8 Killed, 290 Injured as Pakistan Hurtles Towards Civil War
Guwahati: At least eight people have died and more than 290 have been injured in ongoing skirmishes with law officials across Pakistan after Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested.
The fighting resulted in the destruction of several government structures, including police stations, and the detention of around 1,900 protesters and Imran Khan supporters.
After an accountability court in Islamabad on Wednesday ordered the former Pakistani prime minister to be held in NAB prison for eight days in connection with the Al Qadir Trust case, rioting broke out. A few hours after Asad Umar, the central secretary general of the PTI, was arrested, Fawad Chaudhry, the senior vice president of the party, was also imprisoned.
The administration had to send the military to Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Islamabad to stop the situation from getting worse. The deployment took place after protesters ransacked the home of the corps commander in Lahore and tore down a gate at GHQ in Rawalpindi.
Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi, a former Pakistani foreign minister and vice chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), was arrested by Islamabad police and taken to an undisclosed location.
“Tehreek-e-Insaf Vice Chairman Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi has been arrested by the Islamabad Police and transferred to an unknown location,” the party tweeted on Thursday.
According to reports, after an unsuccessful police attempt on Wednesday afternoon, Qureshi was apprehended from the Gilgit-Baltistan House in Islamabad.
Imran Khan was arrested on Tuesday in connection with a corruption investigation and appeared before the accountability court at the Police Lines Headquarters. The former premier at the Police Lines will be the subject of an accountability bureau investigation.
Police are looking for Qureshi in connection with rioting and arson charges in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Qureshi urged PTI members to continue the fight for genuine freedom in the nation before to his detention.
