LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: Sitting in a wheelchair with his legs bandaged, ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan, wounded in a gun attack on his protest convoy, said on Friday he blamed the assault on three officials: Pakistani PM Shehbaz Sharif, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah and ISI director-general for counter intelligence, Major General Faisal Naseer, promising to take to the streets again once he recovered.
Khan was holding a press talk at the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital in Lahore, a day after he was shot in the legs on Thursday as he waved to crowds from a truck-mounted container from which he was leading a protest march on the capital, Islamabad, to press for early elections and the resignation of PM Sharif.
“As soon as I am better, I will go out on the streets again, I will again give a call [for a protest march],” a defiant Khan said.
Speaking about what he called a plot to kill him, Khan said:
“Three people made the plan,” naming Sharif, Sanaullah and Nasser.
“I want to ask [army chief] General [Qamar Javed] Bajwa, will your honor rise or fall if you take action against people who inflict violence on people?”
“Hatred will grow,” Khan warned, if the three officials he had named were not held accountable.
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