Imran Khan

It is the second time in recent weeks that police have been dispatched to serve an arrest warrant to the former prime minister.

Qureshi insisted police should deliver the arrest warrant to Khan and said he would “try to find a solution to avoid bloodshed”. Police fired a water cannon and teargas on the crowds as they attempted to clear a path to Khan’s house, holding signs plastered with the arrest warrant for the 70-year-old opposition leader. A party account also showed video of teargas canisters landing inside Khan’s garden, but police did not appear to breach the gate or the wall. It is the second time in recent weeks that police have been dispatched from the capital Islamabad to Khan’s home in the eastern city of Lahore to serve an arrest warrant after he “We are here basically to execute the warrants and to arrest him,” Syed Shahzad Nadeem Bukhari, deputy inspector general of Islamabad police, told reporters outside Khan’s residence in Lahore on Tuesday. 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 his return to office.

Clashes have persisted for a second day in Pakistan as police are trying to arrest former Prime Minister Imran Khan at his home in the eastern city of ...

He said a court in Islamabad was expected to hear a petition from Khan's legal team about suspending his arrest warrant. From his home, Khan urged his followers on Tuesday to fight on even if he is arrested. He said he was ready to travel to Islamabad on March 18 under his arrest warrant, but police did not accept the offer.

LAHORE, Pakistan — (AP) — Clashes between Pakistan's police and supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan persisted outside his home in the eastern ...

He said Khan will be produced before the court. He said he was ready to travel to Islamabad on March 18 under his arrest warrant, but police did not accept the offer. From inside his home, Khan urged his followers to fight on even if he is arrested. Khan's lawyers were also legally challenging the warrants before another Islamabad court Tuesday. “We will arrest him, and will do it on a court order,” Shahzad Bukhari, deputy-inspector general of Islamabad police, told reporters earlier in Lahore. About a dozen police and some 35 of Khan's supporters were reported injured.

Police in the eastern city of Lahore planned to serve Khan with a warrant to appear in court later this week. They fired tear gas at the house as the 71-year- ...

Until his ouster, Khan's government had blocked the release of any information about gifts officials received from visiting dignitaries. Police in the eastern city of Lahore planned to serve Khan with a warrant to appear in court later this week. Earlier on Tuesday, Sharif's government made changes approved by the Cabinet to clarify laws banning officials from keeping valuable state gifts received while in office. From inside his home, Khan urged his followers to fight on even if he is arrested in a message on Twitter. The gifts would from now on be perceived as state property, it added. Bukhari was later also lightly injured in the violence and received first aid from police medics at the scene.

Pakistani police fired tear gas into the grounds of Imran Khan's Lahore home on Wednesday following a night of violent clashes between security personnel ...

They want to get me out of the match so that they can win the elections.” He also believes that Pakistan’s ruling coalition might eventually use a “pretext of violence” to delay the upcoming votes. The police is only complying with the orders of the court,” Marriyum Aurangzeb said. “The entire nation stands with Chairman Imran Khan.” He has accused Pakistani authorities of attempting to arrest him to remove him from upcoming by-elections in April and a general election scheduled for October. The former prime minister’s supporters threw stones in return, according to a tweet from Islamabad police.

Officers had been trying to arrest the former prime minister for failing to appear in court on corruption charges.

From his home, Mr Khan urged his followers on Tuesday to fight on even if he is arrested. On Tuesday, about a dozen police and some 35 of Mr Khan’s supporters were reported injured as tear gas shells and pieces of bricks littered the pavement as the followers fought back with batons they had brought to resist police. At the Islamabad High Court, Mr Khan’s lawyer Khawaja Haris and his team petitioned for the suspension of the arrest warrant for the former premier.

Imran Khan was ousted from his role as prime minister in April last year. Since then he has had a string of offences made against him, including terrorism.

The rally was permitted by authorities, but thousands of police were deployed. "My worry is that if they put me in jail then workers will come out. Someone like me is being treated like some little terrorist, that's the amount of force outside."