Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan gave this Thursday, May 26, a six-day ultimatum to the Pakistani government to call general electionsor else he threatened to press on with more mass protests.
I’m giving a six-day ultimatum to the ‘Imported Government’
“I am giving the ‘imported government’ a six-day ultimatum, they must dissolve the assemblies within the next six days and announce new elections,” Khan said in a speech to thousands of supporters in Islamabad.
“On the contrary, I will march again to Islamabad with hundreds of thousands of people“, warned the deposed president before followers of his political formation, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI).
Khan began on May 25 a large march towards the Pakistani capital, which resulted in numerous clashes between his followers and the Police, who they used tear gas to disperse the thousands of supporters who demanded early elections to the government of Sheshbaz Sharif.
After his departure from the Government on April 9 due to a motion of censure, Khan began a harsh “campaign for freedom”announcing a series of protests across the country.
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This May 25, the Supreme Court gave the ‘green light’ to Khan to carry out this great marchafter the Sharif government opposed it for fear that they would enter the so-called “Red Zone”, which houses foreign embassies and missions.
A day before the protest began, whose starting point was the northern city of Peshawar, one of the main strongholds of Khan’s party, the formation denounced the arrest of more than 400 of its workers, in an attempt to boycott “the largest political march in the country.
Before the decision of the Supreme, the authorities also tried to curb PTI supporters with the deployment of strong contingents of police and paramilitary forcesin addition to the blockade of the highways that connect with the capital.
Khan became the first minister in the country’s history to be removed from office by a motion of censure.
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The former prime minister continues to accuse the United States of having supported the opposition to overthrow him and change the regime in Pakistan, accusations that Washington has always denied.
Before him, Shaukat Aziz, in 2006, and Benazir Bhutto, in 1989, survived the movements against them. But no prime minister in Pakistan’s history has completed his term since the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 and its independence from the British Empire.
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