Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan told an accountability court here on Wednesday that he feared for his life and feared he would meet the fate of Maqsood Chaprasi, a key witness in Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s money laundering case, which ended last year. Death had happened.
Khan, 70, appeared before the accountability court at Police Line Headquarters in H-11/1 Islamabad on Wednesday, a day after he was pulled from the Islamabad High Court and arrested. widespread conflict among his supporters and the police.
“I haven’t gone to the toilet in 24 hours,” the former prime minister said during the hearing.
The Express Tribune newspaper reported that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief requested the court to allow his personal physician, Dr. Faisal Sultan, to visit him.
Khan said, “I am afraid that I too will meet the fate of ‘Maqsood Chaprasi’.”
PTI had termed the death of the witness as ‘mysterious’.
“they give [you] an injection, and [you] Die slowly,” Khan said.
During Wednesday’s hearing, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) sought 14 days’ physical custody of the PTI chief. However, the anti-corruption court sent Khan to NAB on eight-day physical remand.
Accountability Court Judge Mohammad Bashir heard the case at the New Police Guest House, where the NAB presented its reasons for arresting the former prime minister.
Last night the Islamabad High Court (IHC) applied Imran Khan’s arrest Legal in the Al-Qadir Trust case.
Khan’s dramatic arrest on Tuesday deepened the political turmoil and triggered violent protests across Pakistan. Khan’s party has claimed that at least four people were killed and over a dozen injured in different parts of the country in violent clashes between security forces and PTI supporters.
Khan was ousted from power in April after losing a vote of no confidence in his leadership, which he alleged was part of a US-led conspiracy targeting him because of his independent foreign policy decisions on Russia, China and Afghanistan. Was.
He is the only Pakistani Prime Minister to be ruled out of a vote of no confidence in the Parliament.
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