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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Mubasher Bukhari

Pakistan's ex-premier Imran Khan set to march on Islamabad to demand snap polls

Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan waves the national flag during what they call 'a true freedom march', to pressure the government to announce new elections, in Lahore, Pakistan October 28, 2022. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan gathered hundreds of supporters in the eastern city of Lahore on Friday to join a caravan of cars and trucks heading for the capital Islamabad to pressure the government into calling snap polls.

Since being ousted in April through a parliamentary vote, Khan has held rallies across Pakistan, stirring opposition against a government that is struggling to bring the economy out of the crisis that Khan's administration left it in.

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