(15 Mar 2023)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Islamabad - 15 March 2023
1. Various exteriors of Islamabad High Court
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Waleed Iqbal, lawyer representing Imran Khan and senior party official:
"These arrest warrants are actually not warrants of arrest of somebody who is to be put in jail for already some conviction that has taken place or some sentencing that has been passed. These are warrants merely to ensure or procure the attendance of an accused person against whom no guilt has yet been established."
3. Sign reading (English) "Islamabad High Court"
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Waleed Iqbal, lawyer representing Imran Khan and senior party official:
"In principle, yes, that is what the court in Islamabad was saying. That, you know, resisting or defying the process of the law like this is actually defying the state and is actually defying the law and the orders of a court."
5. Camera operators
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Waleed Iqbal, lawyer representing Imran Khan and senior party official:
"The counsel to Mr Imran Khan, Khawaja Haris, said that there is an undertaking that has been given by Mr Imran Khan, that when the court requires him to appear in person on the 18th (March) he will appear and the counsel himself said that 'I will stand as surety'."
7. Cutaway of news conference
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Waleed Iqbal, lawyer representing Imran Khan and senior party official:
"The Lahore High Court has passed orders at least until 8am tomorrow for the police to stay clear of the residence of Mr Imran Khan by a distance of 500 metres and the use of tear gas and the use of water cannons and the use of live ammunition and the use of sticks to beat up peaceful demonstrators should also not take place."
9. Truck entering Islamabad High Court secured area
10. Cutaway of news conference
STORYLINE:
A lawyer for former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Wednesday that a court has ordered police to stay clear of Khan's residence until Thursday morning.
The ruling by Lahore High Court comes after police clashed with supporters of Khan, outside his residence, for a second day.
Lawyer Waleed Iqbal said the court had "passed orders at least until 8am tomorrow for the police to stay clear of the residence of Mr Imran Khan by a distance of 500 metres and the use of tear gas and the use of water cannons and the use of live ammunition and the use of sticks to beat up peaceful demonstrators should also not take place."
Police had besieged the 70-year-old opposition leader’s house in the eastern city of Lahore since Tuesday as his supporters hurled rocks and bricks, and swung batons snatched from officers.
Police fired tear gas and clashes went on into the afternoon Wednesday before subsiding.
Violence was also reported between Khan's supporters and police in other major cities, including Karachi, Islamabad, the garrison city of Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Quetta and elsewhere in Pakistan.
Khan, who was ousted in a no-confidence vote in Parliament in April, was ordered to appear before a judge in Islamabad on Friday to answer charges of illegally selling state gifts he had received during his term as premier and concealing his assets.
The former premier has avoided appearances in court since November, when he was wounded in a gun attack at a protest rally in eastern Punjab province, claiming he was not medically fit to travel from Lahore to Islamabad to face indictment.
AP video by Muhammad Yousaf
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