Without offering evidence, Imran blames govt for plot to kill him.

LAHORE -- Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan Friday expressed his resolve to resume the long march as soon as he recovers from his leg injuries he received during a gun attack on his container on Thursday when the long march reached Wazirabad. 'I will again give a call for Islamabad when I get better', he said, without offering any evidence in support of his claims, in a televised address from the Shaukat Khanum Hospital where he is under treatment for his leg injuries. Sitting on a wheelchair, the former prime minister also asked his supporters to continue staging protests across the country till the resignation of three persons his party had nominated for their involvement in the firing incident. Imran said he had prior knowledge of the attack as he had already informed his supporters about it in his address at a public rally on September 24. 'I already knew about a plan to kill me somewhere between Wazirabad and Gujrat. They (the government) had plans to lay the blame on some religious fanatics as they did in the case of Salman Taseer [ex-Punjab governor]', he maintained, adding that the person who has been arrested is not a religious fanatic. Talking about Thursday's attack, Khan said that they had earlier projected that Imran Khan had committed religious blasphemy. He alleged that three people including Shehbaz Sharif, Rana Sana Ullah, and another high profile official had planned to kill him after they realised that the number of people in the long march was...

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