Imran Khan, former Pakistani high minister, on Friday claimed that four pellets hit his legs during an assassination attempt while he was standing atop a vessel during his long march in Wazirabad on Thursday.
Khan said he’d learned about the brewing peril beforehand. I had formerly learned that there was a plan in place to kill me nearly between Wazirabad and Gujrat,” Khan said as he spoke during a televised address while still being admitted at the Shaukat Khanum Hospital in Lahore where he’s entering treatment for his injuries.
#WATCH | Former Pakistan PM #ImranKhan says he was hit by four bullets, in his first address to the nation after the firing during his rally in Wazirabad, Pakistan yesterday.
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Four people colluded to kill me. I made a videotape and named those people and have stockpiled it abroad,” he said, adding that it would be released in case commodity untoward happens to him.
Dr Faisal Sultan, who’s treating the cricketer- turned- politician, saidx-rays of Khan’s right leg showed that his tibia was damaged and in fact fractured.In this checkup, the line you see on the right leg is the main roadway. The pellet fractions were veritably near it,” Sultan said.
Khan suffered a pellet injury on the right leg when a gun- applying man fired a blitz of pellets at him and others mounting on a vessel- mounted truck in the Wazirabad area of Punjab fiefdom, where he was leading a kick march against the Shehbaz Sharif government.
Khan was seated in a wheelchair with his right leg elevated and swathed. He repeated several allegations against the government and the military leadership.
Soon after Khan was shot at, police fired teargas on protesters to disperse crowds in Rawalpindi, Lahore and Karachi after they blocked roads. television footage showed police dragging some of the demonstrators into vehicles.
Khan’s sympathizers who came out to protest after a call by the political party also tried to enter the governor’s house in Lahore.
Outrage at what looks to numerous as an assassination attempt is likely to intoxicate support for the former high minister- and may stir uneasiness that makes governing indeed more delicate in the debt- ridden country, which has also been devastated by cataracts, Bloomberg Economics ’ Ankur Shukla said.The ruling party may now find it nearly insolvable to apply unpopular duty hikes and budget cuts needed by the International Monetary Fund for a bailout.
Defence minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif said the firing incident is being used by Khan toachieve political earnings.videotape clips of Khan sympathizers protesting near a military commander’s house in Peshawar and vandalising a military tank have surfaced on social media.
Khan has named Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, interior minister Rana Sanuallah and major general Faisal Naseer, a director general of importantInter-Service Intelligence, as among those responsible for the attack, elderly PTI leader Asad Umar said in a videotape communication after meeting the former justicestar.The “ assassination attempt on Imran Khan is an attack on Pakistan, ” tweet.
