Police on Wednesday reported that over 100 police officers were injured in Pakistan as fresh clashes erupted between the police and supporters of opposition leader Imran Khan.
Khan’s supporters, including former ministers and members of parliament, pelted the police and troops with stones and petrol bombs in another push to arrest the former prime minister.
Khan was inside his residential compound in the eastern city of Lahore with thousands of supporters camped outside.
There has been courts warrants for his arrest on multiple charges.
Police and paramilitary troops from the rangers force on Tuesday began an operation to push back Khan’s supporters in a third attempt in recent weeks to arrest him.
At least eight protesters were also injured in the police’s baton charge, local media reported, quoting hospital sources.
Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb said the police and troops were unarmed and had observed maximum restraint.
Reports however indicated that some of the policemen were carrying guns.
Khan promised in an undertaking to court on Wednesday that he would appear before the judge at the next hearing if his warrants are suspended, his lawyer Faisal Chaudhry said.
Khan, who was removed by the country’s parliament through a vote of no confidence, faces multiple charges including one of selling state gifts and not declaring the proceeds in his asset declaration, a must for all Pakistani lawmakers under the law.
The former premier said his opponents were victimizing him at the behest of Western countries because of his support of Russia. (NAN)
