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‘Plan was not my arrest but assassination’: Imran pens letter to CJP

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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief and former premier Imran Khan on Tuesday penned another letter to Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Atta Bandial claiming that “unknown” individuals were present at the Islamabad Judicial Complex to assassinate him.
Imran claimed to seek permission to continue court appearances via video link due to security concerns.
“I have been consistently requesting for video link facility from courts for my multiple court appearances since I am now facing over 90 cases,” the PTI chief said, claiming that during court visits, he was provided with “no security” despite an “assassination plot already attempted against my [Imran’s] life”.
The ousted premier alleged that upon his arrival at Islamabad for his most recent court appearance, his convoy “was trapped on all sides by containers to block arrival at the [Judicial] Complex and before the Magistrate to deliberately try and create a false situation of ‘no show'”.
Imran also claimed that his supporters who had gathered to express their solidarity were “provoked” by the police and Rangers deployed at the premises who resorted to tear gas shelling, baton charge and stone pelting against “unarmed citizens and PTI leadership”.
“When I was halfway through the gate of the complex the police attacked the workers around my car without any provocation,” he said, stressing that it was at this point that he realised “that something was amiss and that it was not my arrest that was being planned but my assassination”.
“What led credence to this was that while our lawyers were not allowed inside the Complex and were beaten back from the door, about 20 or more Unknown (“Namaloom”) people (not uniformed and with no identity displayed) were allowed inside”, he said claiming that they were “clearly” there to assassinate Imran.

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