New Delhi: <\/b><\/p>\nPakistan former prime minister Imran Khan was granted two weeks of bail by Islamabad High Court on Friday in a corruption case, a day after the Supreme Court called his arrest “invalid and unlawful”.<\/p>\n
The Islamabad High Court upheld Mr Khan’s arrest but a three-member Supreme Court bench on Thursday had declared his detention “illegal” and ordered his immediate release.<\/p>\n
The Friday hearing was delayed for nearly two hours due to security reasons. The cricketer-turned-politician arrived in a security convoy at Islamabad High Court, where hundreds of police and paramilitary troops were deployed.<\/p>\n
However, the government has vowed to re-arrest Mr Khan should he be released, setting the stage for more unrest.<\/p>\n
Mr Khan, who was ousted as Prime Minister last April, was arrested from outside the Islamabad High Court on Tuesday in the Al-Qadir Trust case after the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), the country’s top anti-corruption body, issued an arrest warrant against him.<\/p>\n
The arrest by paramilitary Rangers triggered deadly clashes across the country, prompting the deployment of the Army. At least nine people died in the unrest, police and hospitals said.<\/p>\n
Mr Khan as accused senior military and government officials of plotting a November assassination attempt that saw him shot in the leg during a rally.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, he has become tangled in a slew of legal cases — a frequent hazard for opposition figures in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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