On Thursday, Khan was summoned to appear before the National Accountability Bureau – the corruption agency behind his arrest – but sent a written response instead.
Local Punjabi police allege that Khan was “protecting 30 to 40 terrorists involved in the violent protests that broke out last week and hid them in his home.” Those claims were made on the basis of intelligence reports.
As Khan prepared to deliver a speech to his followers from his residence, a large number of Punjabi police officers gathered around his house. They gave the former prime minister 24 hours to report the alleged terrorists or they would invade. In his speech, Khan denied the presence of the terrorists in his house. He said the police should “issue a search warrant”, after which he claimed he would be arrested again.
But as of Thursday, no police had visited Khan’s home and the government said there was no plan to raid at this time. There are still police barricades on the roads around his house.
In his speech on Wednesday, Khan continued to speak out against the current government’s actions against members of his PTI party. He claimed that “more than 7,000 members had been arrested in recent days in a reign of terror against his party by the state”. “I fear today that Pakistan is on its way to destruction,” he added.