The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf leader made these claims while speaking from his residence in Zaman Park, Lahore, during an exclusive interview with CNN’s Becky Anderson. “They took three bullets out of my right leg. The left one had some shrapnel left in it,” Imran Khan said according to CNN. When asked what information he has received and from whom, he said he got it from the intelligence services. “Remember, I’ve been in power for three and a half years. I have connections with the intelligence agencies, the various agencies that operate,” he said. Imran Khan further claimed that the entire assassination plot against him was planned two months ago, ARY News reported on Monday citing Imran Khan’s CNN interview. “It all started when I was ousted and since then it was expected that my party would collapse, but what happened was that there was a big public reaction and my party gained huge support,” he said. Imran Khan alleged that the incumbent government had planned the attack on him and wanted to show that a “religious fanatic did it”, ARY News reported. “It was a planned assassination attempt. I went on the air beforehand and warned that this would happen,” he added. Earlier on Monday, Imran Khan wrote a letter to the country’s president Arif Alvi, asking him to act against “abuse of power and violations of laws and the Constitution”. “No individual or state agency can be above the law of the land. We have seen a mass abuse of citizens at the hands of rogue elements within state organizations, including torture imprisonment and kidnapping all done with impunity. You hold the highest office of the State and I ask you to act now to stop the abuse of power and violations of our laws and the Constitution, which guarantees the fundamental rights of every citizen,” Khan wrote in a letter to Alvey. Imran Khan was shot at during his long march in Wazirabad on Thursday, resulting in bullet injuries in his legs. After sustaining leg injuries, he was taken to hospital for treatment. Khan was leading the PTI march towards Islamabad when he was attacked in Wazirabad. Thursday’s attack left one dead and 13 injured, Geo News reported. (A I)
