The convoy of protesters protesting for the release of Imran Khan in Pakistan is moving towards the capital Islamabad. The protest started on Sunday 24 November on the appeal of Imran Khan. Imran has named this protest ‘Final Call’. To stop the protest, the police have arrested more than 4 thousand Imran supporters. These include 5 MPs as well. Meanwhile, the ongoing protest in Pakistan is getting support from all over the world. PTI supporters in more than 60 cities of the world are demanding the release of Imran Khan. PTI has shared pictures of protests from many cities of Canada, America, Britain on its social media platform. In view of the visit of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko to Pakistan today, the Shahbaz Sharif government has already tightened the security arrangements. The main roads leading to the capital Islamabad were closed on 23 November itself through containers. Thousands of police personnel have also been deployed. Mobile and internet services have been suspended in many areas. Three demands of protesters
Imran’s party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and supporters are protesting for 3 demands. The first demand is that Imran Khan and PTI workers should be released soon. Apart from this, accepting the results of the 2024 elections and withdrawing the 26th Constitutional Amendment Act passed in the Pakistani Parliament, which reduces the power of the courts. Imran Khan himself had appealed for this protest. He had asked PTI workers to join the protest on November 24 or leave the party. Imran has named this demonstration as Final Call. More than 100 cases against Khan
More than 100 cases are going on against Imran Khan. The local court of Islamabad convicted him in the Toshakhana case on August 5, 2023. After this, he was arrested from his house in Zaman Park, Islamabad and sent to jail. Later he was convicted in 2 more cases. According to English newspaper Dawn, if Imran comes out of jail, he will raise the demand for re-election in Pakistan. Imran’s Tehreek-e-Insaf party could not officially participate in the general elections held this year. In a post on Imran Khan’s X (Twitter) account on July 5, the general elections held on February 8 this year were called fake. In such a situation, the Shahbaz government or the army would not want Khan to be released at any cost. Won the maximum number of seats even while being in jail
General elections were held in Pakistan on February 8. Before this, Khan was convicted in 3 cases one after the other. Due to this, he could not participate in the elections. Before the elections, his party’s election symbol was taken away. All the party leaders contested the elections independently. Despite this, supporters of Khan’s party PTI got 93 seats out of 342 seats in the National Assembly of Pakistan. However, Pakistan Muslim League and Pakistan People’s Party formed the government together. Shahbaz Sharif became the Prime Minister. ————————- Read this news related to Pakistan too… 82 dead: 156 injured in violence in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; attackers took women and children hostage. The death toll in the violence that has been going on since Thursday in Kurram district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (KPK) in Pakistan has reached 82, while 156 people are injured. Among the dead are 16 Sunni and 66 Shia community people. The attackers have taken many people hostage, including women and children, and are refusing to hand over the bodies. Read full news…
