Will tell tomorrow when long march will reach Islamabad, says Imran.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan on Friday said he will announce the arrival date of the party's long march in Rawalpindi tomorrow (Saturday) as the former premier addressed the march's participants via video link.

After suffering a bullet wound to the leg in an attempted assassination bid, the former premier said he will rejoin the party's 'Haqeeqi Azadi' march once it enters the garrison city of Rawalpindi.

The party chief said he will be consulting his doctors tomorrow, adding that he will set a date for the long march's arrival in Islamabad accordingly.

Taking a dig at rival party supremo Nawaz Sharif, Imran Khan questioned how a person like him could be permitted to decide when the election will be held and who the next chief of army staff should be.

'The person whose children are sitting in Britain,' said Imran, 'how can he decide for Pakistan?'

'General Asif Nawaz's brother has written in his book that in 1992 when he [Nawaz] was prime minister, he tried to bribe the general with a BMW in Murree's Governor House,' he continued, 'which was rejected'.

'Why did he do that?' lambasted Imran, claiming that Nawaz wanted to "escape accountability" and that is why he wanted to appoint an army chief of his liking and attempted to bribe him.

"He [Nawaz] has no idea how to play with a neutral empire," said Imran.

Imran also predicted that Nawaz will ask the army chief to 'first of all try to get rid of me, because he [Nawaz] cannot compete with...

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