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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Court orders charges against ex Pakistani PM Khan dropped

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

A Pakistani judge Monday ordered police to drop terrorism charges against former prime minister Imran Khan for verbally threatening police officers and a female judge at a political rally last month.

The charges followed a speech Khan gave in the capital Islamabad last month in which he vowed to sue the city of Islamabad police chief and a judge for allowing police to question Shahbaz Gill, who is chief of staff at Khan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf political party.

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