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PTI chief is being discharged after spending two weeks in hospital for broken bones.
Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan is to leave hospital on Wednesday, his party and medics said on Tuesday, two weeks after breaking bones in his back in a fall at an election rally.
The 60-year-old was ordered by doctors to remain immobile in a hospital bed with a fractured vertebrae and a broken rib after falling from a hoist raising him to the stage at a rally just days before the May 11 general elections.
Shireen Mazari, spokeswoman for Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, said the former cricket star was feeling better and had managed to walk in hospital. “Imran Khan will be discharged from hospital Wednesday,” Mazari said. “I have just talked to Imran Khan who told me that he will be going home tomorrow.”
Khwaja Nazir, spokesman for Lahore’s Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital, where Khan has been treated, confirmed that the PTI chief would be moving home on Wednesday. “He has already worn a brace around his back, which he will have to use for four to six weeks,” Nazir said.
Khan electrified much of the campaign with his calls for reform and galvanized many young people to take part for the first time. The elections were won by the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, but the PTI scored a major breakthrough, finishing in third place with 28 National Assembly seats, according to partial results.
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May God bless you Imran Khan. You have given a ray of hope to the youngsters of Pakistan. They may wait for another five years to clinch victory like 1992 Cricket World Cup. Till than let’s see what Sharif’s do with this down trodden country having parasites like militancy and killer mafias operating here with the support of other governments.