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Publish: 06 Nov 2022, 07:57 pm
Ex-Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was treated at the hospital after being shot in the legs in a failed assassination attempt || Photo: Collected
Former Pakistan Prime Minister
Imran Khan left the hospital on Sunday, a senior aide said, three days after being
shot in the legs in a failed assassination attempt.
The shooting -- and Khan's
accusation that his successor Shehbaz Sharif was involved -- have significantly
raised the political temperature in a country that has been on the boil since
he was ousted in April.
Former Information Minister Fawad
Chaudhry told AFP that Khan "has been discharged" and a local TV
channel showed him wearing a blue hospital gown as he left the Lahore clinic by
wheelchair.
Khan, 70, was wounded by gunfire
aimed at his open-top container truck as he led a political party convoy
through thick crowds in the eastern city of Wazirabad on Thursday.
One man is in custody following
the attack, which government officials have said was the work of a lone gunman
and "a very clear case of religious extremism".
In an apparent confession video
leaked by police to the media, the sole suspect said he tried to kill Khan because
his convoy was interrupting the call to prayer, which summons Muslims to
mosques.
Khan, however, insists two shooters were involved,
and speaking to reporters from the hospital on Friday claimed Sharif, Interior
Minister Rana Sanaullah, and senior intelligence officials were behind the
plot.
The government and military have
dismissed those claims as lies and fabrications and threatened to sue Khan for
defamation.
Khan, a former cricketing
superstar, became prime minister in 2018 on a ticket promising to block the
dynastic families that have historically ruled Pakistan and to end corrosive
corruption.
He was ousted by a vote of no confidence in April
as the economy languished and he lost the backing of the all-powerful military,
considered the kingmakers in the south Asian nation.
Since then Khan has campaigned
for a snap election, with a series of raucous marches and rallies, while
claiming he was pushed out of power in a conspiracy orchestrated by the United
States.
Analysts say the assassination
attempt and Khan's accusations have pushed Pakistan into a "dangerous
phase".
"It is a perilous
situation," said academic and political analyst Tauseef Ahmed Khan, who is
also a board member of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.
"Not only for the democratic
process but also for the country."_AFP
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