Now, the name of the member we met is Shah Mahmood Qureshi, and we and other members of the press surrounded him. And outside, we met a member of Khan's party, known as PTI.
Police even used shipping containers to block the road leading to the compound. HADID: It's highly unusual, and it's certainly to keep people out. Is it? Is that for security, to keep people out? MARTIN: So the court case is being held in a police compound. It's to stop him from running in elections. Now, Khan says the case is politically motivated. He was arrested, as Steve noted, on that court's orders, in a case surrounding money allegedly funneled to a powerful building tycoon. But there's a lot of action around a police compound on Islamabad's outskirts, and that's where the former prime minister attended a hastily arranged hearing of an anti-corruption court. MARTIN: NPR international correspondent Diaa Hadid lives in Islamabad and has been following all this and is with us now. The arrest of a politician who is seeking office again triggered protests across the country. And he was in court on one charge yesterday when paramilitary forces arrested him to face charges in a different case. The ousted prime minister is campaigning to get his job back, but he faces many corruption cases. He is in the custody of the security forces after a chaotic day in Islamabad.
The ruling comes a day after he was arrested by paramilitary forces, which touched off violent, and sometimes deadly, protests across Pakistan. A judge in Pakistan is ordering that the former prime minister, Imran Khan, be held for at least eight days.
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