A moment after demonstrating in northern Islamabad, opposition supporters in Pakistan have temporarily called off demonstrations demanding the release of former prime minister Imran Khan.
Demonstrators had vowed never to leave the money until Khan’s release. However, as they made their way to Democracy Square on Tuesday, authorities pushed them up and poured tear gas into them.
In clashes that started on Sunday caused at least six deaths, four surveillance officers and two citizens.
Khan’s party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf ( PTI), said in a statement on Wednesday that the protests had been “temporarily suspended” due to the “government’s brutality”.
The protestors were quickly subjected to a sharp assault. By the time the government were finished, Khan’s adherents had already managed to get to the city’s center.
More than 500 PTI followers were detained by the police, according to a state resource, and his wife, Bushra Bibi, who had been organizing the opposition, has left the area, according to a government resource.
The PTI has launched an investigation after claiming that several of their group employees were killed during the assault.
A local hospital’s two sources reported receiving four bodies of residents with gunshot wounds over the course of one night.
The reports have n’t been independently verified by the BBC. Pakistan’s knowledge minister said the government had resisted firing on demonstrators.
In order to prevent conflicts with fleets of PTI supporters, Islamabad was put under lockdown. A significant security presence was also in place.
PTI head Ali Amin Gandapur and Khan’s family Bushra Bibi, who was released from prison in October and has since taken a more important role in efforts to mobilize support for Khan, led the fleets.
According to reports, Gandapur and Bushra Bibi left Peshawar and traveled back to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province where their convoy had originated.
According to reports, the protesters reportedly responded to Khan’s “final” phone, urging them to “fight until the finish” until their demands are satisfied.
They arrived in D-Chowk, a neighborhood of Islamabad’s main state buildings, where political demonstrations and protests have taken place since the 1980s.
However, just a small number of protesters made it that far.
Security personnel had effectively cleared the area by Tuesday night, just after protesters first arrived in the circle. The lights were off as the night came to a close, leaving just police and military soldiers about.
Khan has been imprisoned for more than a year for allegedly being socially inspired.
The former cricket star has proven to be a powerful force in Pakistan politicians even while he is still imprisoned. His group, which had been made to run as politicians and was barred from standing in elections in February, gained the support of the largest union.
But, they fell short of a lot and their foes united to form a new state.
The PTI has requested that the government’s say that the election results were rigged be disproven.