Pakistan's ex-PM Khan to ask court to halt police arrest warrant - aide

17/3/2023 17:45

        Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan plans to go to court on Friday to support a plea he made to halt a police operation to arrest him for failing to attend a hearing, an aide said.
        
        Khan would soon go to a court in the city of Lahore to "support his plea against his arrest warrant and police action", the aide, Fawad Chaudhry, told Reuters .
        The legal proceedings against the former cricket star began after he was ousted from office in a parliamentary vote early last year.
        
        Since then, Khan, 70, has been demanding a snap election and holding protests across the country. He was shot and wounded at one of those rallies.
        
        Current Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has rejected Khan's demands, saying an election would be held as scheduled later this year.