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“He [Imran Riaz Khan] returned home safely this morning [Monday],” Khan’s younger brother Usman Riaz Khan told Al Jazeera. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Sialkot police wrote that Khan was "found safe and sound" and was now with his family. However, the police did not provide any information about where the journalist was found. Khan 's lawyer, Mian Ashfaq Ali, told Al Jazeera that it took a long time for the journalist to return due to "countless difficulties and a weak justice system". Khan's arrest came two days after deadly violence erupted in Pakistan to protest the arrest of Imran Khan on corruption charges. Four days after the arrest, police told the Lahore court that the journalist had been released within 24 hours. However, there was no trace of him and the police denied having him in custody. No one claimed responsibility for Khan's disappearance, but many believed he had been kidnapped by security agencies controlled by the countr...

  Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif claims his 2017 ouster was orchestrated by the country's former powerful military and intelligence chiefs after he was forced to resign following a corruption conviction. On Monday, Sharif spoke to leaders of his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party via video link from London, where he has lived in exile since 2019. At the time - and despite being tried on corruption charges, which he has always denied - Sharif was allowed by the government of his successor, Prime Minister Imran Khan, to leave Pakistan for medical treatment abroad. When Sharif later did not return, the court declared him a fugitive from justice. Sharif's party announced on Tuesday that he would return ahead of general elections next month. After Khan was ousted in a no-confidence vote in April 2022, Sharif's younger brother Shehbaz Sharif served as prime minister until August, when he resigned to allow a caretaker govern...