Imran Khan warns of 'civil war' in Pakistan if elections not announced
Highlights
- Khan said he is waiting for SC to decide on his party's plea to provide protection to his supporters
- He recently held 'Azadi March' along with his supporters which had led to much chaos in Islamabad
- Imran Khan also said he would issue the date for the next march demanding general elections
Imran Khan has warned of a civil war in Pakistan if fresh elections are not announced. The ousted prime minister said he is waiting for the Supreme Court to decide on his party's plea to provide protection to the protestors.
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman also said he would issue the date for the next march demanding general elections, the Dawn newspaper reported.
"We will see if they allow us to go towards elections through legal and constitutional means otherwise this country will go towards (a) civil war," Imran Khan warned.
Khan further said there was "no question" of returning to the National Assembly as that would "mean accepting the conspiracy" that had removed his government.
Why is Imran Khan protesting?
Khan was removed from office in April through a no-confidence vote but he refused to accept the outcome and blamed the US was involved in toppling his government.
The PTI chairman has been protesting ever since and calling for fresh elections because, in his words, the incumbent coalition government led by Shehbaz Sharif of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party was “imported” and not a true representative of the Pakistani people.
Khan led his thousands of PTI supporters to Islamabad last Wednesday in a protest and had planned to stage a sit-in until new elections were announced but abruptly called off the sit-in at the last minute after making it to the capital.
However, he had threatened to return after six days if the government failed to give a date for snap polls in the country.
(With inputs from PTI)
