Imran Khan's close aide Shah Mehmood Qureshi arrested for 'inciting violent protests'; PAK Police

At least eight people have died in this violence and the army has to be called in the country's capital and three provinces. 

shah Mahmood Qureshi Arrested: Amidst the violence in Pakistan, the police arrested Shah Mahmood Qureshi, a close aide of former Prime Minister Imran Khan and former Foreign Minister, on Thursday.

At least eight people have died in this violence and the army has to be called in the country's capital and three provinces. 

In a video shared on Twitter by Qureshi's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, he was seen being escorted by men in plain clothes and waving to party workers before leaving the place of detention. Seemed to be

66-year-old Qureshi was arrested

PTI claimed that Islamabad police arrested 66-year-old Qureshi in the early hours of Thursday and took him to an "undisclosed location".

Two days before his arrest, on Tuesday, Imran Khan was arrested by paramilitary forces when he was present at the Islamabad High Court for a hearing in a corruption case.

On Tuesday, on the orders of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), the paramilitary force barged into a chamber of the Islamabad High Court and took Khan (70) into custody. On Wednesday, an anti-corruption court sent 70-year-old Khan to eight-day remand.

Around 300 others were injured in the clashes

The dramatic arrest of former Pakistan Prime Minister Khan from a court complex in a corruption case has sparked widespread violence across the country, leaving at least eight people dead and nearly 100,000 people injured in clashes between protesters and law enforcement agencies, 300 other people were injured.

The violence forced authorities to deploy the army on Wednesday to maintain law and order in the capital Islamabad as well as in the provinces of Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. 

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in an address to the nation on Wednesday condemned the violent protests by former Prime Minister Khan's supporters following his arrest in the Al-Qadir Trust corruption case and warned of strict action against the protesters.