In 1st rally after being shot at, Imran says his party will quit all assemblies

At the climax of his long march, Pakistan former prime minister Imran Khan announced on Saturday that his Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf will quit all provincial assemblies, a move meant to intensify pressure on the beleaguered government to call snap polls.

Addressing hundreds of thousands of supporters in Rawalpindi in his first public appearance after being shot and wounded in the leg at a rally in Wazirabad, Pakistan Punjab, three weeks ago, the PTI chairman announced: "We will not march towards Islamabad as I do not want to spread chaos and anarchy in the country. But we have decided not to remain part of this system. We have decided to quit all the assemblies and get out of this corrupt system." The Khan-led PTI is in government in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan.