A Pakistani court ordered former Prime Minister Imran Khan's release on bail for two weeks, his lawyer said on Friday.
His arrest on Tuesday ignited deadly protests and a tussle with the military, which have been ongoing since.
The arrest, which the Supreme Court ruled "invalid and unlawful" a day earlier, has fuelled instability in the nation of 220 million at a time of economic crisis, with record inflation, anaemic growth and delayed IMF funding. Nearly 2,000 people have been arrested for violence since Tuesday, when Khan was detained by the anti-graft agency in a land fraud case.
"The Islamabad High Court has given a two week bail and also ordered the not to arrest Imran Khan during this period," his lawyer Faisal Chaudhry told reporters after the hearing.
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