May 12. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The National Police of Pakistan has confirmed several shootings that occurred in the country’s capital, Islamabad, near the courts where the country’s former prime minister Imran Jan received provisional release on Friday for a case of alleged corruption.
Jan, who was due to return this afternoon to his home in Zaman Park, in Lahore, is still inside the headquarters of the Islamabad High Court, where envoys from the newspaper ‘Dawn’ have heard no less than three shootings in the space of 30 minutes, while the Islamabad Police, on its Twitter account, has confirmed shots in the G-11 and G-13 districts of the capital, with no victims to lament. The roof of the building is now occupied by snipers.
“You will tell us how we get him out of here,” the superintendent of the Islamabad Police, Masud Bangash, told the media, who has not provided information on the identity of those responsible for the shooting, although he has hinted that it could be Jan’s supporters, who have been closing in on the High Court headquarters all day “and are getting closer.”
Jan’s lawyer, Salman Safdar, has demanded that the head of the Police immediately retract these statements because it is incomprehensible, in his opinion, that Jan’s followers are opening fire on a “day of celebration”.
In comments collected by GEO TV, Jan has given an ultimatum to the Police to allow him to leave the court. “Either they open the routes to Islamabad or I will announce my next action plan,” the former prime minister has warned.
