Supporters of Pakistan's Imran Khan abort protest, his party says

Media report hundreds of arrests in sweeping midnight raid

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Security forces were mobilized on the streets of Islamabad after supporters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan's Tehreek-e-Insaf party stormed the capital to demand his release on Nov. 27.   © Reuters

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -- The party of Pakistan's jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan suspended street protests seeking his release, it said on Wednesday, following media reports of hundreds of arrests by security forces in a sweeping midnight raid in the capital.

The sit-in had been called off, Zulfikar Bukhari, a spokesman for Khan's party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), confirmed, citing what he called "the massacre".

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