ISLAMABAD: Imran Khan has referred to as on his supporters to preserve a rally next week and threatened to start a civil disobedience motion days after his celebration led a lethal protest march in Islamabad. In a post on X on Thursday, Khan requested supporters to converge on Dec. 13 within the northwestern town of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that is dominated via his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party. He demanded a judicial probe into the crackdown at the Nov 25 protest march which he said killed as a minimum 12 of his supporters and violence on May 9 final 12 months which killed 8. All arrested political employees should also be launched, he stated. “If these two demands are not met, a civil disobedience movement will start from December 14, and the government might be held liable for any effects,” Khan said. The authorities denies any deaths at some point of the Nov 25 protest march, and says that Khan’s supporters had attacked navy installations on May 9 final yr. Khan became indicted on Thursday on expenses of directing the May 9 attacks, to which he pleaded not guilty. The indictment became the modern-day in dozens of instances in opposition to the 72-yr-vintage former cricket big name, who has been in prison since late remaining 12 months. He and his celebration say the instances have been made as much as keep him out of politics on the behest of the army after he had fallen out with the navy’s generals ahead of his 2022 ouster.
