Imran asks ISPR to ‘listen carefully’ as he calls out senior military official again

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan told the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Tuesday to ‘listen carefully’ as he once again held a senior military official responsible for the assassination attempts on his life.

Prior to a court appearance, the former premier lambasted the military’s media wing a day after the Pakistan Army lashed out at Imran, saying that he levelled “highly irresponsible and baseless allegation” against a serving senior military officer without any evidence.

“This fabricated and malicious allegation is extremely unfortunate, deplorable and unacceptable. This has been a consistent pattern for the last year wherein military and intelligence agencies officials are targeted with insinuations and sensational propaganda for the furtherance of political objectives,” the military’s media wing said.

Replying to the ISPR, Imran stated that every citizen should be respected not just “one institution” and alleged again that a senior intelligence officer was behind two assassination attempts against his life.

The PTI leader claimed that he cared more about the Pakistan army than the institution itself di.

He furthered that he was the chief of the country’s biggest political party and the nation had known him for 50 years, therefore he “did not need to lie”.

Imran continued that the intelligence official tried to kill him twice and he would prove it if there was ever an investigation.

“He had a whole gang with him and the people know who these officials are because this is the era of social media,” he added.

Imran claimed that despite being a former prime minister, he could not file a first informant report (FIR) because “that man” was named in it. He continued that what was true and what was false would come to the forefront if there was an FIR and then an investigation against the official. He maintained that the official should have come to the front if he believed he was “innocent”.

“He is so powerful that even as an ex-prime minister whose government was in power in Punjab, I could not name him in the FIR”.