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Supporters of Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan gather in Rawalpindi to see his first public appearance since being wounded in a gun attack earlier this month. Photograph: Akhtar Soomro/Reuters Supporters of Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan gather in Rawalpindi to see his first public appearance since being wounded in a gun attack earlier this month. Photograph: Akhtar Soomro/Reuters Imran Khan gave his address seated behind bulletproof glass, with his injured leg in a boot. Photograph: Anjum Naveed/AP “I’m more worried about the freedom of Pakistan than my life,” he told the crowd. “I will fight for this country until my last drop of blood.” Khan said on Saturday he was calling off his protest march to Islamabad because he feared it would cause havoc in the country. The protests were to culminate in a march to Islamabad which threatened to worsen political turmoil in the nuclear-armed country, which is also battling an economic crisis. “I have decided not to go to Islamabad because I know there will be havoc and the loss will be to the country,” Khan told a gathering of thousands of supporters in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, near the capital, Islamabad. Khan attracts cultish devotion from supporters but on Saturday made his speech hundreds of metres from the bulk of the crowd of around 25,000 to 30,000, separated by coils of barbed wire and a buffer of police officers. Mobile phone signals were jammed in the vicinity. Khan supporters arrived in th...

Imran Khan’s former allies announced the formation of a new political party, the latest setback for the embattled former premier as he clashes with Pakistan’s powerful army and the government. Jahangir Khan Tareen, one of Khan’s closest aides, will lead the Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party, he announced at a news conference on Thursday. More than a dozen top leaders of Khan’s party joined the new group.

Lahore: Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan claimed on Monday that the country's powerful military establishment has planned to keep him in jail for the next 10 years under sedition charges. In a series of tweets in the early hours of Monday, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief said: "So now the complete London plan is out. Using pretext of violence while I was inside the jail, they have assumed the role of judge, jury and executioner. The plan now is to humiliate me by putting Bushra begum (Khan's wife) in jail, and using some sedition law to keep me inside for next ten years." The tweets came after Khan held a meeting of PTI leaders at his Lahore residence. So now the complete London plan is out. Using pretext of violence while I was inside the jail, they have assumed the role of judge, jury and executioner. The Plan now is to humiliate me by putting Bushra begum in jail, and using some sedition law to keep me inside for next ten…— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) The 70-year-old leader, who has been on bail in more than 100 cases, further said: "To ensure that there is no public reaction, they have done two things -- first deliberate terror is unleashed not just on PTI workers but on common citizens as well. Second, the media is totally controlled and muzzled." He said never has the sanctity of chadar and chaar dewaari been violated the way it is being done by these "criminals". "This is a deliberate attempt to instill so much fear in people that when they come to arre...