INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Pakistan&s former Prime Minister Imran Khan was in a stable condition on Friday after being shot and wounded during a protest march the day
before, a senior leader from his party said.Khan spoke to reporters late on Friday & his first public remarks since the shooting & and
pledged that he will resume his protest once he has recovered from the bullet wound, AP reported.The bullet hit him in the right leg, above
the ankle.Khan&s protest march and rallies, which started last Friday, were peaceful until Thursday&s attack in Wazirabad, a district in
eastern Punjab province.Sitting in a wheelchair, his right leg bandaged and elevated on a stool, Khan spoke from the Shaukat Khanum
hospital, where he had surgery on Thursday night.(The protest) will have to wait until I am little bit more mobile but our protest will
continue,& he told reporters.Khan accused Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan and army Gen
Faisal Naseer working for the Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency of orchestrating the shooting.Khan offered no evidence for his
allegations, which were rejected by Sharif&s government and dismissed as a &pack of lies& by Information Minister Maryam Aurangzeb.The spy
agency said there was absolutely no truth to Khan&s allegations.The government says it has ordered a high-level probe.The shooter, who was
arrested at the scene of the attack, was still being questioned Friday, police said.On Thursday, local police officials released a video
showing the man who says in the footage that he carried out the shooting and acted alone.Khan, a former cricket star-turned-politician, was
traveling in a large protest convoy of trucks and cars toward Islamabad when the attack happened.Video footage from Thursday shows him and
his team ducking for cover on top of a vehicle as gunfire rings out.The post Imran Khan to resume his protest when he is ‘more mobile&
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