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the tried all the way to disqualify the ah, i melissa chan, thanks for joining us. we have a special edition of the w news asia today, and a few moments will be speaking with pakistan's, former prime minister in ron con. last week he was shot and injured during a protest march to demand fresh elections after being ousted from office in april. he was hurt in the leg, but has since left the hospital 9 other people were also wounded and one died. police say the perpetrator was a lone gunman and an unverified video started circulating online. keep in mind there's a lot of disinformation and misinformation out there, but the video showed a man handcuffed at a police station who said, quote,

i did it because con was misleading the public. i tried to kill him. i tried my best and quote, con has accused prime minister chabarise sharif in 2 other senior officials of being behind the assassination attempt and has demanded an independent investigation. joining us, his former prime minister of pakistan in ron khan. thank you so much for joining d, w news, asia. and sir, of course i want to start by 1st asking how your healing from your injuries. and do you expect a full recovery? i really do but once and more high and one more should one of old she had been removed and now my bones cracked. so it needs a 4 to 6 weeks rest. i cant wait on it until it covers the boots for what i have been taken out of your flish rules. so on recovery hopefully. and

that's excellent too. now. now, you've accused the prime minister himself, along with the interior minister in the countries intelligence service of being behind this assassination attempt. and those are very serious accusations on what kind of proof have you been able to provide. and why are you saying this up? well, 1st of all, it be explained that the people what such and the most who would want to me to be eliminated as the govern government. because since the last 6 months by government has been out of office through a conspiracy, the boss is popularity is unprecedented. nobody is as big as that such public acceptability as buying. so we have one of the 37 by elections in the past

5 months. my partner has $129.00, so 75 percent of by like to be one and all of all we are sort of why far ahead. so they are and they know elections. they cannot complete. and so their motive was to get out of the way the try another way or disqualify me, but there are some cases on me or pressing up, barky general is jealous, pounded, who would write to portray our point of view. one is the best investigative journalist us, it was murdered in. ready that out of by just thought. so this was a plan to get out of the way. so going to very quickly what you've provided is contextual. there are certainly people who would benefit from harm me. you. so, but it is a little bit like sherlock holmes. it's deductive, you believe there's a plot based on a pattern of what critics have said,

a but what is the hard evidence? because what you've provided is circumstantial. i know these people would more because i knew about the lot. the brought started 2 months back. a day that decided to up but be off by saying a religious fanatic had the 2 months back. this started this campaign. it was the video was made by these it intelligence agency. it went on to the politicians on the state media where the consistent he started this campaign that i will send by committed blossom. ready and is really just such a bus will upset. so i then expose this on the 24th of september on the 7th of october in a public, a big riley saying exactly visit. this is the fraud and they will have be bumped up by

a religious but i think but then that i'd offended i committed loss of not. so you are worn down that follow you. you are warned about this. and so you believe that as a result of being warned, then it has to be the prime minister and the military apparatus behind us. and so when, if you knew about this, i want to ask about the security because when i look at the videos of you doing this long march, there doesn't seem to be a lot of security. did you just ignore the warnings or did you decide to just take extraordinary risks to your own life, but also to those who support you look, last 6 months. i have been in the public. i read 16 public rallies, you know, almost to record. and then the, this march of, so there was all was good to paris. so many of the rally before i was holding

a rally. they would say your life is a threat. does a tennis threat? this went on, was 6 months now i had the auctions. do i stay at home and stop the injustice that has happened to focused on where the wronged, the biggest quotesoft this country will looting the country for 30 years? the blank on us and weeks we expected to sit quite like a herd of sheep. i will be going to send out to them just to so i decided that whatever the risk i would go to the public. so there were always going to be a risk. but i know who was being threatened and i know who blotted it. and that's why i want an independent investigation. got it. now, and you are doing this march resuming it on. is part of your goal here to bring down the system. because if you're as popular as you say, and the bi election certainly suggests that why don't you wait until the next election? why are you trying to force this to happen and now can't you wait until next year?

you will still likely be as popular as you say next year. that's what you believe melissa, it's not about me being offered wouldn't elections. we would with the election, then sharla, whatever pointers. but the sun is going on. we are now nearing depart. my worry is that by the time use grimma nodes who, or who's been imposed on us by the time they go, the country might go to the point of no return. what we're seeing as i've gotten used stacked on economic indicators, i've gone down exports, economic growth, a good good. so growth, everything is heading down, reviews, falling our reserves going down. we are headed in to adopt. dunham, the only thing all the way out of this a free or fair elections. why? because when you're free inside elections, you will have a government for 5 years. that brings in political stability which doesn't exist

right? and there is no inability to value on the attorney. and this is melissa. it's not going to me, listen, this economy can only stabilize if you have political stability because only then the investors come and only then people have confidence in the system. when no one knows how long this government is for the last you are, the government doesn't know. the economy has done completely a mr. con, i want to express how your march has looked beyond pakistan's borders. i'm sitting here in berlin. you left off is falling a no confidence vote, and now you're marching on on the capital i choosing not to wait for the election. so to some, to some it doesn't look like a protest. it looks like an attempt to take back power. and that you're using populism to do so from the outside. our critics who say that this is reminiscent of the likes of shareable scenario in brazil. donald trump,

the u. s. right. you go to tear kate in the philippines or, or about marcos junior. now in the philippines, would it be fair to include you in that bunch? there was a wide number one watching to the capital was called a marsh. there were 3 long marches against it when i was the prime minister. we didn't stop them. we didn't get such and my democracy because the public got just a part of democracy. my right. so 1st the it is within the constitution. it is when you feel that there is something wrong going on as a democrat. it is your right to profess like you good germany in all over europe. secondly, my government was removed, not some cost. you shall own legal way. they paid a $1000000.00 off. black money was spent 2 by 20 by

members of parliament. it was straightforward. something illegal. i mean, if you it was an election, it was auction. they were, they were buying, i mean, it was not hidden. the home currency knows the going rate. well this was the spend on my members of parliament, so that is unconstitutional. so it was my right to press it. secondly, the people who have come on imposed on us 61 percent of them on bill 60 percent of the cabinet is on based on production. and what they've done while the gone is gone though they have given them to the immunity caption. this doesn't happen in a democracy, so you're talking about corruption, but i go back to the fact that you were in power. what would you have done differently if you're talking about so many people who are corrupt? do you have any regrets from your leadership, your prior leadership, in terms of not being able to tamp down corruption the way that you're talking

about right now? well, melissa, one regret i came in with the majority of coalition government week up. and what i did, what i could not do was impose rule of law. good option is this isn't a symptoms when you do not have rule. rule of law means when you have all 4 books, what above all, which is what has happened. all these people who've been blundering these ruling and it will be stealing money for 30 years with massive cups is coming to the parliament. we've got it. so what i could not do is that the accountability bureau was not controlled by me. it was controlled by the stablish, but i, so i did not have the power to bring the big cooks under the rule of law, and i could not hold them accountable. and so i, so you're in effect. i mean, the reason why developing world is,

is because the ruling elites of law and i couldn't succeed in bringing them under the rule of all miss shamrock con, we've run out of time. thank you so much for joining us. that's all for today. be sure to check out our website, that's t w dot com, forward slash asia. i'm melissa chance. thanks for watching. goodbye with making the headlights and what's behind them. d. w. news, africa. the show that faculty issues have been the continent. life is slowly getting back to normally where on the street to give you enough reports on the

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