World News | Status in Pakistan ‘shocked, appalled’ after Imran Khan ‘arrested and manhandled’: President Alvi

ISLAMABAD, May 11 (PTI) Pakistani President Arif Alvi on Thursday expressed his uneasiness over the political turmoil and instability in the country following the arrest of ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan and urged all concerned to seek a political solution rather than coercion. and arrest.

Khan, 70, was arrested on Tuesday in a corruption case on the orders of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) by paramilitary rangers who broke into a room in the Islamabad High Court where the head of Pakistan’s Justice Movement (PTI) was housed. Appearing in court for biometric identification prior to a corruption case.

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Alvi, who was a member of Khan’s PTI party before becoming Pakistan’s president in 2018, said in a lengthy Twitter statement that he was “shocked, appalled and deeply troubled by the current situation in the country”.

Violent protests have killed at least eight people and injured nearly 300 in clashes between protesters and law enforcement agencies, and prompted authorities to attack the country’s capital, Islamabad, as well as the provinces of Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balu. The military is deployed in the provinces to maintain law and order.

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Lahore and Peshawar reportedly faced the worst incidents of arson and open fire.

“The resulting loss of human life is heartbreaking, regrettable, unfortunate and highly reprehensible,” Alvi tweeted.

Acknowledging that protest is every citizen’s constitutional right, he said it should “always remain within the bounds of the law”.

“The way in which some lawbreakers destroy public property, especially government and military buildings, is reprehensible. We must rethink and seek political solutions, not coercion and arrest. I have expressed my condolences to the political and military leadership concerns, and hope that things can improve,” the tweet added.

“I strongly urge all citizens of this country to remain peaceful,” the tweet concluded.

Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Pakistan’s former foreign minister and a close aide to ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan, was also arrested on Thursday.

Meanwhile, Pakistan’s Supreme Court said that Imran Khan’s arrest from court by the National Accountability Bureau without the permission of the Registrar was tantamount to depriving every citizen of freedom from fear and peace. Implied right of access to justice.

“If a person turns himself in to the court, what does it mean to arrest them?” the chief justice said on Thursday, while giving the anti-corruption watchdog an hour to hand over Khan and find him guilty of “contempt of court”.

Khan was ousted last April after losing a no-confidence vote in his leadership, which he claimed was part of a US-led plot against him because his foreign policy decisions on Russia, China and Afghanistan were independent. of.

He is the only Pakistani prime minister to be ousted in a vote of no confidence in parliament.public transport

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