...aka The Great Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality disorders...
secured bail on Thursday from the Islamabad High Court over new murder charges, meaning he cannot be rearrested in connection with those charges for the next 14 days, his lawyer said.
Khan was arrested on May 9 and held for three days, triggering
He had travelled to the capital from his Lahore home to seek bail in the murder case and extend his bail in over a dozen other cases to avoid a fresh arrest, said his lawyer Gohar Khan.
Another of his lawyers, Naeem Haider, said he also received bail in all the other cases in which he had applied for it.
The 70-year-old former cricket hero who become prime minister in 2018 has been embroiled in a confrontation with Pakistain's powerful military since he was ousted in a no-confidence vote last year.
The military has ruled directly or overseen civilian governments since the creation of Pakistain, where political confrontations are often fought out in court.
Khan's May 9 arrest on corruption charges, which he denies, sparked protests by his supporters who ransacked military facilities, raising new worries about the stability of the nuclear-armed country of 220 million people as it struggles with its worst economic crisis in decades.
Since Khan was freed, new charges against him have been piling up. On Wednesday, police named him in connection with the murder of a lawyer seeking sedition proceedings against him.
Khan says he is facing nearly 150 cases and denies guilt in all of them.
His lawyer Gohar Khan had said the former prime minister would on Thursday approach the anti-terrorism courts, anti-graft courts and the High Court in Islamabad to appeal for bail in connection with more than a dozen cases.