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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Shah Meer Baloch in Islamabad and Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi

RARE PHOTOS: Pakistan army deployed across country as unrest triggered by imran khan arrest continues | Vintage Vibes

Supporters of former prime minister Imran Khan clash with police in Peshawar after his arrest.
Supporters of former prime minister Imran Khan clash with police in Peshawar after his arrest. Photograph: Arshad Arbab/EPA

Pakistan’s supreme court has ruled the arrest of the former prime minister Imran Khan was illegal and ordered for him to be released.

The chief justice of Pakistan, Umar Ata Bandial, declared that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had acted in violation of the law by arresting Khan on the premises of the Islamabad high court without permission and that such actions would have a “chilling effect”.

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