Pakistan's ex-prime minister Imran Khan is to be freed from custody, a day after the Supreme Court ruled his dramatic arrest on corruption charges was illegal.
Judges granted Mr Khan protected bail, meaning he can not be re-arrested on those charges for two weeks.
The court also ordered he could not be arrested on any charges filed after last Tuesday until 17 May.
Despite the rulings, the corruption charges against Mr Khan still stand.
The 70-year-old - who was arrested on Tuesday as he arrived at a courthouse in Islamabad - pleaded not guilty to the charges when a judge formally indicted him with corruption for the first time in the dozens of cases he faces.
Officials say Mr Khan unlawfully sold state gifts during his premiership, in a case brought by Pakistan's Election Commission.
EDnews informs via BBC that he remained at court after the hearing on Friday seeking preventive bail against other charges, which he told the BBC included counts of terrorism, sedition and blasphemy.
Conviction would disqualify the former international cricket star - and Pakistan's prime minister from 2018 to 2022 - from standing for office, possibly for life. Elections are due later this year.
Mr Khan had arrived at the hearing under heavy armed guard, and greeted supporters with a single raised fist.
Speaking during Friday's hearing, Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial said the arrest was unlawful because it took place on court premises.
He ordered that the "whole process" of Mr Khan's arrest "needs to be backtracked".
The dramatic saga has significantly escalated tensions between Mr Khan and Pakistan's powerful military.
Many analysts believe Mr Khan's election win in 2018 happened with the help of the military, which both parties denied.
But he later fell out with the army. After a series of defections, and amid mounting economic crises, he lost his majority in parliament.
Since being ousted less than four years into his term, he has become one of the military's most vocal critics, and analysts say the army's popularity has fallen.
And his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party says the charges against him - which relate to gifts given to him by foreign leaders while he served as prime minster - are politically motivated.
