After night in custody, Imran Khan to be produced at Islamabad Police HQ today

It has been confirmed that Imran Khan is in the custody of ISI after he was arrested from the high court premises on Tuesday.

Published on: May 10, 2023, 09:07:03 IST

By Shishir Gupta

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Imran Khan will be produced at Islamabad Police Line Headquarters H-11 and the court will be held at Police Line Guest House on Wednesday, a days after he was arrested. Imran Khan's arrest triggered countrywide protest by his supporters. Metro Station Rawalpindi was set on fire by angry protestors.

Imran Khan was surrounded by security personnel and dragged out of the court.

PTI protesters surrounded the home of Senior PML-N leader and Federal Minister Rana Sanaullah. Protesters are still on the roads in Upper Dir, KPK. In Rawalpindi, rubber bullets were fired at gatherings of PTI supporters.

While terming the arrest of Imran Khan under ‘law of jungle’, Adil Raja revealed that Imran Khan’s phone is being scanned at Kohsar Complex, ISI Islamabad Sector Headquarters at Jinnah Super Market. It has been confirmed that Imran Khan is in the custody of ISI,

South Asia Institute Director Michael Kugelman said following Imran Khan's arrest, public fury is being directed at the Army on levels that haven't been seen in a very long time. “The images today of people storming and burning military property would have been unthinkable a few years ago. Such dramatic changes over so little time. Pakistan's army may be banking on a short-lived PTI protest movement that peters out after a few weeks, with no party leader with Khan's charisma and clout capable of leading a sustained movement. Questionable bet to make against supporters of the country's most popular politician,” Kugelman said.

A fellow at The Wilson Centre, Baqir Sajjad, said the situation has been deliberately allowed to deteriorate after Imran Khan's arrest. The game plan is to manufacture an excuse to keep Imran Khan locked and impose an emergency for two years.

The police raided houses of PTI members, former Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri in Quetta and PTI Media Coordinator Asif Tareen and MPA Abbas Jafri.

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Shishir Gupta
Shishir Gupta is Executive Editor at Hindustan Times and one of India's top journalists covering national security, strategic affairs, foreign policy and geopolitics. Over the past three decades, he has extensively reported on India's military, diplomatic and security landscape, covering every major conflict and national security challenge, from the 1999 Kargil War and the 2020 East Ladakh standoff to Operation Sindoor in 2025. He has also covered major terror attacks, including the IC-814 hijacking, the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and the 2025 Pahalgam terror strike, along with numerous Pakistan-backed terrorist incidents in the Kashmir Valley and across India. He has reported on national and state elections for more than three decades. A recognised authority on strategic affairs, Gupta has covered India's nuclear programme since the Pokhran-II (Shakti series) tests in May 1998 and has written extensively on global nuclear issues, Indian diplomacy and the country's expanding global outreach. He has also reported widely on international conflicts and terrorism, with a special focus on the Indian subcontinent. Gupta has interviewed Prime Minister Narendra Modi more than four times, including Modi's first interview with the print media after becoming Prime Minister in May 2014. His other interviews include three with the Dalai Lama, as well as conversations with Benjamin Netanyahu, Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath, S. Jaishankar, Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal. He is the author of Indian Mujahideen: The Enemy Within (Hachette, 2011) and Himalayan Face-off: Chinese Assertion and Indian Riposte (Hachette, 2014). He was awarded the Chevening-Wolfson Joint Scholarship at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK, in 1998 and participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) of the US State Department in 2006. He received the Ben Gurion Prize from Israel in 2011 and the K. Subrahmanyam Prize for Strategic Studies in 2015 from the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA). Since 2024, he has hosted Point Blank, Hindustan Times' weekly YouTube show on global geopolitics.Read More

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