Imran Khan released from jail - spokesman

Students rally around cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan after his arrival at the University of Punjab campus in Lahore in this November 14, 2007 file photo. REUTERS/Stringer

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan released Imran Khan on Wednesday, his spokesman said, days after the cricketer-turned-politician was detained during a round-up of thousands of opponents of President Pervez Musharraf.

Khan was arrested last week after trying to start a student uprising against Musharraf's imposition of emergency rule.

"Our party workers in (the eastern city of) D.G. Khan told me that he has come out of jail," Khan's spokesman Hafeezullah Khan Niazi told Reuters.