Pakistan’s government has launched a crackdown and arrested several protesters of former prime minister Imran Khan’s party that started a sit-in in Islamabad to demand his release from jail, according to the opposition political party.

Police sources said about 450 protestors were arrested in the crackdown and more arrests are expected while Khans Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) said it was a violent assault on protesters by security forces firing live rounds with the intent to kill as many people as possible.

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