Digital Desk: The former prime
minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, said on Friday that he was shot four times in
the legs while perched atop a container on Thursday during a long march in
Wazirabad.
Khan claimed to have been informed
of the impending risk beforehand.
While still a patient at the
Shaukat Khanum Hospital in Lahore, where he is receiving medical attention for
his wounds, Khan remarked during a televised address, "I had already
discovered that there was a plan in place to assassinate me somewhere between
Wazirabad and Gujrat."
The cricketer-turned-politician is
being treated by Dr. Faisal Sultan, who said that an x-ray of Khan's right leg
revealed that his tibia was injured and in fact fractured.
"The main artery is represented
by the line on the right leg of this scan. There were bullet pieces extremely
close by "said Sultan.
Khan, who was spearheading a protest
march against the Shehbaz Sharif administration, was shot in the right leg as
he and others ascended on a truck with a container. The incident occurred in
the Wazirabad neighborhood of Punjab province.
Khan's right leg was lifted and
bandaged as he sat in a wheelchair. He made numerous accusations against the
military and political leaders.
Police used tear gas to disperse protesters in Rawalpindi, Lahore, and Karachi after they blocked highways
shortly after Khan was shot at. Police were seen taking some of the protesters
into cars in television footage.
Following a summons from the political
party, Khan's followers demonstrated and attempted to break into the governor's
residence in Lahore.
Ankur Shukla of Bloomberg Economics said that anger at what many see as an assassination attempt is likely to increase support for the former prime minister and cause instability that will make leading the debt-ridden nation, which has already been hit by floods, even more challenging.
It might now be practically difficult for the ruling party to enact controversial tax increases and budget cuts demanded by the International Monetary Fund for a bailout.
Khan is allegedly using the shooting incident for political purposes, according to defence minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif.
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