Protests erupt in Islamabad as supporters rally for former Pakistani PM Imran Khan

Incarcerated former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s supporters on Saturday flooded Pakistan’s capital Islamabad despite blocked roads and the police using tear gas.

Thousands of members of Khan’s party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), who spent last night on the Islamabad-Peshawar motorway, arrived in the city this afternoon.

Police resisted and fired huge tear gas shells and rubber bullets to disperse protesters while enraged activists also threw back tear gas shells toward riot police.

The protesters were led by Ali Amin Gandapur, chief minister of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Later Gandapur went to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa guest house in Islamabad, where paramilitaries and police raided his official guest house and arrested dozen of his workers.