Islamabad, Pakistan:
Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan will appear Wednesday in a special court at the capital’s police headquarters to answer graft charges, a day after his shock arrest prompted violent nationwide protests.
Khan’s detention follows months of political crisis and came hours after the powerful military rebuked the former international cricketer for alleging that a senior officer had been involved in a plot to kill him.
Some protesters took out their wrath on the military, torching the residence of the corps commander in Lahore and laying siege to the army’s general headquarters in the garrison city of Rawalpindi.
In Peshawar, a mob razed the Chaghi monument — a mountain-shaped sculpture honouring the location of Pakistan’s first nuclear test.
Police fought pitched battles with supporters of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party in cities across the country for hours on Tuesday night.