LAHORE: Imran Khan said Punjab and Islamabad police chiefs and their “handlers” are “getting serious to assassinate him”.
The Punjab and Islamabad IGs have formed two teams to join PTI workers and open fire on cops. to instigate an armed reprisal and eventually reach [inside the home] and assassinate me, in a day or two,” Mr Khan said from his Zaman Park residence on Wednesday.
The former premier claimed the IGs and handlers plotted a Model Town-style murder.
In light of this claimed plan, the PTI chairman instructed his followers not to irritate the police at all. Mr. Khan urged the police to personally approach him with any warrant or other concern.
He replied, “The incumbent government and its plans to kill me failed. Now they are jittery and taking extreme measures,” he said.
Mr. Khan asked the youth to pledge to fight the current administration even if they die. The PTI chief said, “Put up a fight until the last ball because the government wants to create an environment of fear so that no one should stand up and question them”. The government should know that the movement would not be halted.
“A few sitting in the corridors of power and making decisions, the real traitors,” he said.
Moreover, The PTI head told the Islamabad High Court chief justice about his five-hour journey from Islamabad Toll Plaza to the judicial complex. Claiming that he had been issued a contempt notice for not reaching the courtroom.
Mr. Khan questioned police aggression against party supporters, saying neither my party employees nor the public was violent. “I stood outside the judicial complex’s gate for 40 minutes,” he added, witnessing “police, army and unknown people wearing CTD uniform” fighting.
Mr. Khan claimed, “They had the plan to take my vehicle inside the complex, close the gates, create a violence-like situation, and kill me in a Murtaza Bhutto-type murder.” He returned from the gate after signing the attendance register.
