Imran Khan's party ends protests in Pakistan after crackdown

Former Prime Minister Imran Khan's Pakistani opposition party ended its protests in the capital Islamabad on Wednesday as the government arrested hundreds of its supporters in an overnight crackdown following two days of deadly demonstrations.

The “police forces have cleared the main avenue” of Islamabad, according to a press release from the Interior Ministry early in the morning. Top leaders of Khan's party, including his wife Bushra Bibi and Ali Amin Gandapur, who led the protest, escaped from the area, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi told reporters after the crackdown.

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf called off the protest after the government's “brutal action,” Atif Khan, an MP from Khan's party, said in a text message.

The protest that began on Sunday killed at least six people, including four security officials, and shook the country's financial markets on Tuesday. Thousands of Khan's supporters have broken through roadblocks and clashed with police over the past two days to converge on Islamabad, defying efforts by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's government to prevent them from entering the city.

Protesters gathered near the red zone on Tuesday and the party announced it would stage a sit-in until the government agrees to their demand to release Khan from prison. The former cricket star is facing over 150 cases ranging from corruption to abuse of power as he served as prime minister for around four years until 2022.

The search operation is underway and a large number of protesters who launched a sit-in in Islamabad demanding Khan's release from jail have been arrested, Information Minister Attaullah Tarar told ARY News earlier . The main protest area has been cleared and all barricades will be removed on Wednesday, Tarar said.

The protest is seen as the biggest political challenge since Sharif's coalition government took power after February's national elections. The prime minister said such protests were distracting from his government, which is trying to reform the country's weak economy by making tough decisions under the International Monetary Fund's new lending program. These include taxing the agriculture and retail sectors which have resisted attempts in the past.

(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

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