Khan requested supporters to converge on Dec. 13 within the northwestern city of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province
Reuters
06 December, 2024, 06:35 pm
Final modified: 06 December, 2024, 06:44 pm
Pakistan’s jailed extinct High Minister Imran Khan has known as on his supporters to preserve a rally subsequent week and threatened to originate a civil disobedience motion days after his birthday party led a lethal assert march in Islamabad.
In a post on X on Thursday, Khan requested supporters to converge on Dec. 13 within the northwestern city of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province which is ruled by his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) birthday party.
He demanded a judicial probe into the crackdown on the Nov 25 assert march which he acknowledged killed at the least 12 of his supporters and violence on Can also 9 final twelve months which killed 8. All arrested political workers must serene furthermore be launched, he acknowledged.
“If these two requires are now no longer met, a civil disobedience motion will originate from December 14, and the authorities will be held to blame for any penalties,” Khan acknowledged.
The authorities denies any deaths throughout the Nov 25 assert march, and says that Khan’s supporters had attacked military installations on Can also 9 final twelve months.
Khan became indicted on Thursday on charges of directing the Can also 9 attacks, to which he pleaded now no longer guilty.
The indictment became basically the latest in dozens of cases against the 72-twelve months-extinct extinct cricket extensive title, who has been in jail since slow final twelve months.
He and his birthday party hiss the cases had been made as a lot as preserve him out of politics at the behest of the military after he had fallen out with the military’s generals before his 2022 ouster.
The military denies the accusation.
