Pakistani police clashed with Imran Khan supporters outside the former premier’s home as security officials tried to arrest him for the second time, deepening a political crisis that’s overshadowing the nation’s economic turmoil.
Police fired tear gas and water cannons at Khan’s supporters late Tuesday to disperse them and clear the makeshift tents that have sprung up in the past few months around his home in the central city of Lahore. Protesters pelted the police with stones and broken bottles while a helicopter hovered over Khan’s house, television footage showed.
These supporters, which Khan’s aides say are in the thousands,