ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who is facing corruption charges, said on Thursday (May 18) he would not join an investigation by the powerful anti-graft agency w
He said he was in the process of applying for, and obtaining, bail in a number of other legal cases and would not be available before his protective bail expired on May 22.
Khan's arrest triggered a wave of violence that deepened political instability in the South Asian nation of 220 million. Pakistan has also been facing its worst-ever economic crisis, with critical IMF funding needed to avert a balance of payment crisis delayed for months.
Punjab's information minister Amir Mir said the government did not have any plans to arrest Khan as he had been given bail by court."All we want him to hand over the terrorists hiding at his home," he said. Khan has said authorities could search his home but only with legal warrants from a court, and has denied sheltering anyone involved in the violence.
On Thursday, Khan's aide Iftikhr Durrani allowed journalists into some areas of Khan's Lahore home to"look for terrorists".
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