ISLAMABAD: A couple of weeks after getting injured in a firing incident, former prime minister Imran Khan said on Wednesday that his life still remains under threat, adding that those who wished to assassinate him “could try again.”

Leading a protest march to Islamabad on November 3, Khan received gunshot wounds in Wazirabad city after a gunman opened fire at his rally. The ex-premier has blamed Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah and ISI director-general for counter intelligence, Major General Faisal Naseer. Pakistan’s government and military leadership have strongly denied the allegations.

Speaking to French state-owned TV channel France 24, Khan said his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party is still the most popular party in the country. Khan added that he feared he would be attacked soon in the near future.

“They think that the only way to get me out of the way is actually [to] eliminate me,” Khan said. “So I think that there is a threat, still.”

The PTI chairman said an independent probe under the supervision of Pakistan’s chief justice would prove his allegations are true. “Who gained the most from this [assassination attempt] was this government,” Khan said.

Khan said the chief justice should form his own team from various departments and intelligence officers to ensure an independent probe is carried out.

He described a press conference by the head of Pakistan’s intelligence agency, ISI, as ‘unadvisable’. The former prime minister said that the press talk was held in response to the “big public backlash” after journalist Arshad Sharif was killed in Kenya last month.

“There was a big public backlash and people pointed fingers at the establishment and I think, I felt the press conference was more to placate public opinion,” he added.

Khan said he would take “more precautions” but added that he would not relent in his mission to establish rule of law in Pakistan. “Threat of being killed is not going to stop me from this mission,” he added.

Khan, whose supporters are marching toward the capital as he recuperates in his Lahore residence, said he would remain within the limits of the constitution. He said a peaceful protest was his given right within the constitution of Pakistan.