ISLAMABAD –
At least one police officer was killed and dozens of people injured in Pakistan as supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan clashed with security forces outside the capital Islamabad on Monday, officials and Khan’s party said.
Authorities have enforced a security lockdown for the last two days after Khan called for a march on Parliament for a sit-in demonstration to demand his release, while highways into the city have been barricaded.
One police officer was shot and killed, at least 119 others were injured and 22 police vehicles were torched in clashes just outside Islamabad and elsewhere in the Punjab province, provincial police chief Usman Anwar said. Two officers were in critical condition, he said.