LAHORE: Supporters of former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan clashed repeatedly with police overnight as he remained holed up in his Lahore residence early Wednesday (Mar 15), defying attempts to
Khan was ousted from office by a no-confidence vote last year, and has been snarled in a series of legal cases as he campaigns for early elections and a return to office.
"I am telling the entire nation today that they are ready once again, they're going to come again," he said. A PTI official tweeted that there was"an urgent need" for first aid kits in the Zaman Park neighbourhood. "We are here basically to execute the warrants and to arrest him," Syed Shahzad Nadeem Bukhari, deputy inspector general of Islamabad police, told reporters Tuesday outside Khan's residence.
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