PTI holds countrywide protests as 'emergency committee' to announce next course of action.

ISLAMABAD -- The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) workers are holding countrywide protests as they await the announcement of a six-member committee for the next course of action following party chairman Imran Khan's arrest in the Al-Qadir Trust case.

PTI workers held protests in cities across the country, including Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Karachi, Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Multan, Peshawar, and Mardan.

In Karachi, demonstrators clashed with the police near Nursery. They threw stones at and set fire to police vehicles, tore down street lights and damaged a bus. There were reports that police fired teargas shells at the protesters. Police also fired teargas shells at protesters on Rawalpindi's Murree Road.

The PTI chairman was arrested as part of the National Accountability Bureau's (NAB) investigation in the Al-Qadir Trust case ahead of his appearance before the Islamabad High Court (IHC) to seek bail in multiple FIRs registered against him.

Rangers personnel driving a black Toyota Hilux Vigo shifted Imran Khan to NAB's Rawalpindi office.

In a statement, PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi said a meeting...