The National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) officials arrested the PTI chairman when he arrived in the Federal Capital from Lahore to appear before the IHC in connection with his bail petitions.
Khan's detention follows months of political crisis and came hours after the powerful military rebuked the former international cricketer for alleging that a senior officer had been involved in a plot to kill him.
Mobile data services in the country were shut while Twitter, YouTube and Facebook were disrupted. Television carried watered-down coverage of violence that erupted on Tuesday.
Following Imran Khan’s arrest, chaos erupted in Pakistan as the public heavily protested the arrest. Supporters of Imran Khan and PTI have taken to the streets in major streets across the world.
