A Pakistani court docket indicted jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday on prices of inciting his supporters to assault the nation’s navy and its installations in 2023, Geo TV reported.
Khan pleaded not responsible to the costs whereas the court docket additionally indicted greater than 60 others in the identical case, Geo TV and ARY Information reported.
1000’s of supporters of Khan had attacked and torched a number of navy buildings and places of work on Might 9 final 12 months to protest in opposition to his arrest on graft allegations.
At the very least eight folks have been killed within the violence.
Khan faces anti-terrorism prices in reference to the violence, thought-about essentially the most severe problem to the facility of the navy in Pakistan’s historical past. A number of of Khan’s supporters have already been sentenced in reference to the violence.
The 72-year-old cricketer-turned-politician has been named in dozens of circumstances since he left workplace in 2022 and has been behind bars for greater than a 12 months.
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