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.
Veteran Indian actor Shabana Azmi supported the movie and said that “Those who speak of banning #The Kerala Story are as wrong as those who wanted to ban Aamir."
Khan alleged that when the JIT determined that three shooters were involved in the incident, the team itself was “sabotaged” and that four Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) officials changed their statements.
