Army deployed and police fire teargas at crowds outside police station where closed-door hearing held
Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan has been presented before a judge in a police station in Islamabad, 24 hours after his dramatic arrested by scores of paramilitary officers that led to country-wide uproar.
In Pakistan’s most populous state, Punjab, nearly 1,000 people were arrested and the army was deployed after Khan’s supporters were accused of looting government buildings and setting fire to police cars.
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