(5 Aug 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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Karachi, Pakistan – 5 August 2025
1. Police personnel firing tear gas shells toward supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan who were protesting for the release of Khan
2. Protesters throwing stones at police
3. Police personnel firing tear gas
4. Various of protestors fleeing and throwing stones
4. Police arresting protester
5. Armed personnel carrier patrolling with police personnel
6. Close of empty tear gas shells
7. Police personnel contingent marching on the road after dispersing protest rally
8. Various of women chanting, UPSOUND (Urdu) "Imran Khan is Prime Minister"
9. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Jamal Siddiqui, Local leader Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Khan’s party):
"People are protesting around the world against the illegal arrest of Imran Khan in false and fabricated cases. We are protesting for release of Imran Khan. We want that if you want progress and rule of law and constitution in the country then government must have to release the Imran Khan in false cases otherwise neither the country will get progress nor the economy."
10. Various of protestors carrying pro Khan posters and chanting
11. Top shot of khan supporters’ rally
STORYLINE:
Police arrested more than 200 supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday as they tried to hold rallies in cities throughout Pakistan to mark the second anniversary of his arrest, a party spokesman and officials said.
The detainees included Rehana Dar, 73, a politician from Khan’s party known for her fiery speeches against the government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
She was seen being thrown into a police truck in the northeastern city of Lahore.
Zulfiqar Bukhari, a spokesman for Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, or PTI, said police used batons and fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators in Lahore and the southern provincial capital of Karachi.
He said their party had planned peaceful rallies to denounce Khan’s incarceration and demand justice for him.
But the government responded by imposing a ban on gatherings in the capital, Islamabad, and Rawalpindi, where Khan is imprisoned following convictions in multiple cases against him that supporters say were politically motivated.
Many of the 200 arrests were in Rawalpindi, where supporters presumably were detained for violating the ban. Many of the other arrests were in Lahore, though it was unclear on what grounds.
The crackdown on PTI supporters came hours after Pakistan’s election oversight body disqualified opposition leader Omar Ayub Khan and several other PTI lawmakers following their convictions over their alleged role in riots that broke out in May 2023 after Khan’s initial arrest in a corruption case.
A former cricket star turned Islamist politician, Khan served as prime minister for over three and half years until he was ousted by a no-confidence vote in parliament in April 2022.
He is currently imprisoned in the garrison city of Rawalpindi following convictions in multiple cases in August 2023.
AP video by Muhammad Farooq
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