Former Pakistani PM gets extension of protection from arrest

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officers say a Pakistani court docket has prolonged former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s safety from arrest till September 12. Thursday’s growth comes greater than every week after police filed terrorism prices in opposition to the nation’s fashionable opposition chief on prices of threatening police and a feminine decide in his speech to a rally final month. In Pakistan, terrorism prices could be levied in opposition to anybody accused of threatening a authorities official or Pakistan’s navy and safety establishments. Khan got here to energy in 2018 and misplaced the bulk within the parliament in April. He has alleged that he was ousted by means of no-confidence underneath a U.S. plot, a cost Washington denies.