Earlier Saturday, a courtroom convicted him in an asset concealment case, handing down a jail sentence that might see him barred from politics.
The Islamabad courtroom issued the arrest warrant after convicting Khan, with police in Lahore transferring rapidly to take him from his residence to the Pakistani capital.
It is a contemporary blow to Khan’s bid to return to energy.
Since his ousting from energy in a no-confidence vote within the parliament in April 2022, Khan has been slapped with greater than 150 authorized instances, together with a number of on expenses of corruption, terrorism and inciting folks to violence over lethal protests in Might that noticed his followers assault authorities and army property throughout the nation.
Khan served as prime minister of Pakistan from August 2018 to April 2022 and is well-known to Australian cricket followers because the champion all-rounder who captained his nation to victory within the first One Day Cricket World Cup ever held in Australia, in 1992.
