Khan begins legal battle in Pakistan

Описание: (23 May 2023)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Islamabad - 23 May 2023
1. Car carrying former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan
2. Cutaway security in front of court
3. Khan vehicle entering court building
4. Various Khan inside court building walking toward court room
5. Khan car leaving after the court hearing
6.SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Malik Tariq Mehmood Noon, Khan team lawyer:
“In today's court proceeding the prosecution was blaming Khan that he did not join the investigation, but Khan and our plea was, Khan did join the investigation, and the next hearing for the case is fixed for 8 June.”
7. Wide exterior of anti-terrorist court building
8. Security in front of court building
9. Wide of security on road
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Babar Awan, Senior Khan lawyer:
“There is absolutely no cases, the persecution which is being done against the leadership, families and Imran by himself. But nobody can stop the rule of law in the country, and nobody can stop the dispensation of having the elections in time and the time is almost over.”
11. Khan car leaving NAB (National Accountability Bureau) office after the investigation


STORYLINE:
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday pressed his legal battle before a court in the capital, Islamabad, which granted him protection from arrest until early next month in several cases where he faces terrorism charges for inciting violence.

The development comes as the authorities have been cracking down on the supporters of Khan, now Pakistan's top opposition leader.

Thousands staged violence protests, and attacked public property and military installations following Khan's arrest earlier this month.

The violence subsided only days later, after Khan was released on the orders of the country's Supreme Court.

Ten people were killed in clashes with the police.

Khan, who was ousted in a no-confidence vote in Parliament in April last year, has campaigned against the government of his successor, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, claiming his ouster was illegal and demanding early elections.

Since then, the 70-year-old former cricket star turned Islamist politician has become embroiled in more than 100 legal cases against him. He faces charges of graft purportedly committed while he was in office and has been charged with terrorism in eight cases over the violent protests by his supporters and his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf opposition party.

After the Islamabad court on Tuesday granted Khan protection from arrest on terrorism charges until June 8, he and his wife travelled to the nearby city of Rawalpindi, to appear before the National Accountability Bureau to answer questions in a separate graft case.

The couple is accused of accepting the gift of property to build a private university in exchange for providing benefits to a real estate tycoon.

Khan denies the charge, saying he and his wife, Bushra Bibi, were not involved in any wrongdoing.

AP Video shot by Muhammad Yousaf

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