Pakistani authorities have launched a crackdown on former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, detaining thousands of the popular opposition leader’s supporters and allegedly pressuring senior allies to quit the group.
Pakistan’s army and the government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif have responded fiercely to violent protests this month sparked by Khan’s arrest by an anti-corruption agency. At least 10 people have died in the protests and military buildings have been vandalised.
Khan, who is out on bail, claimed on Thursday that 10,000 PTI supporters were in jail. The government has estimated that the figure is lower.
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