Firing on Imran Khan carried out from 4 websites, 3 extra shooters concerned: Probe group

A group investigating the assassination try on Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan stated that firing was carried out from 4 completely different instructions.

Lahore,UPDATED: Jan 3, 2023 20:21 IST

Imran Khan suffered bullet accidents in the best leg on November 3 when two gunmen fired a volley of bullets at him.

By Press Trust of India: The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) probing the assassination try on Pakistan’s ousted prime minister Imran Khan has stated that the firing was carried out from 4 completely different websites and three extra shooters, apart from the arrested suspect, had been concerned within the assault.

Khan, the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), suffered bullet accidents in the best leg on November 3 when two gunmen fired a volley of bullets at him and others standing on a container-mounted truck within the Wazirabad space (some 150-km from Lahore), the place he was main the lengthy march to press for snap polls.

“Shots were fired by three unknown shooters, from unknown weapons from a considerable height other than the gun attack carried out by the suspect, Naveed Meher, arrested from the spot,” the Dawn newspaper reported quoting a member of the JIT on Tuesday.

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The JIT, led by Lahore Police chief Ghulam Mahmood Dogar, stated Khan was hit by three bullets on the container-mounted-truck in the course of the protest rally. A complete of 13 individuals had suffered bullet accidents in the course of the assault.

The JIT additionally pinpointed “some mismanagement” within the safety preparations on the PTI’s rally.Earlier, Punjab Home Minister Omar Sarfraz Cheema had stated that the gun assault on Khan was an “organised one and well-thought-out conspiracy”.

Naveed is a “trained assassin” and he was current on the crime scene together with his accomplices, the minister stated.

He stated Naveed additionally failed a polygraph check. Naveed had informed police he needed to kill Khan as music was performed throughout Azan time throughout his rally.

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Meanwhile, Prime Minister’s Special Assistant Attaullah Tarar on Tuesday moved the Lahore High Court, difficult the “illegal detention” of two PML-N staff — Mudassar and Ahsan — in reference to the gun assault on Khan.

Talking to reporters exterior the court docket, Tarar stated the JIT has illegally detained the 2 PML-N staff. Prime suspect Naveed and his cousin Muhammad Waqas are within the JIT custody.

Khan, 70, had blamed Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah and Major General Faisal Naseer of ISI for hatching a plot to assassinate him.

The Punjab Police had registered the FIR in reference to the assassination try on Khan however did not title the excessive profile suspects in it.
Khan had dismissed the FIR, saying with out the point out of Sharif, Sanaullah and Faisal it’s a mere “piece of trash”.

The Punjab Police stated they nabbed Naveed from the crime scene and he had confessed to his crime. Khan had claimed that Naveed is a skilled shooter and there was one other shooter who opened hearth on him from one other path.

The JIT has thus far recorded the statements of the policemen and PTI staff who had been current near Khan on the time of assault on him.
Khan is recovering from his wounds and is at the moment staying at his Lahore’s Zaman Park residence.

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Jan 3, 2023