Last Updated: February 18, 2024, 18:24 IST
The protesters chanted slogans, demanding the restoration of their stolen mandate. (AP/File)
Supporters were chanting Imran Khan’s name as well as slogans like “Tera Yaar, Mera Yaar Qaidi number 804.” Imran Khan is currently lodged in Adila Jail and his number is 804
A wave of support was seen for jailed former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday during the first match of the Pakistan Super League as the crowd raised slogans in support of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf leader after the general elections results.
Pakistanis were chanting Imran Khan’s name as well as slogans like “Tera Yaar, Mera Yaar Qaidi number 804.” Imran Khan is currently lodged in Adila Jail and his number is 804.
Earlier huge number of T-shirts were made with the number 804 to show support for Imran Khan but were stopped after intervention by the establishment
Pakistan’s establishment is currently facing allegations of involvement in poll rigging after a senior bureaucrat claimed that the top election body and judiciary were involved in the poll rigging.
Former Rawalpindi Commissioner Liaquat Ali Chattha on Saturday alleged that the candidates who were “losing” the elections “were made to win” in the city. He claimed that 13 candidates from Rawalpindi were forcefully declared winners.
On establishment directions, he changed the lead of 50000 to defeat, the former bureaucrat said.
This is the first time, such a mass movement has been seen in Pakistan against the army dictatorship.
Supporters of Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister also clashed with police in various cities across the country as they staged protests against alleged rigging in the general elections held on February 8.
In Lahore, supporters of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf gathered outside the Lahore Press Club and the party’s Jail Road office on Saturday to register their protest.
The protesters chanted slogans, demanding the restoration of their stolen mandate. They called for rectified results based on the vote count as per Form 45, prepared at polling stations under the watch of political parties’ polling agents