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magic corner check hot spot for food, and some great cultural memorials to boot d w travel off we go here watching d w news asia coming up today, former prime minister of pakistan. and ron khan is on the offensive after the attempt on his life last week. he accused this the current prime minister and the military for being behind the attack sector. they don't elections, they cannot compete. and so damn water was to get out of where the tried all the way to disqualify. ah,

ah, i'm melissa chan. thanks for joining us. we have a special edition of the w news asia to day. and a few moments will be speaking with pakistan's, former prime minister in ron con. last week he was shot an 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 about 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 shabazz sharif in to 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 do, but once a month i had one more should one of all she had been removed. hello my boys cracked. so it needs a 4 to 6 weeks wrist. i can't wait on. it covers the bullets from what i've been sick and i'll, you'll thresholds so on recovery, hopefully info. we start. that's excellent to know. now, you've accused the prime minister himself, along with the interior minister in the country's intelligence service of being behind this assassination attempt. and those are

a very serious accusations. what kind of proof have you been able to provide and why are you saying this? well 1st of all, it be explained that the people who are touching the most who would want to me to be eliminated is that govern government. because since the last 6 sponsored by government has been out of office all through a conspiracy, the bodies popularity is unprecedented. no party is as big as that such public acceptability as bind. so we have one of the 37 by elections in the past 5 months. my party has 129, so 75 percent of by like the one and all of the olds. we are so why far ahead so they are tightened their lessons. they cannot complete. and so their

motive was to get you out of the way the try another way or disqualify me. but then in 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 out of by just thought. so this was a plan to get out of the way. so those are very quickly what you've provided is contextual. there are certainly people who would benefit from harming 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, but what is the hard evidence? because what you provided is circumstantial. i noticed the people would board because i knew about the lot. the brought started 2 months back. a day that decided to bump be off by say,

a religious fanatic had the 2 months back. this started this campaign. it was the video was made by these it intelligence agency and went on to the politicians on the state media where the consistency started. this campaign that i will send by committed blossom. ready and is really just sent the bus will upset. so i then expose this on the 24th of september on the 7th of october in a public, a big riley sag exactly visit. this is the fraud and they will have be bumped up by a religious but i think but sending that i'll send it. i committed loss of not. so you are worn down this all you were 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 eye. bell, 16 public rallies, you know, almost to record. and then the, this march of, so there was all was good to be risk. 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 groups of this country, who will losing the country for 30 years. the blank on us and weeks we expected to sit quite like a herd of she i will be going to send out with in just to. so i decided that whatever the risk i would go to the public. so there were always going to be at 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 what in elections we would with the election,

then sharla, whatever pointers, boston is going on. we are now nearing depart. my worry is that by the time use grammar nodes who or who 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 direct or they can amik 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 and fair 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 valley or a melissa, it's not going to me. listen, this. it got to me can only stabilize if you have political stability,

because only then the investors come in only then people have confidence in the system. when no one knows how long does it last you or 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? melissa. point number one. a lot to to the jeopardy. what is called

a moss. there were 3 long march against it. when i was the prime minister. we did stop them. we didn't get such and my democracy because the son public got just a bottle 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 protest like you do germany in all over europe. secondly, my government was removed, not some cost you sure legal way. they paid a $1000000.00 off. that 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 them and 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 process. 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 corruption. and what they've done while the god is going on, they have given them to the immunity subcultures. 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, the great i came in with the majority of coalition government we and what i did though, 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 a stealing money for 30 years. what massive cups of cases have come into 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 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, you know, i mean the reason why developing world is, is because the ruling elites of law and i couldn't succeed in reading then 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

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