Pakistan’s ex-PM Khan pauses protest march after shooting

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Published November 4, 2022 2:06 AM

By MUNIR AHMED and RIAZAT BUTT
Associated Press

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan says he is pausing his march on the capital, Islamabad, after being shot and wounded in the leg. Khan spoke to reporters late on Friday, a day after his wounding when a gunman opened fire on his campaign convoy. He says he will resume his protest once he has recovered from the bullet wound. It was Khan’s first public remarks since the shooting on Thursday. He has accused the country’s Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, the interior minister and an army general of orchestrating the attack. He did not offer any evidence. He’s claimed that Sharif and the United States orchestrated his ouster in Parliament, which both the government and Washington denied.

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