ISLAMABAD 28 Jan (Online): PPP leaders on Saturday announced plans to send a legal notice to PTI chairman Imran Khan, a day after he claimed PPP co-chairman Asif Zardari was behind a new plot assassinate hik for which the former president had \u201cgiven money to a terrorist outfit.<\/p>\n
In a joint news conference, PPP senior leaders Nayyar Bukhari, Farhatullah Babar and Qamar Zaman Kaira criticised Imran over his allegations, saying he had \u201clost his mind\u201d and they would issue a legal notice demanding him to retract his accusations.<\/p>\n
In a televised address yesterday, the ex-premier said that plans had been hatched to assassinate him as soon as he was ousted.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow they have made a plan C and Zardari is behind it. He has unlimited corrupt[ion] money [\u2026] the money he loots from the Sindh government is used in elections, to buy MPAs [\u2026] whether it is the elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa or Gilgit-Baltistan, he wantonly throws money around,\u201d Imran said yesterday.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has given this money to a terror outfit. His facilitators are powerful people in the agencies. The decision has been taken from three sides and they have planned to execute the next crime,\u201d Imran had claimed.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut if something happens to me, my nation should know who was behind it [\u2026] so that my nation never forgives them.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the media talk today, Bukhari said the PPP\u2019s stance is that the allegation made by Imran is \u201cbaseless and a lie\u201d. He remarked, \u201cImran Khan has politically died [\u2026] He is afflicted with depression and panic.\u201d<\/p>\n
The former Senate chairman said: \u201cIn this panic, he keeps on blaming various institutions \u2014 whether it is the establishment, the election commission or the former army chief.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis allegations are never based in reality. If they were, he surely would\u2019ve approached the available forums according to the Constitution and the law but he never went there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bukhari asserted: \u201cIn fact, the People\u2019s Party is [ideologically] opposed to physical elimination [as] PPP itself has been its target.\u201d<\/p>\n
He then announced that the party would be issuing Imran Khan a legal notice and in it, \u201cwe are demanding that he withdraw his statement\u201d. \u201cIf he doesn\u2019t, the PPP has the right to approach the forums and courts for civil and criminal proceedings.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sitting beside Bukhari, Farhatullah Babar said: \u201cHe has said that Zardari Sahab has reached an understanding with a terrorist outfit to end Imran Khan. Imran Khan should ask himself \u2014 would his enemies hire militants to kill him even though he himself is Taliban Khan.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cA person, who himself is a patron of militants, is saying a plot to end him has been made by hiring militants tells itself what his mental level is.\u201d<\/p>\n
The former senator asserted: \u201cI genuinely believe that Imran Khan has now lost [his] senses, and he\u2019s out of his senses because of the loss of power.\u201d<\/p>\n
Citing Imran\u2019s decision to dissolve the Punjab and KP assemblies that were under his party, he said: \u201cIf you have lost your mental balance, then it is not the PPP\u2019s or Asif Zardari sahab\u2019s fault.\u201d<\/p>\n
Additionally, Kaira said, \u201cWe are demanding here today that the nation, the media, the whole civil society should demand Imran Khan to bring forward what information and evidence he has [as] he has made a specific allegation and not said that it is a hearsay\u201d.<\/p>\n
He claimed Imran\u2019s politics was \u201cnot democratical but fascist\u201d. \u201cPutting his opponents in jail, making allegations, doing character assassination, stirring up mayhem and spreading sensationalism at specific moments [\u2026] are weapons of fascism.\u201d<\/p>\n
The PPP leader remarked: \u201cWhenever Imran Khan is in a difficult situation and in depression, he tries to get out of that phase by putting [the blame of] his failures on his opponents, spreading sensationalism and attacking institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD 28 Jan (Online): PPP leaders on Saturday announced plans to send a legal notice to PTI chairman Imran Khan, a day after he claimed PPP co-chairman Asif Zardari was behind a new plot assassinate hik for which the former president had \u201cgiven money to […]<\/p>\n
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