‘Amazing outpouring of support’: PTI supporters rock streets countrywide

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) supporters took to the streets across all major and small cities in massive numbers to show their solidarity with their leader and former Prime Minister Imran Khan. Party supporters came out following a call given by Khan for peaceful protest.

A day after Khan was voted out of power, he, during an address to the nation, had said that he will not tolerate the installation of a “foreign government” in Pakistan and that he will turn to the public for support if such a thing happens.

“We are not a nation that can be used like tissue papers,” Khan said during a live telecast, maintaining that Pakistan does not want unilateral relations with any country.

Earlier in the day on April 10, Khan tweeted that today marked the beginning of a “freedom struggle” against what he called was a “foreign regime-change conspiracy”. In an attempt to galvanize his supporters, he said “it is always the people who protected their own sovereignty and democracy.”

PTI had shared the venues for the protests hours before their supporters took to the streets. 

Islamabad

The protest in the capital started from Zero Point. People waved flags while chanting slogans in favour of the former prime minister.

Former Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry thanked PTI supporters for turning out to Rawalpindi for the protest.

Lahore

PTI leader Hammad Azhar posted a video of a rally from his constituency of NA-126 leaving for Liberty Chowk.

Peshawar

A large number of protesters including women and children turned up at Peshawar Press Club and expressed solidarity with the ousted prime minister.

Karachi

A protest was held in Karachi on Rashid Minhas Road where a large number of supporters, including women and children, were in attendance.

Overseas Pakistani too came out in support of Khan.

Khan thanks protestors for ‘amazing outpouring of support’

Imran thanked his supporters in a tweet done prior to midnight.

“Thank you to all Pakistanis for their amazing outpouring of support and emotions to protest against US-backed regime change abetted by local Mir Jafars to bring into power a coterie of pliable crooks all out on bail,” he tweeted.

“[It] shows Pakistanis at home and abroad have emphatically rejected this.”