Pakistan live: Stalemate outside Imran Khan’s residence continues

• The stalemate between former Pakistani PM Imran Khan’s supporters and law enforcement officers continues for a second consecutive day near his residence in Lahore.
• Police from capital Islamabad are trying to arrest Khan in a case pertaining to his selling state gifts given by foreign leaders while he was prime minister.
• Khan’s party says tear gas firing resumes outside his residence
• Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party has said in a social media post that tear gas shelling by the police has resumed outside his Zaman Park residence in Lahore.
• Translation: Shelling resumes in and around Zaman Park area (in Lahore)
• In his speech earlier on Wednesday, Khan displayed empty shells that he said were fired inside his house during the police operation on Tuesday.
• Khan: ‘Arrest claim mere drama, real intent to abduct and assassinate’
• In a tweet on Wednesday, Imran Khan said the police’s attempt to arrest him is “mere drama” and their real intent is to “abduct and assassinate”.
• “Clearly ‘arrest’ claim was mere drama because real intent is to abduct & assassinate. From tear gas & water cannons, they have now resorted to live firing. I signed a surety bond last evening, but the DIG refused to even entertain it. There is no doubt of their mala fide intent,” he posted on Twitter.
• Ready to give surety bond to appear in court: Imran Khan
• Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is willing to give a surety bond that he will appear in court on Saturday, he said in a video address as clashes continued between his supporters and law enforcers.
• A lower trial court in capital Islamabad had issued a arrest warrant for Khan for not appearing before it despite several summons. Khan is accused of unlawfully selling state gifts while in power from 2018 to 2022, but he denies wrongdoing.
• In the address early on Wednesday, Khan said there were security concerns at the court he was supposed to appear before in Islamabad as there had been two militant attacks there previously.

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