'I knew there was a plot to kill me': Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan addresses nation after attack

In his first live address from a hospital in Lahore, where he has been receiving medical treatment following an assassination attempt, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan on Friday said that he was aware of a plot to kill him.

"I'll come to the details about the attack later. I got to know the day before that either in Wazirabad of Gujrat, they planned to kill me," Khan said as he commenced his speech that was broadcast on PTI's official YouTube channel.

Khan said two shooters had tried to kill him during the protest march he was leading to the capital Islamabad. They killed one person and injured 11 others in the attack.

"Four people had made the plan to kill me," Khan said.

"They had plotted to assassinate me on pretext of false blasphemy charges. I knew who was doing it. I had made a video and if anything had happened to me I would release the video," he added.

Khan was recovering in hospital after the assassination attempt that left him with a gunshot wound to the leg. "Allah saved my life. The bullet had hit an artery in my leg. I would have died in 20 minutes."

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