Pakistan: Imran Khan discharged from hospital, anti govt march to resume Tuesday

Imran Khan on Sunday announced that his party will resume the march to Islamabad from the same spot where he survived an assassination attempt but sustained bullet injuries during a rally in Punjab province saying he prefers death instead of living the life of a slaveThe 70yearold former prime minister and Chairman of the Pakistan TehreekeInsaf PTI party who underwent surgery for bullet injuries on Thursday was addressing a press conference from the Shaukat Khanum Hospital owned by his charitable organisationWe 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 said before he was discharged from hospital He later reached his Zaman Park residence hereKhan suffered bullet injuries in the right leg when two gunmen fired a volley of bullets at him and others mounting on a containermounted truck in the Wazirabad area where he was leading the marchPTI worker Moazzam Gondal died due to bullet injuries during the attack on Khan The rally was suspended after the attackI will address the Haqeeqi Azadi real freedom march from here in Lahore and our march within the next 10 to 14 days depending on the speed will reach Rawalpindi Khan saidThe PTI chief said once the march reaches Rawalpindi he would then join it and lead it himselfIn a veiled reference to the powerful military establishment Khan said They military establishment want to instill fear among us But let me tell youwe will not budge from our stance and are ready to sacrifice our lives for real freedom I prefer death instead of living the life of a slaveA day after the attack on him Khan alleged that three people Prime Minister Shehbaz Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah and Major General Faisal Naseer were behind the botched assassination attempt on his lifeThe Army has rejected Khans allegations as baseless and irresponsibleAlso Read Pakistan Former PM Imran Khan injured in firing at rallyQuestioning whether some people are above the law the PTI chairman said I am facing problems in getting an FIR registered on the firing incident on my container No Punjab police officer is ready to register an FIR on my complaint If I being a former prime minister of Pakistan cannot get a case registered related to the attack on me then think what will happen to the common manI want a transparent investigation into the matter There was a pattern in the attack on me First they labelled me a blasphemer and then tried to eliminate me like that of slain Punjab governor Salman TaseerThe confessional statement of the suspect was recorded and released to the media to cover up the crime Inspector General Police of Punjab lied that the video record of the suspect was hacked In fact they police officers are afraid to register FIR as they have orders from them military establishment Khan allegedPrime Minister Shehbaz in a press conference in Lahore on Saturday said that Khans party PTI is in power in the Punjab province and the provincial government should tell why the FIR of the assassination attempt has not been registered so farKhan also demanded constitution of a judicial commission to investigate the attack on him the murder of senior journalist Arshad Sharif the torture and circulation of obscene video of PTI Senator Azam Swati and the cypher controversy about toppling of the PTI government at the behest of the United StatesI wonder if an ISI officer is involved in such dirty acts no action is taken against him I am surprised at the Director General Major General Babar Iftikhar of InterServices Public Relations ISPRs statement that the institution is standing with its officers including the one involved in the attack on meI want to ask him whether there is no black sheep in any institution Khan said and questioned the DG ISPR to tell why court martial is needed if army officers do not commit any wrongHe also urged the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take notice of all the issues he has raised as the nation is looking up to him for justiceFollowing the assassination attempt on Khan Punjab Inspector General of Police Faisal Shahkar has resigned saying that it was not possible for him to continue on my current assignments due to personal reasonsMeanwhile the chief of the Pakistan Democratic Movement PDM party Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Sunday cast doubts on the attack on Khan in a press conference calling it an actHe questioned the confusion Khans injuries that whether he got a single shot or more than two and on one leg or both He also argued that Khan surprisingly went to Lahore instead of a nearby hospitalKhan who was ousted as prime minister in April this year after a noconfidence motion was passed in the National Assembly is seeking fresh general elections in Pakistan However the federal government led by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is opposed to holding elections now The term of the current National Assembly will end in August 2023This story has been sourced from a third party 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