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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Asif Shahzad

Pakistan's Imran Khan relaunches political march after surviving gun attack

FILE PHOTO: Former Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan sits in a wheelchair after he was wounded following a shooting incident on a long march in Wazirabad, at the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre in Lahore, Pakistan November 4, 2022. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza

Pakistani former prime minister Imran Khan told supporters via video-link on Thursday they should keep up an anti-government march, a week after he suffered wounds in a gun attack, and he dismissed a police report that a lone shooter tried to kill him.

The 70-year-old former cricket hero was wounded last Thursday in the shooting at a rally, part of a rolling march that he has led to press for a general election, since he was ousted in a parliament vote in April.

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