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By Mubasher Bukhari and Asif Shahzad LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) – Scores of supporters of Imran Khan barricaded his home on Friday to protect him as the former Pakistani prime minister waited to hear a ruling on whether security forces could launch an operation to arrest him for failing to show up in court. Ahead of the court decision, a tense calm prevailed in Khan’s Lahore neighbourhood which earlier this week was the scene of pitched battles between hundreds of supporters and security forces that had tried to force the former international cricketer to attend a hearing in a case in which he…