Imran Khan urges followers to march on Islamabad without him

By MUNIR AHMED
Associated Press

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has urged his followers to resume their protest march on the country’s capital to demand early elections — even though he is staying out of the march, for now. Khan spoke in a video-link to his supporters on Thursday, a week after he was wounded in the leg when a gunman opened fire on the protest convoy he was leading, killing one of his supporters and wounding 13 people, including two lawmakers. After the attack, Khan suspended the march, pending surgery and his recovery, though his supporters blocked roads in urban areas across Pakistan in the days after the attack, often clashing with police.