Former PM Imran Khan appears before judge amid uproar in Pakistan

Army deployed and police fire teargas at crowds outside police station where closed-door hearing held

Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan has been presented before a judge in a police station in Islamabad, 24 hours after his dramatic arrested by scores of paramilitary officers that led to country-wide uproar.

In Pakistan’s most populous state,​ ​Punjab​, nearly 1,000 people were arrested and the army deployed. At least 25 police vehicles were set on fire in the province, with 130 officers injured in clashes and more than a dozen official buildings looted, the government said, blaming Khan’s supporters.

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