second time the popular opposition leader has been detainedEarlier Saturday, a court convicted him in an asset concealment case, handing down a prison sentence that could see him barred from politics.Police officers prepare to take position outside the residence of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan, in Lahore, Pakistan, Saturday, Aug. 5, 2023.
The Islamabad court issued the arrest warrant after convicting Khan, with police in Lahore moving quickly to take him from his home to the Pakistani capital.Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan listens to a member of the media during talk with reporters regarding the current political situation and the ongoing cases against him at his residence, in Lahore, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug.
Since his ousting from power in a no-confidence vote in the parliament in April 2022, Khan has been slapped with more than 150 legal cases, including several on charges of corruption, terrorism and inciting people to violence over deadly protests in May that saw his followers attack government and military property across the country.
Khan served as prime minister of Pakistan from August 2018 to April 2022 and is well known to Australian cricket fans as the champion all-rounder who captained his country to victory in the first One Day Cricket World Cup ever held in Australia, in 1992.
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