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Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan accused his successor on Friday of involvement in a plot to kill him as he recovered in hospital from gunshot wounds following an assassination attempt.

Khan told reporters that Shehbaz Sharif, who replaced him as premier following a vote of no confidence in April, was involved in a plot that included Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah and a senior army commander.

The attack on Khan's convoy killed one man and wounded at least 10, significantly raising the stakes in a political crisis that has gripped the South Asian nation since Khan's ousting in April. Earlier, scattered protests broke out around the country after Friday afternoon prayers, the most important of the week, with police deploying tear gas in several cities to control crowds.

He adds that he was angry with the noisy procession for interrupting the call to prayer that summons Muslims to the mosque five times a day."The allegations made by the accused in the video are very alarming and very terrifying," he said at a press conference.The accused, named by Punjab government officials as Naveed Ahmad, comes from a poor village near the rally site where Khan was shot.

He was voted into power in 2018 on an anti-corruption platform by an electorate tired of dynastic politics, but his mishandling of the economy - and falling out with a military accused of helping his rise - sealed his fate.

 

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That is a serious allegation. This one recklessly flaps his mouth, it seems.

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