LAHORE:
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has accused the prime
minister, interior minister and the “black sheep” in the army for plotting and executing
multiple attempts to assassinate him.
Addressing via video link from his Zaman Park residence on Thursday,
Imran wants ‘empowered’ Wazirabad attack Mr. Khan urged the chief justice of Pakistan to back a powerful inquiry team, otherwise the plotters
functioning of the joint investigation team (JIT),” the former prime minister
said about the panel probing the attack on him in Wazirabad.
Questioning the powers-that-be, Mr. Khan insisted PML-N supreme leader
Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, whom he alleged was notorious for extra
-judicial killings and Interior Minister Rana Asmatullah, whom he
called a known killer, were the main characters of his assassination plot.
“What’s seriously worrying is that the defenders of the country
“Since I know the perpetrators of the attack and have been talking about the
whole plan in public meetings besides recording a video naming the four
at the mindse
that allows a country’s savior to go against its interests.”
“Since I ruled the country for over three years, I got a message from
-Pakistan elements could come up with such a plan, but not someone assigned to protect the country’s borders and interests.
In the wake of the JIT report, the PTI chairman attempted to explain the events
he believed took place culminating in the Nov 3 attack on him,
and posed several questions about the developments after that day.
He asked why he, despite being the head of a “federal political party” and a former premier,
shooter Naveed; who asked the Gujrat district police officer (DPO) to send that video to
“anti-PTI” journalists; who asked the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) to record another video late at night,
release and later re-release it with a changed background; and why some
Mr. Khan Wazirabad attack
insisted the JIT had confirmed that suspect Naveed’s polygraph test had
failed and that he was a trained shooter who was not acting alone. He said the suspect had recorded a “scripted” statement saying he was a religious fanatic and acted alone.
He further said the JIT confirmed there were three shooters, and asked
again why the suspect said he was a ‘lone wolf’?
The Imran wants ‘empowered’ Wazirabad attackPTI chairman also asked who was stopping the Gujrat DPO and a CTD official from
cooperating with the JIT despite the fact that both officials were serving the PTI-PML-Q-led Punjab government.
The PTI chief also regretted that the JIT provided a mobile phone of the suspects
to the forensic department but it refused to share details of the data — for being a federal government institution.
“Instead of helping the JIT find out who was behind the attempt on my life,
many key persons are not cooperating at the behest of the federal government,” he claimed.
The Punjab government
-formed JIT has reportedly found that the attack on
Govt reaction
Information Minister Arrium Aurangzeb said on Thursday Imran
Khan had brought the economy to its knees through his “disastrous policies”, adds APP.
In a press conference, she dismissed the PTI chief’s “narrative of helplessness” as a “pack of lies”.
The PTI has governments in Punjab, KP, Azad Kashmir and GB,
but ironically its chairman was complaining of “helplessness”, Imran wants ‘empowered’ Wazirabad attack she said.
“The PTI chief is right as it was only one person — Imran Khan himself — who played havoc
c with the country, deprived the poor of their livelihood, traded off Kashmir, took historic foreign debts,
and looted the national wealth ruthlessly during his four-year rule,” the minister added.
• Accuses PM, interior minister, ‘black sheep’ in army of plotting, executing murder attempts
• Insists JIT ‘proves’ multiple shooters involved in attack
Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan ha
s accused the prime minister, interior minister and the “black sheep”
in the army for plotting and executing multiple attempts to assassinate him.
Addressing via video link from his Zaman Park residence on Thursday
, Mr. Khan Wazirabad attack
urged the chief justice of Pakistan to back a powerful inquiry team, otherwise the plotters, who he alleged
joint investigation team (JIT),” the former prime minister said about the panel probing the attack on him in Wazirabad.
Questioning the powers-that-be, Mr. Khan insisted PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif,
Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, whom he alleged was
notorious for extra-judicial killings and Interior Minister Rana Satilla, whom he called a known killer,
were the main characters of his assassination plot.
“What’s seriously worrying is that the defenders of the country got
involved in the plot and are covering it up,” he lamented.
“Since I know the perpetrators of the attack and have been talking about the
whole plan in public meetings besides recording a video naming the four people
at the mindset that allows a country’s savior to go against its interests.”
“Since
I ruled the country for over three years, I got
he claimed, adding anti-Pakistan elements could come up with such a plan,
but not someone assigned to protect the country’s borders and interests.
In the wake of the JIT report, the PTI chairman attempted to
explain the events he believed took place culminating in the Nov 3 attack on him,
and posed several questions about the developments after that day.
He asked why he, despite being the head of a “federal political party”
recorded the video of the suspected shooter Naveed; who asked the Gujrat district police officer (DPO) to
send that video to “anti-PTI” journalists; who asked the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) to
record another video late at night, release and later re-release it with a changed background;