Nov. 6 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Pakistani opposition leader Imran Jan has announced that the “long march” on Islamabad will resume next Tuesday from the same point where he was shot last Thursday, in Wazirabad.
“We have decided that the march will resume on Tuesday from the same place in Wazirabad where I and eleven other people were shot and where (Shahim) Moazzam died,” Jan announced at a press conference from the Lahore hospital where He is still hospitalized after being shot four times in both legs, reports the Pakistani newspaper ‘Dawn’.
“I will lead the march from here and in 10 to 14 days, depending on the speed, we will reach Rawalpindi”, Islamabad’s twin city, he explained. It is at this point that Jan will join the “long march” to lead it.
Jan accused the government and an army general of being involved in the assassination attempt. The Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, has requested this Saturday the creation of a judicial commission of investigation.
Jan has expressed his satisfaction with the creation of this commission, although he has warned that “a fair and impartial investigation is impossible” and has stressed that his criticisms and accusations against specific people do not imply a criticism of the Army as an institution.
“I am surprised that the press office of the IS secret services responded by saying that Imran Jan has affected the entire Army by accusing an officer,” he said.
Jan has assured that he has been the victim of a conspiracy by the Government and the Army Intelligence services, groups with which he has been at odds since the motion of censure that removed him from power in April this year.
The assassination attempt occurred during the “long march” on the capital, Islamabad, in which thousands of supporters protest the disqualification of Jan for alleged corrupt practices. These types of marches on Islamabad are already a traditional political tool in Pakistan in which the opposition forces a change of government through massive mobilizations.
