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By Aamir Latif, Kzarachi, Pakistan: A Pakistani court on Thursday acquitted the country’s key opposition leader Imran Khan in a case related to "torture" on a senior police officer during his party’s sit-in outside parliament in Islamabad in 2014, court records and local media reported. Khan, a former cricket hero, was allegedly involved in an attack on the then police chief of the capital, Ismatullah Junejo, by angry protesters who wanted to march towards parliament. Several police officers, including Junejo, were injured in the attack. Khan, whose right-wing Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) has emerged...