Pakistan's former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, a close aide of ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan, was arrested by police on Thursday.
A video shared by Qureshi's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party on Twitter shows plain-clothed men taking him away, with him waving at party workers before departing from the location where he was detained, reports AFP.
The PTI claimed that 66-year-old Shah Mehmood Qureshi was arrested by the Islamabad police in the early hours of Thursday and transferred to an "undisclosed location".
His arrest comes two days after paramilitary forces whisked away PTI chief and former premier Imran Khan on the orders of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) officials who barged into a room of the Islamabad High Court on Tuesday.
Imran Khan's dramatic arrest on Tuesday sparked widespread violent protests across Pakistan, leaving at least eight people dead and nearly 300 others injured in clashes between protesters and law enforcement agencies and prompting the authorities to deploy the army in the country's capital Islamabad, as well as in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces on Wednesday to maintain law and order.
The PTI has already announced to carry on the protests until Imran Khan is set free.
Imran Khan has been arrested during a court appearance in capital Islamabad.
After being removed from his position as Prime Minister through a no-confidence vote in April of the previous year, Imran Khan has been linked to more than one hundred incidents.
He believes that the US-led conspiracy was aimed at him because of his independent foreign policy decisions regarding Russia, China, and Afghanistan.
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