Imran Khan remembers India match as he likens Pakistan disaster to 1971 | World News

Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan on Friday drew parallels from 1970 when Sheikh Mujibur Rahman-led Awami League wasn't allowed to type the federal government regardless of profitable the bulk in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) within the common elections.

“What occurred in East Pakistan? The most important get together gained, however they weren't given the correct. As a substitute, we took motion in opposition to them,” mentioned Khan drawing parallels between the 1971 liberation battle and 2022 in Pakistan.

“On the age of 18, I went to play an exhibition cricket match in Bangladesh. We gained two matches in opposition to India. What stunned me was that each Bangladeshi in and out of doors the stadium chanted ‘Pakistan Zindabad’. That day, I realised the separation of Bangladesh from Pakistan is the most important tragedy,” Khan mentioned in his first public remarks because the assassination try on him on Thursday.

Khan was shot within the leg as he waved to crowds from a container mounted on a truck from the place he was main a protest march on the capital to press for early elections and calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.

In erstwhile East Pakistan, an enormous majority of the Bengali nation had favoured the Awami League, underneath Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, within the 1970 Pakistani common elections. The get together had emerged as the biggest get together within the nation, gaining the unique mandate of Pakistan in phrases each of seats and votes.

The Pakistan Peoples Get together didn't win any seats in East Pakistan. The Awami League's failure to win any seats in then west Pakistan was utilized by Zulfikar Bhutto who argued that Mujibur had acquired "no mandate or help from West Pakistan". The then leaders of Pakistan, all from West Pakistan and PPP, strongly opposed the concept of an East Pakistani-led authorities.

In the meantime, Khan mentioned on Friday that he would resume his protest march to Islamabad after recovering at the same time as his supporters staged nationwide protests that blocked main roads.

He mentioned two shooters had tried to assassinate him, in a rustic with a historical past of politically motivated violence. He mentioned one individual was killed and 11 others had been injured in Thursday's assault in Wazirabad, about 170 km (106 miles) southeast of Islamabad.

Khan additionally mentioned the failed assassination try in opposition to him will push the individuals of Pakistan to take to the streets like in Sri Lanka.

“Both we could have a peaceable revolution or a bloody one,” the previous prime minister mentioned, including, “Individuals will take to the streets like Sri Lanka. There will probably be chaos.”