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Wife of Pakistan’s Imran Khan moved to jail on her request, lawyer says

Wife of Pakistan’s Imran Khan moved to jail on her request, lawyer says

A court in Pakistan granted a request by the wife of former Prime Minister Imran Khan to be moved to jail, her lawyer said, instead of the house arrest ordered by the government. In her petition to the Islamabad High Court, Bushra Bibi had accused authorities of violating her privacy and serving contaminated food in her home cell, which she and her lawyers said was dominated by men, a charge the prison staff has denied. Bibi says she has been detained in one room at Khan's hilltop mansion in Islamabad since the couple's January conviction on charges of illegally selling state gifts. Through…
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Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan arrested, stirring nationwide violence

Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan arrested, stirring nationwide violence

ASIF SHAHZAD and GIBRAN NAIYYAR PESHIMAM PAKISTAN'S anti-corruption agency arrested former prime minister Imran Khan at Islamabad High Court, threatening fresh turmoil in the nuclear-armed country as clashes erupted between Khan supporters and police, killing at least one protester. Khan's arrest comes a day after the powerful military rebuked him for repeatedly accusing a senior military officer of trying to engineer his assassination and the former armed forces chief of being behind his removal from power last year. Dozens of paramilitary troops in riot-control gear surrounded Khan - Pakistan's most popular leader according to opinion polls - and led him into a…
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