New Delhi, May 9 -- A petition was filed in a Pakistani court on Friday, 9 May, for the release of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan due to the fear of a drone attack on the prison where he is kept, amidst esclating tensions with India after the deadly Pahalgam attack in Jammu and Kashmir.

Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf was quoted as saying in a PTI report that the party's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur approached the Islamabad High Court for the release of the party founder.

Khan, 72, been incarcerated in Adiala Jail of Rawalpindi. He was arrested in May 2023 soon after he lost the vote of confidence as Prime Minister of Pakistan.

On Thursday evening, while India was intercepting Pakistan's missile and...