{"id":15589,"date":"2022-11-04T18:59:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T18:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/11\/04\/imran-khan-speaks-publicly-for-first-time-since-surviving-shooting\/"},"modified":"2022-11-04T18:59:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T18:59:39","slug":"imran-khan-speaks-publicly-for-first-time-since-surviving-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=15589","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan speaks publicly for first time since surviving shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Pakistan&#8217;s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has made his first public address since he was shot during a protest march in the eastern city of Wazirabad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Sitting in a wheelchair at a hospital in Lahore, Mr Khan said he wouldn&#8217;t have survived the shooting if the two shooters he saw had &#8220;synchronised&#8221; their attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">&#8220;Because I fell, one of the shooters thought I had died, and left,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Last month, Pakistan&#8217;s election commission disqualified Mr Khan from holding public office, in a case described by the former star cricketer as politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">In a video confession released by police, one man accused of shooting him said the former cricketer was &#8220;misguiding&#8221; the people, and that he &#8220;wanted to kill him&#8221; for doing so. The conditions under which the confession was carried out are unclear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-63509295\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Imran Khan: Shock at attack on Pakistan ex-PM<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-63520110?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Pakistan&#8217;s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has made his first public address since he was shot during a protest march in the eastern city of Wazirabad. Sitting in a &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}