‘…they provide an injection’: Imran Khan tells courtroom docket he fears for his life | World News

Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan on Wednesday expressed concern for his life all through a courtroom docket listening to after his arrest and said he was afraid that he’ll meet the similar future as Maqsood ‘Chaprasi’, a key witness in prime minister Shehbaz Sharif’s money laundering case who died remaining yr.

“I’ve not been to the washroom in 24 hours,” said Khan throughout the courtroom docket, alleging “they provide [you] an injection, and [you] slowly die.”

The 70-year-old Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief was remanded in custody for eight days by an anti-graft courtroom docket as violent nationwide protests over his arrest erupted for a second day.

The cricketer turned politician requested the courtroom docket that his non-public physician Dr Faisal Sultan be granted entry to him, data firm PTI reported citing Pakistan’s Particular Tribune newspaper.

On Tuesday, Khan was arrested all through a routine listening to throughout the capital Islamabad Tuesday and whisked away to an unknown location in a single day sooner than exhibiting behind closed doorways in a particularly convened courtroom docket at police headquarters.

Afzal Marwat, Khan’s lawyer, earlier said the PTI chief was in “good spirits” nonetheless had complained of being hit on the once more of the highest and leg by paramilitary forces who arrested him, reported AFP.

Khan has beforehand denied all the prices in dozens of cases launched in opposition to him and said that the myriad licensed cases are part of an effort by the struggling authorities and armed forces establishment to cease him from returning to power.

Khan, who was dismissed in April remaining yr, has mounted an unprecedented assault in opposition to the nation’s extremely efficient military all by the months-long political catastrophe.

(With firm inputs)