Punjab police to interrogate former Pakistan PM Imran Khan in jail

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan will be interrogated by Punjab police in jail after an antiterrorism court granted his 10day physical remand in a dozen cases linked to the May 9 riotsThe Punjab police on Sunday arrested Khan 71 in 12 terrorism cases including an attack on a senior army officer in Lahore soon after he and his wife Bushra Bibi were acquitted in the Iddat case making sure the cricketerturnedpolitician remains in jailOn Monday evening Khan attended the proceedings of the AntiTerrorism Court Lahore through a video call on WhatsApp from Adiala jail in Rawalpindi and rejected the charges against himKhan said he did not incite anyone to violence and added that his party leaders and workers were subjected to great injusticeI was arrested after they broke the glass of a room in the Islamabad High Court on May 8 2023 In my political career spanning 28 years I had never called for violent protests My party men were peaceful but they were attacked by the law enforcement agencies Khan told the ATCKhan said he had applied to a judicial inquiry into the May 9 2023 riots which was still pending before the courtThe founder of the Pakistan TehreekeInsaf party told the court that all the CCTV footage supporting his claim that it was a false flag operation against the PTI had been erased Even at Capitol Hill the punishments were given based on video evidence he said referring to the unprecedented attack on the Capitol Building in Washington DC by supporters of former US president Donald Trump on January 6 2021Talking about the powerful military establishment Khan said They ask me to apologise but I say they committed the injustice so they should apologiseATC Judge Khalid Arshad told Khan that the court would include his statement in the proceedingsKhans lawyers Usman Gill and Azhar Siddique through a video link appearance opposed the grant of physical remand of Khan and said the jailed former premier should have been brought to the court from Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi during the hearing involving the grant of physical remandThe judge remarked that he spoke to Khan for five minutes and he seemed perfectly fineKhan who is facing over 200 cases has been in jail since August last yearThe PTI believes he is being arrested in more cases on the beat of the military establishment to make sure that he does not come out of jailRejection of prearrest bail pleas is a ploy to keep Imran Khan in jail for a longer period PTI spokesperson Raoof Hasan saidPakistan is under the grip of the worst personal dictatorship and the law of the jungle and the sole purpose of dismissing Imran Khans bail pleas was to prolong his unlawful incarceration after his acquittal in all other false fabricated and politically motivated cases Hasan saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever