Imran Khan set to be charged with insulting Pakistan election officials

Security personnel with bulletproof shields escort Pakistan’s former PM Imran Khan (WK Yousafzai/AP)

Pakistan’s election oversight body is set to indict the country’s former prime minister Imran Khan next week on charges of publicly insulting its officials.

Mr Khan appeared before a special tribunal of the Election Commission of Pakistan along with his lawyers amid tight security in the capital, Islamabad.