Imran Khan’s Party to Protest Alleged Pakistan Poll Rigging
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Tehreek-e-Insaf party supporters during a protest in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Feb. 11.
Photographer: Abdul Majeed/AFP/Getty ImagesJailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s political party announced to hold nationwide protests against the alleged rigging in last week’s national elections that delivered a split mandate and deepened the political crisis.
The party’s interim chairman Gohar Ali Khan, who replaced the former cricket star after he was convicted in four different cases from corruption to illegal wedding, called on the supporters to “fight until you win back the party’s true mandate.”