Pakistanis hold mass rallies in support of Imran Khan

ISLAMABAD, April 11 (YPA) –  Thousands of supporters of former prime minister Imran Khan took to the streets of Pakistani cities late on Sunday a day after the incumbent leader lost a no-confidence vote in parliament.

Supporters of Khan, a former cricket star, staged mass rallies in several cities across the country to protest the prime minister’s ouster.

On Sunday, Imran Khan said that his country is under a “foreign conspiracy to change the regime.”

“Pakistan became an independent state in 1947; but the freedom struggle begins again today against a foreign conspiracy of regime change. It is always the people of the country who defend their sovereignty and democracy,” Imran Khan wrote on his Twitter account

Pakistan’s parliament voted Saturday in favour of a no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government, while the speaker and deputy parliament resigned ahead of the decision, and parliament will vote on a new prime minister on Monday.

Imran Khan called on Pakistanis to act to abort what he described as an attempt to undermine the country’s sovereignty, stressing that the efforts to isolate him reflect Washington’s indignation at its opposition to its policies in the region.

He held foreign forces responsible for the current political crisis in his country.

E.M