Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan's party suspended street protests demanding his release from jail after a sweeping midnight raid by security forces in the capital Islamabad in which hundreds of people were arrested,

Pakistani TV channels showed footage of Imran Khan's supporters facing tear gas and climbing on the shipping containers placed on the roads leading to D-Chowk in the heart of Islamabad.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif denounced the attack, saying an “anarchist group” was deliberately targeting law enforcement personnel.