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Date | 14 August 2014 (126 days) | – 17 December 2014||
Location | Islamabad (Lahore to Benazir Bhutto International Airport, followed by marches in other cities) | ||
Caused by | Allegations of irregularities in the 2013 Pakistani election | ||
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Methods | Protests, marches, civil disobedience, sit-ins[1] | ||
Status | Cancelled due to the 2014 terrorist attack in Peshawar[2] | ||
Concessions | Removal of PTI restriction to general elections[3] | ||
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The 2014 Tsunami March (Urdu: سونامی مارچ, romanized: Sunāmī Mārch), also called the Azadi movement, was a protest march in Pakistan from 14 August to 17 December 2014. The march was organized by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) against the Pakistani government of Nawaz Sharif. PTI claimed systematic election-rigging in the 2013 general election, and PAT demanded justice for the culprits in the 2014 Lahore clash. Then PTI chairman Imran Khan had announced plans for an August march from Lahore to Islamabad with a group of protesters in a PTI jalsa (demonstration) in Bahawalpur on 27 June 2014.[10] On 17 December, a day after the 2014 Peshawar school massacre, Khan called off the protest.[11]