Imran Khan will appear in court on Friday, a day after Pakistan’s Supreme Court deemed his arrest illegal and ordered his release, as authorities were braced for a continuation of unrest that has engulfed the country this week.
The opposition leader is also expected to address supporters for the first time since he was taken into custody on Tuesday, a move that sparked some of Pakistan’s worst political violence in years.
Hundreds of supporters and several senior leaders of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party have been arrested in days of clashes with police around the country following his detention by an anti-graft agency, with at least five people killed.