Supporters of Pakistan's former PM Khan gather outside his home to block arrest

Scores of supporters of Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan gathered outside his hilltop mansion in Islamabad on Monday, vowing to prevent his arrest on anti-terrorism accusations, officials of his political party said.

The protesters chanted slogans against the government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, which took over after Khan's ouster in a confidence vote in April.

The move follows a police case filed against Khan on Aug. 20 for threatening government officials in a public speech about the alleged police torture of one of his aides, who faces sedition charges for inciting mutiny in the powerful military.

Saturday's police report cited Khan saying that he "would not spare" Islamabad's police chief and a female judge for the arrest of his aide. Legal experts say the public threats put the officials' lives at stake, and actually amounted to threatening the state, so the anti-terrorism charges applied.

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