Imran Khan supporters clash with police outside court

Police successful Islamabad person clashed with supporters of erstwhile Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan arsenic helium arrived successful the metropolis to look successful court.

Police said Mr Khan's supporters threw stones and fired teardrop state adjacent the tribunal complex.

Mr Khan is appearing successful tribunal to code charges that helium sold authorities gifts portion successful office, which helium denies.

As helium travelled to the capital, constabulary raided his location successful Lahore and made arrests.

Earlier successful the week Lahore constabulary tried to apprehension Mr Khan aft helium missed a tribunal hearing, and officers clashed with supporters extracurricular his home.

On Friday, the tribunal granted Mr Khan extortion against apprehension connected the assurance that helium would look successful tribunal connected Saturday.

The ex-PM says the charges against him are politically motivated but says helium is attending tribunal "because I judge successful the regularisation of law".

He said attempts to apprehension him were unrelated to the tribunal lawsuit and alternatively were "intended to instrumentality maine distant to situation truthful that I americium incapable to pb our predetermination campaign".

He told Reuters that helium had formed a committee to pb his party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), successful the lawsuit of his arrest.

In a motion of the heavy divisions wrong Pakistani politics, the existent Prime Minister Shebaz Sharif tweeted that Mr Khan's "antics of the past fewer days" had "laid bare his fascist and militant tendencies" and accused him of utilizing supporters arsenic "human shields".

About 4,000 information officials, including elite commandos and anti-terrorism squads, person been deployed successful Islamabad, AFP reported.

Mr Khan was ousted arsenic premier curate past April successful a no-confidence ballot but has kept up unit connected his successor Mr Sharif with demonstrations and speeches calling for elections owed aboriginal this twelvemonth to beryllium held early.

He blames Mr Sharif for an assassination effort astatine a rally successful November successful which helium was wounded successful the leg.

He told the BBC this week that the authorities were trying to apprehension him to halt his enactment from taking portion successful forthcoming elections. But helium added: "Whether I americium successful jailhouse oregon not they volition not beryllium capable to halt my enactment winning."

Police successful Lahore said they had arrested Khan supporters who had been progressive successful unit against constabulary earlier successful the week, including for throwing petrol bombs. The cognition progressive 1,000 information personnel, section media reported.

The Punjab constabulary main said immoderate officers would stay extracurricular Mr Khan's residence.