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Imran Khan Supporters Protest Outside Pakistan High Commission in Canberra

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Supporters of Imran Khan demonstrated outside the Pakistan High Commission in Canberra on Thursday, May 11, a day after at least eight people were reported killed in protests in Pakistan.

Khan, a former prime minister, was arrested on Tuesday on corruption charges. He was remanded in custody for eight days at a hearing Wednesday, and indicted in relation to one of the cases against him, Geo News reported.

Supporters have been calling for his release. Credit: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Australia via Storyful

Video transcript

- [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

Thank you.

- Pakistan.

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- Pakistan.

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- Imran Khan.

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- Imran Khan.

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- Hello, everyone. I want to tell the friends from here. Probably they want to know why we've gathered here. So basically, [INAUDIBLE]. Imran Khan is our only hope [INAUDIBLE] giving us a hope towards new generations that they will get their basic human rights, which we are deprived off as I speak right now in Pakistan.

The girls, the old ladies, everyone's been illegally abducted from their homes. Your families don't know their whereabouts. Nobody knows where they're taken, how they're treated. And basically, this is the reason why we did it because the only hope is Imran Khan right now who promised them that we will give us our basic human rights.

And as is evident from the way he was illegally, unlawfully abducted in front of the whole world by the military in Pakistan. And if anyone says the word [INAUDIBLE], which is military, they are just being abducted. Their homes are broken into. And you know, nobody would know their whereabouts, ever.

So this is basically the reason that we are standing here, showing our solidarity with Imran Khan. And we want to request the authorities to take action. There is no reason he is not a fundamentalist. He's just a leader who's promised his nation. And he's giving them hope that their kids will have like an equal chance and equal opportunity, equal rights as of the elite in Pakistan.

But currently, the elite in Pakistan, they do not want this to happen. And that's the reason the higher officials in the military, in the public offices, they do not want to give us these rights. And that's why they have illegally abducted Imran Khan. And they just want to crush this voice and our hope. So this is the reason we are here. And I request that whoever can do--

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- Thank you very much.

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Thank you.

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Everyone, thank you for taking time and to come here for a good cause. And we start--

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We are here to register our protest against illegal abduction of Imran Khan, former prime minister of Pakistan and leader of the biggest, or the most popular political party, number one. And number two, we are here to register our protest against the violation of human rights in Pakistan.

We are here to register our protest against the delaying of the elections and the non-constitutional acts of the current government. We are here to register our protest.

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And we are here, more importantly, to register our protest and to support the democracy in Pakistan and to register our protest against all the non-constitutional acts of the current regime, which is the imported regime, really, and the most corrupt government in the history of Pakistan. The inflation has gone up approximately 37%.

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And for the first time in 75 years, Pakistan has to return the Haj [INAUDIBLE] down back to Saudi Arabia because people did not have money to pay for Haj. People don't have money to feed their kids. People don't have money to pay their kids' school fees.

People don't have money to put petrol in their cars. People don't have money to buy simple items. Everything has gone from 0 to 100 in just 18 months in Pakistan was then OK under Imran Khan regime.

Until this regime change, Pakistan has gone just nosedived in every way. So we are here to support a good cause. We are here to support Imran Khan. We are here to support democracy. We are here to support contributions. We are here to support human rights. Thank you, everyone, for coming.

- Thank you.

- Pakistan.

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- Pakistan.

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- Pakistan.

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- Imran Khan.

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- Imran Khan.

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- Imran Khan.

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- Thank you.

- Thank you very much.

[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

Thank you very much.

- Thank you very much.

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Nobody's following Constitution there. The Wahhabi criminals are [INAUDIBLE] or the mafia. We want to say these are mafias who are sitting there and leading the country

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I want to say one thing. Everybody here is equal and present as a leader in Pakistan community.

- Thank you.

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- Thank you very much.

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- Pakistan.

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- Pakistan.

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- Pakistan.

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- Pakistan.

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Pakistan.

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- Thank you very much.

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- Pakistan.

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- Pakistan.

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- Pakistan.

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Pakistan.

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- Pakistan.

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- Shame on you! Shame on you!

- Shame. Shame.

- Shame on you. Shame on you.

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Please make a phone call right now to GSQ.

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You just the media. We want a phone call for the GSQ right now.

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Regardless, we don't get scared.

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- We want the current government to hold the elections according to the constitution.

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