Pakistan politics: calls for former Prime Minister Imran Khan's release | The World

A United Nations human rights working group has called for the immediate release of the country's former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, saying he was arbitrarily imprisoned in violation of international law. Meanwhile, the government has vowed to continue attacks on what it calls terror targets in neighbouring Afghanistan. Director of the Centre for Muslim States and Societies at the University of Western Australia, Professor Samina Yasmeen, tells The World’s Beverley O'Connor that there’s been a lot of cross-border insurgency in recent years.
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