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,

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

After daylong clashes with security personnel in which at least six were killed and dozens were injured, former Pakistani premier Imran Khan’s supporters retreated from Islamabad in the early hours of