C T Online Desk: Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was arrested Tuesday, police said, during a court appearance for one of dozens of cases pending since he was booted from office last year.
“Imran Khan has been arrested in the Qadir Trust case,” the Islamabad police official Twitter account said, referring to a graft case.
Fawad Chaudhry of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party also confirmed the arrest in a tweet on Tuesday.
Chaudhry tweeted that the Islamabad High Court complex has been “occupied” by the Pakistani Rangers paramilitary and that lawyers were “being subjected to torture”.
Video footage on local media showed Khan being escorted to a Rangers vehicle.
