Hundreds of protesters have begun to flee Islamabad since Pakistan’s safety forces started a crackdown on unrest early Wednesday morning.
An operation cleared protesters from a sq. close to Pakistan’s parliament, the place activists from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, the political celebration of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, had deliberate to stage a sit-in till he was free of jail.
The unrest has resulted in at the very least 9 deaths, whereas greater than 400 PTI members had been arrested, officers mentioned.
Mohsin Naqvi, Pakistan’s inside minister, mentioned protest leaders, together with Ali Amin Gandapur, chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, and Khan’s spouse Bushra Bibi, had escaped.