Pakistan’s former leader, Imran Khan, is arrested – By Sarah Gambles (Deseret News) / May 9, 2023
On Tuesday, Pakistan’s military arrested former Prime Minister Imran Khan on charges of corruption
Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested on Tuesday outside the High Court in Islamabad, the capital.
He was arrested on charges of corruption, “which he says are politically motivated,” BBC reported.
Why was former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan arrested?
Khan was “accused of money laundering and faces a number of other charges in separate cases, all of which he has rejected,” according to The Washington Post.
A day before his arrest, Khan received “a rare public rebuke” from “the powerful military” for repeated claims that a senior military official was attempting to assassinate him, and that the military’s former chief was behind removing him from power in April 2022, per Reuters.
