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Police arrive at Pakistan’s ex-PM Imran Khan’s Lahore home. Khan ‘evades’, levels counter-allegations

Islamabad Police has tweeted Khan is trying to 'avoid arrest'. Khan hit back with allegations of corruption against current PM Shehbaz Sharif, alleged Pakistan is a 'banana republic'.

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New Delhi: Amid severe economic meltdown in Pakistan, the Islamabad Police arrived Sunday at Lahore’s Zaman Park area to arrest former Prime Minister Imran Khan from his residence.

The Islamabad Police’s arrival to arrest Khan is in relation to warrants issued in the gift repository case against him. Khan has been accused of buying expensive gifts given to him in an official capacity at a discount from the state depositary, or the Toshkhana, and selling them for a profit when he was prime minister.

As the police descended on his residence, Fawad Chaudhary, Pakistan’s former federal minister for information and broadcasting and a leader from Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, appealed to all supporters of the former cricketer to arrive at his residence in a show of support.

 Consequently, Islamabad Police tweeted that Imran Khan is trying to avoid arrest and that he wasn’t home when the cops arrived.  

Meanwhile, Pakistani journalists posted photos of Islamabad Police’s notice declaring that the PTI chief wasn’t home.

In a tweet Sunday, Michael Kugelman, the South Asia institute director at Wilson Centre, alluded to the political and economic upheaval Pakistan finds itself in currently. 

“This is what happens when you’re experiencing simultaneous political and economic crises: Police arrive to arrest Imran Khan on the day before the resumption of critical talks between Pakistan’s government and the IMF. Never a dull moment these days,” he said in his tweet


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Imran hits back 

As the drama unfolded, Khan accused the current Pakistani establishment under Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif of corruption.

He also accused Sharif of undermining institutional independence, 

“He (Shehbaz Sharif) has since proceeded to select heads of those institutions investigating his cases – first FIA & now NAB – simply to get his name permanently cleared in Rs 16 bn corruption & Rs 8 bn money laundering cases against him. This is how a country becomes a banana republic,” Khan said in another tweet.

(Edited by Uttara Ramaswamy)


Also Read: Im, not so dim: Why it had to be a reckless Imran Khan to threaten Pakistan’s Establishment  


 

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