Jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan was on Tuesday arrested in a case related to the attack on the Pakistan Army headquarters in Rawalpindi on May 9 last year, soon after his release warrant was issued in the cipher case.
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Rawalpindi summoned the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder, who is already behind bars in cipher and graft cases, in connection with the May 9 cases on Tuesday. However, Khan attended the court’s proceedings via video link as he could not be produced in the court by Adiala jail authorities because of security concerns.
Judge Ijaz Asif of the Anti-Terrorism Court Rawalpindi conducted the hearings of at least 12 cases linked with the May 9 riots.
During the proceedings, the police chief of the Royal Artillery Bazar Police Station, which is in the vicinity of the General Headquarters (GHQ), informed the court that Khan was arrested as he was nominated in the GHQ attack case.
The police also requested 71-year-old Khan’s physical remand but the judge turned down the plea and asked the police to meet him at the jail for the probe.