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Supporters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan called off their massive street protest in the capital of Islamabad on Wednesday following massive overnight raids by police and paramilitary forces, which resulted in hundreds of injuries and more than a thousand arrests.
The demonstration, led by Khan’s wife Bushra Bibi, had plans to occupy the “red zone” of D-Chowk square until Khan was released and the government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif resigned. Those plans appear to have been scuttled after Wednesday’s Almost all of the protesters had cleared out by sunrise. An ominous symbol of the broken protest was the burned wreckage of the truck that carried Bushra Bibi to Islamabad.
Security officials described this week’s protesters as an invading army, armed with steel rods, clubs, slingshots, and tear gas launchers of their own, and accused them of committing vandalism and arson as they swept into Islamabad.
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