LONDON (National Times)- PTI and PML-N supporters confronted each other during a rowdy demonstration outside Avenfield apartments a day after Imran Khan was voted out of power.<\/p>\n
On instructions of Imran Khan, PTI UK\u2019s leadership had announced that a protest will be held at Hyde Park Corner which will then march towards the American embassy but the organisers decided not to head there and instead assembled out at the Avenfield flats first and then moved from there to the Pakistan High Commission.<\/p>\n
PTI\u2019s supporters came from all over the UK and gathered in Hyde Park where emotional speeches were delivered for about two hours. The protestors then moved to Avenfield flats \u2014 located just five minutes away \u2014 where supporters of PML-N had already gathered to celebrate the possible election of Shahbaz Sharif as the next prime minister of Pakistan and the ouster of Imran Khan.<\/p>\n
Outside the residence of Nawaz Sharif\u2019s sons Hasan and Hussain Nawaz, supporters from both sides faced each other during a charged protest which lasted for over three hours.<\/p>\n
PTI\u2019s protestors raised slogans to protest the ouster of Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan through a vote of no confidence.<\/p>\n
PM Imran Khan was ousted on Saturday after he lost the vote of no confidence in the National Assembly. Supporters were carrying banners showing support for Imran Khan and alleging that he has been removed through a \u201cforeign conspiracy\u201d \u2013 a claim made by Imran Khan which has been denied by Pakistan\u2019s top security sources.<\/p>\n
Imran Khan\u2019s supporters said that Imran Khan should have remained in power till 2028 and was only driven out by the “corrupt” and \u201csellouts\u201d bending to pressure from the US government. They said that the US government had conspired with the Opposition parties as well as PTI\u2019s own dissidents to remove Imran Khan from power. The protestors called Pakistan\u2019s entire Opposition and dissident PTI lawmakers \u201ctraitors\u201d.<\/p>\n
PML-N workers had arranged a dhol since morning and the dholists played to the full capacity, drowning out slogans of PTI till the time they left.<\/p>\n
Around 50 policemen remained on the scene throughout the protest. They separated the two sides and didn\u2019t let them come close to each other, restricting them to their columns on the street outside the Avenfield flats. PTI pelted eggs onto the PML-N crowd who responded by throwing bottles of water toward the PTI\u2019s gathering.<\/p>\n
PTI leaders didn\u2019t explain why they decided not to go to the US embassy for the protest as originally planned.<\/p>\n
PTI workers raised slogans saying “imported government not accepted\u201d, \u201cNo Imran, no remittances\u201d, \u201ctraitors\u201d, and \u201cno to regime change,\u201d while PML-N supporters responded by chanting “losers, losers”, \u201cAleema Baaji is a thief\u201d and \u201carrest Farah Gogi\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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