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BREAKING: Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan's home is surrounded by police, shelled with tear-gas and water canons

A Radical Reaction: Imran Khan Releases Video Calling for Nationwide Uprising

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Mar 14
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BREAKING: Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan's home is surrounded by police, shelled with tear-gas and water canons

Imran Khan Releases Video Calling for Nationwide Uprising

A Radical Reaction

Pakistani police have surrounded former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s home in an attempt to arrest him.

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Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper
JUST IN - Police with riot gear have reached Former Prime Minister Imran Khan's Zaman Park residence to arrest him from the city of Lahore in Pakistan, local media reports say
10:54 AM ∙ Mar 14, 2023
170Likes115Retweets

Radical Media members will be aware of the background here from our coverage back in May 2022. And as summarised in this Radical Dispatch from November 2022 after an unsuccessful assassination attempt on the former PM:

Last year, Imran Khan had claimed that the Biden administration ousted him from office due to his refusal to acquiesce to certain US foreign policy and economic interests.

Today, one assassination attempt later and as police surround his home, Khan has released a video from his home residence in which he calls upon the nation to rise up if anything happens to him:

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Imran Khan @ImranKhanPTI
My message to the nation to stand resolute and fight for Haqeeqi Azadi & rule of law.
12:27 PM ∙ Mar 14, 2023
111,786Likes56,909Retweets

Radical Media translation:

“In the name of Allah the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful, Him alone we worship and to Him alone we turn.

My fellow Pakistanis, the police are outside to take me to jail. They think that by putting Imran Khan in jail, the nation will go back to sleep. You need to prove them wrong. You need to prove that this nation is alive. This is the community of the chosen Muhammad (may peace and blessings be upon him). This is the nation that raises the slogan “There is no god but Allah”. You need to go outside and struggle for your rights and true freedom! Look, Allah has already given Imran Khan everything. I am fighting your war. I have spent my entire life fighting and I will continue to. But if something happens to me or I end up in jail, or they kill me, then you have to prove that even without Imran Khan this nation will struggle and will never accept the total slavery of these thieves and this one man who is running the nation. Long live Pakistan”

The former Prime Minister’s party PTI has called the regime fascist:

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PTI @PTIofficial
Residence of former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan is currently under attack by this fascist regime. #زمان_پارک_پہنچو
1:58 PM ∙ Mar 14, 2023
11,876Likes6,216Retweets
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Ihtisham Ul Haq @iihtishamm
Imran Khan is live on one of the International media outlet and showing them these expired shells used against his workers and fired at his residency, Zaman Park.
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3:02 PM ∙ Mar 14, 2023
12,296Likes4,525Retweets

Radical Media will update our readers as this story develops.

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