Pakistan’s ex-foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi detained

Tehreek-e-Insaf party’s spokesperson Zulfi Bukhari says the specific reason for the detention of Qureshi, twice Pakistan’s foreign minister, was not immediately clear.

Pakistani opposition leader and former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi was detained on Saturday, his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party said, just hours after he said it would challenge any delay to the country’s election in the courts.