In a further reprieve, Imran Khan, the founder of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), and firebrand Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were cleared by a district and sessions court in Islamabad on Saturday in a case pertaining to violence and vandalism during the former ruling party’s May 25 “Azadi March.”
Following a resolution of no confidence in 2022 that toppled the PTI government, the former prime minister called for a march on the federal capital with demands for new elections and the dissolution of assemblies.
Despite the Supreme Court’s directive to perform a jalsa at a location between Islamabad’s H9 and G9 neighborhoods, Khan and his entourage entered the city and began moving towards the D-Chowk, throwing the law and order situation in the nation’s capital into disarray.
