Pakistan’s army has sacked three senior officers, including a lieutenant-general, for failing to avert violent clashes that erupted across the country last month in response to former prime minister Imran Khan’s arrest.

Major General Ahmad Sharif Chaudhry said at least 102 people are being tried in military courts in relation to the violence.

Mr Chaudhry declined to name the senior officers who had been fired.

Strict departmental action has also been taken against another 15 army officers, including major generals and brigadiers, he said.

He said the punishments had been awarded after two separate army inquiries were completed into the May 9 violence.

Thousands of Khan’s supporters had rampaged through scores of military installations and vandalised them, including an air base, several cantonments, the house of a general and the army’s headquarters.

Reuters