Pakistan Deploys Troops to Halt Unrest After Former Prime Minister Khan Is Ordered Held on New Charges

Pakistan Deploys Troops to Halt Unrest After Former Prime Minister Khan Is Ordered Held on New Charges
Police officers stand guard to ensure security at the vicinity of police headquarters, where Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan is held and will appear in a temporary court set up by authorities for security reasons, in Islamabad, Pakistan, on May 10, 2023. Anjum Naveed/AP Photo
The Associated Press
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ISLAMABAD—Pakistan’s government called out the military Wednesday in areas roiled by deadly violence following the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was dragged from a courtroom and ordered held for another eight days on new corruption charges that outraged his supporters and deepened the country’s political turmoil.

In an address to the nation, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif said the unrest by Khan’s supporters “damaged sensitive public and private property,” forcing him to deploy the military in the capital of Islamabad, the most populous province of Punjab and in volatile regions of the northwest.