Massive protests in Pakistan indicate Imran Khan going back to the streets
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Lahore: In the dead of the night on Saturday Prime Minister Imran Khan lost the no-trust vote.
Most Pakistanis woke up to the truth in the wee hours of Sunday, many obviously were sad.
His supporters flowed out in their thousands on the streets of many cities on Sunday
This was all the more so in Lahore where a sea of humans thronged, raising slogans, according to India today.
They furiously called out the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), which is a group of Opposition parties that ousted Imran Khan from power.
Members of Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) flooded cities including Islamabad, Karachi, Peshawar, Malakand, Multan Khanewal, Khyber, Jhang and Quetta.
Hours after ouster, Imran Khan tweeted about beginning a "freedom struggle" against a "foreign conspiracy of regime change"
Imran Khan became the first prime minster to bow out from power following a no-trust motion.
174 members of 342 strong National Assembly voted against the government on April 10.
Shorn off powers, Imran Khan has to work his way up from the grassroots again.
The mass rallies on the streets on Sunday signal at his whopping support base across the nation.
However he is still harping on the US conspiracy, which is not borne out by any evidence.
Imran Khan says that he has stood up to a corrupt team of leaders and parties, who are inclined towards keeping Pakistan in a dependent foreign policy, IANS reported.
They according to him compromised the nation's sovereignty to western powers, which he refused to succumb to.
He repeatedly called for an independent foreign policy, standing against the western demands.
Though an outlier in the Pakistan's messy politics, Imran Khan practices the rules of the game better than most of his detractors.
The former cricketer will definitely go back to streets whipping up protests against the government in the coming days.
He plans anti-government protests with a nationwide campaign to put pressure on the government.
An astute politician of the first water, Imran Khan is said to be good at leading protests and rallies.
He pulls crowds to rallies, indicating the massive support he enjoys among youths—thanks to his charisma from cricketing days
He staged a 126 days long sit-in just outside the parliament in Islamabad against Nawaz Sharif's rule, pressuring the government, according to IANS.
