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Senior ally of ousted PM Imran Khan arrested in Pakistan

Senior ally of ousted PM Imran Khan arrested in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's former interior minister and ally of ousted leader Iman Khan was arrested on Thursday, a few hours after another senior opposition figure was released from custody.Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, who heads a party that was in a coalition with Khan, appeared at Islamabad court where he was remanded in custody for two days.Ahmed was arrested in connection with remarks he allegedly made against former president Asif Ali Zardari, accusing him of hatching a “murder plot to eliminate Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan”, according to a police charge sheet.“He tried to incite people,“ said Raja Inayat ur Rehman, an official with Pakistan Peoples Party which filed the complaint and of which Zardari is co-chairman.Pakistan is facing overlapping security, economic and political crises, with the weak coalition government battling plummeting popularity ahead of a general election due in October.The arrest shortly after midnight on Thursday came just hours after Fawad Chaudhr

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