“The Punjab Police had been preemptively arresting workers, members, and well-wishers to avoid any groundswell of people,” Intazar Hussain Panjutha, one of Khan’s lawyers representing him in the Toshakhana case, told Arab News while describing these detentions as “absolutely illegal.” However, the situation was completely different in the city this time, even as the former prime minister asked his supporters to keep "protesting peacefully" in a pre-recorded video that was circulated by his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party shortly after his arrest from the Zaman Park residence. Khan was convicted after a trial court proclaimed he was guilty of "corrupt practices" and disqualified him from holding any public office for five years.Įarlier this year, when Khan was arrested from an Islamabad court by paramilitary Rangers on May 9, violent protests broke out in Lahore and other cities, during which many of his party supporters targeted government buildings and military installations and set them on fire. The Toshakhana, also known as the state repository, is a department under the Cabinet Division that stores gifts given to rulers and government officials by heads of other governments and foreign dignitaries. Khan had been facing criminal proceedings in the matter after the country's election commission barred him from holding public office in what is popularly called the Toshakhana case last October and referred the matter to the higher judiciary. LAHORE: Life continued to move at a normal pace in the eastern city of Lahore despite the high-profile arrest of former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan on Saturday, following a court ruling that gave him a three-year imprisonment in a case involving the illegal sale of state gifts.
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