Khan faces probe:

Thousands of supporters of former Tamil Nadu state chief minister and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam political party chief

Muthuvel Karunanidhi, wait for their turn to offer tributes to their leader in Chennai, India on Aug 8. (AP)

A spokesman says Pakistan’s next prime minister, Imran Khan, has appeared before an anti-graft bureau in connection with his alleged misuse of a government helicopter.

Umair Khan, a spokesman for Khan’s Tahreek-e-Insaf party, says the National Accountability Bureau handed the premierdesignate a questionnaire about the case on Tuesday. The spokesman and the future prime minister are not related.

Imran Khan is to reply by the end of August.

Khan, a former cricket star, is accused of using the helicopter for private visits while his party governed the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province from 2013 to 2018. This had reportedly cost the local authorities 2.17 million rupees, or $20,000.

Khan’s party won the most parliament seats in last month’s general elections and he is expected to take over as prime minister next week. (AP) of teenagers and students paralyse traffic in the capital Dhaka and beyond. Eight buses were torched and hundreds of vehicles vandalised.

Police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets while allegedly pro-government mobs attacked demonstrators, photographers and even the US ambassador’s car.

Students said on Tuesday that many went back to school as they fear further government repression if the protests continued.

“We are panicked. We hear that some of the students who took part in yesterday’s protests have been arrested,” a private university student told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Another student, Ratul Abdullah, said four of his friends have been missing since yesterday.

“Today everything is normal. Students have returned to their classes,” Mahbubur Rahman, head of Bangladesh’s secondary and higher education authority, told AFP. (AFP)