Imran Khan announces march on Pakistan capital for early elections

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan announced Tuesday that he would begin a protest march with his supporters from the eastern city of Lahore to Pakistan’s capital Islamabad on Friday to call for early elections.

Smaller protests by Khan’s supporters took place last week after Pakistan’s top election tribunal found Khan guilty of unlawfully selling gifts from foreign dignitaries and heads of state, removing him from his parliamentary seat.

« I have decided to launch the long march from Friday at 11.00 a.m. from Liberty Square in Lahore to Islamabad, » Khan said…