(26 May 2022)
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Islamabad - 26 May 2022.
1. Various of former Prime Minister Imran Khan supporters throwing stones towards police and pulling down a shipping container near Parliament
2. Protesters walking past shipping containers and towards restricted area
3. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Imran Khan, Former Pakistani Prime Minister:
"I am giving you (the government) six days to announce a new election date, Announce election dates in the month of June, dissolve assemblies. If you do not, then I will come back to Islamabad with all of my men."
4. Supporters chanting and clapping
5. Various of supporters dancing
6. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Zohaib Khan, supporter:
"I want to send a message to all and our leader Khan, don't worry we have come here and removed all the hurdles. With the grace of God we will end this imported government."
7. Top shot of Khan supporters
8. Various of security personnel
9. Wide of supporters
STORYLINE:
Pakistan's defiant former Prime Minister Imran Khan cancelled a planned, open-ended sit-in in Islamabad on Thursday, temporarily assuaging fears of protracted civil conflict after he led thousands on a march toward parliament demanding the government's resignation.
Khan's followers began converging on the capital on Wednesday, with some 10,000 reaching the city center around midnight.
Khan entered as part of a large convoy of cars, buses and trucks, and demonstrators rallied overnight, with some clashing with police outside Parliament.
He gave Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif — who replaced him in April — less than a week to call for new elections, warning that if his government didn't comply, he'd return to the capital with three million supporters.
"I am giving you six days," Khan said from a sound truck parked on the central Jinnah Avenue early on Thursday, demanding the dissolution of Parliament as well. "If you don't do it after six days, I will return," he said.
Khan, a former cricket star turned Islamist politician, was prime minister for over three and half years until he was ousted last month by a no-confidence vote in Parliament.
Since then, he has held rallies across the country, saying his removal from office was the result of a U.S.-organized plot. Washington has denied the allegation, and Sharif has called Khan's claim "a pack of lies."
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