Court orders immediate release of former prime minister who was arrested in Islamabad this week
Pakistan’s supreme court has ruled the arrest of the former prime minister Imran Khan illegal and ordered that he be released immediately.
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”.