Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan claimed on Friday that a new plan has been hatched for his assasination, and that Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari is one of the key conspirators of this plot.
During a live telecast speech, the former prime minister accused former president Asif Zardari of paying money to a terrorist outfit to carry out the latest assasination attempt on his life.
"Now they have made a Plan C, and Asif Zardari is behind this. He has loads of corruption money, which he loots from the Sindh government and spends on winning elections. He has given money to a terrorist outfit and people from powerful agencies are facilitating him. This has been decided on three fronts and they will act soon," he said.
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Imran Khan said that there were three more names along with Zardari who will be part of this new plot.
"I am telling you this because if something happens to me the nation should know the people who were behind this, so that the nation never forgives them," he added.
The former prime minister's latest claims come onths after he was wounded in a shooting at a rally in Wazirabad, part of a long march that he was leading to press for general elections. A number of other PTI leaders were also injured and a supporter killed in the November 3 attack.
A joint investigation team (JIT) was later formed by the Punjab provincial government to probe the attack on on the PTI chairman, while the federal government also formed a separate JIT to investigate the asssasinaton attempt.
Speaking during his address today, the PTI chairman said that, following his government's ouster in April, he came to know that an assassination attempt would be made against him and that it would be blamed on religious extremism.