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Imran Khan, the PTI leader and former Pakistani prime minister, was arrested by paramilitary troops on 9 May 2023.In response, PTI supporters and workers began to demonstrate against Khan's arrest in a number of cities, including in Lahore, Rawalpindi, Sargodha, Gujranwala, Faisalabad, and Multan.
In 2018, Imran Khan became the prime minister of Pakistan, but later had a falling-out with the country's army. Following a series of defections, he lost his parliamentary majority. [ 9 ] Subsequently, Khan was ousted through a vote of no confidence , and he accused the then Chief of Army Staff, Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, of orchestrating the move.
After ouster from office Khan alleged that he was ousted by the PDM-an alliance of 13 political parties. Leading up to these protests was the 2022 Toshakhana reference case, a Pakistani government inquiry registered against Imran Khan by the Election Commission of Pakistan. Khan was believed to have been evading mandatory hearings appearances.
A rally truck used by Bushra Bibi, the wife of Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan, burns near the red zone after a protest to demand Khan's release (AFP via Getty Images)
On 13 November 2024, Imran Khan issued a "final call" for a protest on November 24 in Islamabad from his imprisonment in Adiala Jail. The announcement was in response to the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan, which he criticised for infringing on rights. Khan and his party opposed the amendment, describing it as an attack ...
On 3 November 2022, while Khan was giving a speech in Wazirabad, Punjab, to his supporters, shots were fired by a gunman at Khan's container-mounted-truck. According to an aide of Khan, the truck was fired at six times. [14] A Khan supporter by the name of Ibtisam [15] tried to tackle the gunman. [16]
Imran Khan also endorsed Alvi's decision to decline the summoning of the session and said that they were drafting a letter to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), [295] urging for the condition that any of its discussions with the incoming PML-N/PPP coalition government should be contingent upon an independent audit of the general election. [296]
Khan's calls received a broadly positive response from the general public, with a Gallup survey declaring Imran Khan as the most popular current political leader in Pakistan, with 61% of Pakistanis having a positive opinion about him, followed by 36% for the PML-N's Nawaz Sharif and former foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, respectively.