s arrest warrant FMTNews FMTWorld
Supporters of former prime minister Imran Khan keep vigil outside his Lahore residence, wary of police returning to arrest him.
Khan was ousted from office by a no-confidence vote last year and has been snarled in dozens of legal cases as he campaigns for early elections and a return to office. “We never faced such a situation at any place in the past,” Islamabad police inspector-general Akbar Nasir told the court today, opposing the cancellation of the arrest warrant.Several hundred supporters of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party kept a vigil today outside his home, wary of police returning to arrest him.
Khan says he fears for his life if detained, and that authorities want him jailed to prevent him from contesting an election that must be held by October this year.As the political drama unfolds, Pakistan is in the grip of a stark economic downturn, risking default if help cannot be secured from the International Monetary Fund.
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