Imran Khan says Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif involved in plot to kill him

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday said he was hit by four bullets on his right leg during the assassination attempt by two shooters a day earlier when he was leading a political march in Punjab provinceAddressing the nation from the Shaukat Khanum Hospital here in his first address since the assassination attempt Khan said that he was aware of the plot to kill himIll come to the details of the attack later I got to know the day before the attack that either in Wazirabad of Gujrat they planned to kill me the 70yearold chief of the Pakistan TehreekeInsaf party claimedI was hit by 4 bullets Khan whose right leg was plastered saidDr Faisal Sultan who is treating the cricketerturnedpolitician said Xrays of Khans right leg showed that his tibia was damaged and in fact fracturedIn this scan the line you see on right leg is the main artery The bullet fragments were very near it Sultan saidKhan suffered a bullet injury on the right leg when two gunmen man fired a volley of bullets at him and others mounting on a containermounted truck in the Wazirabad area of Punjab province where he was leading a protest march against the Shehbaz Sharif governmentHe described the attack on his life and said he was on the container when a burst of bullets was directed at him causing him to get shot in the leg and fall downThen a second burst comes there were two people he said narrating the incidentHe said that if the two bullet sprays had been synchronised he would not have survivedAlso Read Pakistan Imran Khan vows to continue protest march after attack on himBecause I fell down I think he the shooter thought I had died and fled he saidKhan noted that one suspect claiming to be an extremist had been arrestedHe is not an extremist There was a plan behind the attempt and we will uncover it he saidThe former premier said that three others separate from the ones who he had named in a tape stashed abroad had plotted to kill himHow did I find out Insiders told me The day before Wazirabad they made the plan to kill me as they saw the number of people increasing using the script of religious extremism he saidHe said Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Major General Faisal plotted to kill himKhan has alleged that the government and its handlers had planned to get him murdered in the same way as former Punjab governor Salman Taseer was killedFirstly they accused me of blasphemy they made tapes and released them and PMLN projected it I knew who was doing itThis the attempted assassination happened exactly according to the script he saidKhan who was ousted from power in April after losing a noconfidence vote in his leadership has talked about a threat letter from the US and claimed that it was part of a foreign conspiracy to remove him as he was not acceptable for following an independent foreign policy The US has bluntly rejected the allegationsHe has been demanding early elections and he is leading the long march towards Islamabad to force his demands The term of the National Assembly will end in August 2023 and fresh elections should be held within 60 daysThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever