Azadi March

Azadi march آزادی مارچ
Protest sight at Azadi Square.
Date	14 August 2014 (2014-08-14) – 17 December 2014 (2014-12-17) (4 Months, 4 Days) 126 Days
Location	Islamabad Started from Lahore to ISB and then marches in various cities.
Causes	Allegations of rigging in Pakistani general election, 2013
Goals	Dismissal of current government and resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Electoral reform Eliminating corruption Snap election
Methods	Protest, Protest march, Civil disobedience, Sit-in
Status	Cancelled due to the 2014 terrorist attack in Peshawar. Agreement reached on 22 March, in which Sharif will himself dissolve assemblies if systematic rigging is proved by three-member high-powered inquiry commission.
Concessions given	Prime Minister removes the reservation of PTI for the general elections.
Parties to the civil conflict
Sharif government Pakistan Peoples Party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Pakistan Awami Tehreek Awami Muslim League Pakistan Muslim League (Q) Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen
Lead figures
Nawaz Sharif (PML-N) Shahbaz Sharif (PML-N) Support Asif Ali Zardari (PPP) Mahmood Khan Achakzai (PkMAP) Fazal ur Rehman (JUI-F) Abdul Malik Baloch (NP) Imran Khan (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf) Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri (Pakistan Awami Tehreek) Support Shaikh Rasheed Ahmad (AML) Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain (PML-Q) Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi (PML-Q)
Number
100k - 1M+
Casualties
Death(s)	PTI: 2 in Islamabad (Combat) 8 in Multan (Non combat) PAT: 18 in Lahore (Combat) 5 in Islamabad (Combat)
Injuries	PTI: 13+ PAT: 100+
Arrested	PTI: 1500+ PAT: 1500+
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The Azadi march, also called the Tsunami march (Urdu: آزادی مارچ‎; lit. Freedom march) - not to be confused with Pakistan Ehtesab March - was a public protest march in Pakistan that lasted from 14 August 2014 to 17 December 2014. The march was organised by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party against Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif over claims of systematic rigging by PML-N in the 2013 general election. Party leader Imran Khan announced plans for a protest march travelling from Lahore to Islamabad in August with a throng of protesters in a PTI jalsa (lit. demonstration) and then in Bahawalpur on 27 June 2014.

Khan had initially named this planned protest march "Tsunami march" but later changed the name to "Azadi march" (or the "Freedom march") since its slated start date coincided with Pakistan's 67th Independence Day on 14 August 2014. The PTI chief called this march the final phase and the defining moment in his party's movement against electoral rigging in 2013 elections. He announced his plans to march with a million protesters to the nation's capital Islamabad to protest against prime minister Nawaz Sharif's illegitimate government. This prompted many analysts to name the protest "Million march". Khan assured the government that the protest march would be a peaceful protest culminating in a sit-in protest.