Imran Khan accuses Maryam Nawaz of hatching plot to kill him by ‘non secular fanatic’

Pakistan’s ousted prime minister Imran Khan on Monday accused senior politician Maryam Nawaz of propagating “sectarianism and religious hatred” towards him and hatching a plot to kill him by a “religious fanatic”.

Khan additionally stated Maryam, the daughter of former premier Nawaz Sharif, is so determined that she can be ensuring that he’s disqualified by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) within the Toshakhana case for not disclosing the knowledge concerning the presents obtained from the state depository in his property declaration.

“Maryam Nawaz along with her accomplices propagated sectarianism and religious hatred against me to make a ground that any religious fanatic gets motivated and kill me,” Khan, 69, stated throughout his deal with with businessmen right here.

“I am not afraid of death as it will be decided by Allah (God) and none else,” the 69-year-old cricketer-turned-politician stated.

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At a rally in Rahim Yar Khan final Saturday, some 400 kms from Lahore, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman had additionally talked concerning the conspiracy to kill him.

“Four people had decided behind ‘closed doors’ to get me killed,” he claimed.

Earlier, Maryam, a senior Pakistan Muslim League (N) chief, had uploaded two purported statements of Imran Khan and as many verses of the Quran on her Twitter account to attract a comparability between them.

“This man (Imran) is using religion for his politics and promoting his false narrative. Save your faith and the country from this Satan,” she said.

Last week, the Punjab Police booked two federal ministers, as well as two senior officials of state-run PTV on terrorism charges for allegedly fanning religious hatred against Khan and endangering his life.

The FIR was filed against Federal Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb, Federal Minister Mian Javed Latif, PTV Managing Director Sohail Khan, as well as the broadcaster’s Controller Programmes, Rashid Baig, on the complaint of a local leader.

They were booked under Section 9 (punishment for acts intended or likely to stir up sectarian hatred) and Section 11X(3) (responsibility for creating civil commotion) of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997.

Latif had declared Khan a “non-Muslim” and a “supporter of the minority Ahmadi community”.

Pakistan’s Parliament in 1974 declared the Ahmadi neighborhood as non-Muslims. A decade later, they have been banned from calling themselves Muslims. They are banned from preaching and from travelling to Saudi Arabia for pilgrimage.

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