‘Amazing outpouring of support’: PTI supporters take to the streets throughout the country.
Supporters of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) flocked to the streets in droves across all major and minor towns to demonstrate their sympathy for their leader and former Prime Minister Imran Khan. Party supporters gathered in response to Khan’s appeal for peaceful protest.
A day after Khan was ousted from office, he stated in an address to the country that he would not tolerate the establishment of a “foreign government” in Pakistan and seek support from the population if this occurred.
“We are not a tissue paper nation,” Khan declared during live transmission, reiterating Pakistan’s opposition to unilateral relations with any country.
On April 10, Khan tweeted that today marked the start of a “liberation war” against what he described as an “international regime-change conspiracy.” He stated that “it is always the people that safeguard their sovereignty and democracy to rally his supporters.”
Thank you to all Pakistanis for their amazing outpouring of support & 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. Shows Pakistanis at home & abroad have emphatically rejected this
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) April 10, 2022
The PTI announced the protest locations hours before their supporters came to the streets.