Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Jan has claimed Friday that he was aware of the plot to end his life that nearly came to fruition Thursday when he was shot by an individual during a stopover in the city of Wazirabad during his long protest march to the capital Islamabad.
«I will comment later on the details of the attack but the day before I heard that they were going to kill me between Wazirabad and Gujarat,» said Jan during his first public appearance after the attempted attack, which he made from the Shaukat Janum hospital in Lahore, in a wheelchair, patient gown and with his right leg in plaster, according to local media.
The personal physician of the party of the former prime minister Pakistan Tehrik e Insaf (Movement for Justice or PTI), Dr. Faisal Sultan, confirmed shortly before the press conference that Jan was hit by at least four shots. Sultan also showed an X-ray of the former prime minister’s leg showing fragments of the projectiles, which broke his tibia and ended up dangerously close to an artery.
Thousands of supporters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Jan are staging violent clashes with police across the country on Friday following the assassination attempt on the PTI leader last Thursday.
The party has confirmed the beginning of protest marches in the main cities of the country, starting with Islamabad and continuing with Karachi, Lahore, Quetta, Peshawar, Malakand, Rajanpur, Bahawalnagar, Muzaffargarh and Kohat, among others, which have degenerated into clashes of varying intensity with the security forces.
