Suhrawardy To Imran Khan: All The Prime Ministers Of Pakistan Who Were Arrested: IN PICS

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan becomes the latest in a line of arrested former premiers in Pakistan. A glimpse of all the Pakistan Prime Ministers arrested so far:

Pakistan has a long history of arresting people who have held the post of prime minister

Imran Khan's arrest on Saturday marked his second encounter with the legal system this year. The former premier was taken into custody outside the Islamabad High Court in May, where he had appeared for hearings in two separate cases. This recent development adds a new chapter to his legal saga. (Source: Getty)

PML-N’s Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, who served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan from January 2017 to May 2018, was also arrested on July 19, 2019, by a 12-member NAB team for alleged corruption charges. (Source:Getty)

Nawaz Sharif was arrested and awarded a 10-year sentence on corruption charges by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) along with his daughter Maryam Nawaz in July 2018. (Source:Getty)

Benazir Bhutto was put under house arrest for a week in Punjab in November 2007 in order to stop her from leading a long march against Gen Musharraf’s dictatorial government. (Source:Getty)

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who served as the Prime Minister from August 1973 to July 1977, was arrested in September 1977 for conspiring to murder a political opponent. (Source:Getty)

Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy was the fifth Prime Minister of Pakistan from September 1956 to October 1957. In January 1962, he was arrested and put in solitary confinement in the Central Jail of Karachi. (Source:Getty)

The current Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif was arrested on September 28, 2020, after the Lahore High Court rejected his bail in a NAB money laundering case. (Source:Getty)