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Hundreds of supporters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan took to the streets across the country on Sunday (March 10) to protest against alleged rigging of the February 8 elections.

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00:00 Hundreds of supporters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan took to the streets
00:08 across the country on Sunday to protest against alleged rigging of the February 8 elections.
00:15 Voters in Pakistan went to the polls in February in a vote marred by a mobile internet shutdown
00:20 on election day, arrests and violence in its build-up and unusually delayed results, leading
00:26 to accusations that the vote was rigged.
00:30 Khan-backed candidates won 93 seats but did not have the numbers to form a government.
00:35 He and his party rejected the results of the elections, alleging widespread rigging.
00:42 Khan was ousted in 2022 after falling out with the country's powerful military, which
00:48 denies meddling in politics.
00:50 His Pakistan Tariq-e-Insaf party won the 2018 national election.
00:56 Multiple legal cases were brought against Khan, which disqualified him as a candidate
01:01 and sentenced him to long prison terms.
01:04 He denies wrongdoing.
01:05 For more information visit www.fema.org/news/pk-pk.

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