‘They tried to kill me’, Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan says, accuses current PM and opposition party of assassination attempt
- Khan was leading a protest march to Islamabad when he was shot in the leg en route; he is in hospital recovering from surgery
- The attack on his convoy, apparently by a lone gunman, killed one man and wounded at least 10
Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan on Friday accused the current premier Shehbaz Sharif, interior minister Rana Sanaullah and a senior army commander of plotting a botched assassination attempt that left him wounded.
“These three decided to kill me,” Khan told reporters in Lahore in his first public appearance since he was rushed to hospital after Thursday’s attack.
Khan was recovering in hospital after a gunman shot him in the leg, with his supporters vowing the assassination attempt will not derail his “long march” bid to return to power.
The attack on his convoy, apparently by a lone gunman, killed one man and wounded at least 10, significantly raising the stakes in a political crisis that has gripped the South Asian nation since Khan’s ousting in April.
Khan “was stable and he was doing fine” at Shaukat Khanum hospital in the eastern city of Lahore, his doctor Faisal Sultan said on Friday.
Seemi Bokhari, a lawmaker with Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, said after visiting Khan the former premier was in high spirits.