LAHORE: In startling remarks, PTI Chairman Imran Khan has claimed that he did not disembark from his vehicle at the Judicial Complex in Islamabad — where he went to attend a hearing in the Toshakhana case against him on Saturday — because “unknown people” were positioned there with plans to kill him.
“Had I am not moved from the complex immediately, that might have resulted in bloodshed as the police, Rangers, and unidentified people were making all-out efforts to provoke my party workers to create a battleground and use it as a cover to kill me,” claimed Mr Khan, adding the incumbent rulers had made this plan on the instructions of PML-N chief organiser Maryam Nawaz.
The former PM also called for his party’s power show at Minar-i-Pakistan on Wednesday, which he said would serve as a referendum.
In a video-link address from his Zaman Park residence on Sunday afternoon, Mr Khan warned, “the game will get out of hand if the incumbent rulers do not show restraint”.
Expressing anger over the “police attack” on his home in his absence on Saturday, the PTI chief said he felt devastated to see the ransacking and the way police looted his belongings. He wondered whether anyone could tolerate police desecrating the sanctity of the home and women, and that too without search warrants and in violation of the court order.
“I have called all my lawyers, discussed filing of cases against all the policemen who broke into my residence and ransacked the property, besides submitting a contempt of court plea in the Lahore High Court,” Mr Khan said.
