New Delhi: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was shot at during a political rally in Wazirabad last week, said his long march towards Islamabad will resume on Tuesday from the same point in the city where he was attacked.
“We have decided that our march will resume on Tuesday from the same [point] in Wazirabad where I and 11 others were shot, and where Moazzam was martyred,” Khan was quoted as saying by Dawn.
“I will address the march from here (in Lahore), and our march, within the next 10 to 14 days, depending on the speed, will reach Rawalpindi,” he said.
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief further said that once the march reaches Rawalpindi, he would join it and lead it himself.
Notably, Imran Khan was shot during his march in Wazirabad on Thursday, where he sustained bullet injuries in his legs. He was shifted to a hospital for treatment.
A day after the alleged assassination bid, he said he knew beforehand that assassination was being planned against him.
“A day before going to the rally, I knew that assassination was being planned against me either in Wazirabad or Gujrat,” Khan said in his first address since the attack.
Earlier on Friday, the former Pakistan PM warned the country’s establishment that political change is inevitable, whether through peaceful means or through chaos, similar to what was witnessed in the Iranian revolution of the 1970s and large-scale protests in Sri Lanka.
The 70-year-old cricketer-turned-politician was ousted from power in April by a vote of confidence. He said his government would have never lost the no-trust move.
Meanwhile, a day after PTI chief Imran Khan made several allegations against the ruling government, the top Pakistan media watchdog on Saturday imposed a ban on all TV channels from broadcasting and rebroadcasting his speeches and press conferences.
However, the ban was later lifted, as per reports.