BackImran Khan’s Karachi protest rally attracts thousands
PTI leader Arif Alvi claimed that around 150,000 people attended the rally but independent observers put the numbers at around 70 to 80,000
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Karachi: Thousands turned up at Imran Khan’s anti-government protest rally in Karachi on Sunday as he renewed his demand for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to quit and fresh elections to end Pakistan’s political logjam that has paralysed the nation for over a month.
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) chief and cricketer-turned-politician Khan managed to attract a sizable crowd which included women, youth and children at the rally held in front of the Quaid-e-Azam mausoleum.
PTI leader Arif Alvi claimed that around 150,000 people attended the rally but independent observers put the numbers at around 70 to 80,000. Khan’s party managed to hold the rally here in Pakistan’s largest city which has for the last two decades remained the stronghold of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM).
Encamped in Islamabad for the last 31 days at his sit-in, Khan was clearly happy with the turnout in Karachi as throughout his speech the thousands kept on clapping and chanting pro-Imran slogans as well as the popular anti-government slogan, “Go Nawaz, go!"
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