Pakistan’s former chief minister Imran Khan was aware that an assassination attempt would occur at a political rally in Gujranwala, Pakistan on November 3.
Khan, who revealed the same in an interview with CNN, said that “he had information from within intelligence agencies that the shooting which injured him last week would take place.”
During the interview, Khan said: “Remember, three and a half years I was in power. I have connections with intelligence agencies, the different agencies that operate. How did I get the information? From within the intelligence agencies. Why? because most people are appalled by what is going on in this country.”
The former prime minister also referred to a speech he made on September 24, in which he said he outlined how the events of the shooting would transpire.
Khan “blamed establishment figures for a plot to kill him,” on Friday, which was denied by governing and security officials.
Khan also told CNN: “As the events unfolded, they are in that speech. How this would happen, how in the name of blasphemy a religious fanatic would kill me and they would blame it on him. All this is in my speech which I put on television – it’s on social media.”
“They tried everything to somehow get me out of the way. When that didn’t happen, this was planned,” he added.
During the interview with CNN, Khan said that prominent Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif had been working on exposing the alleged assassination plot against him: “This guy was exposing this whole plot against me. He was hounded out of Pakistan.”
Sharif, who was killed in Kenya in October, had fled Pakistan in August due to sedition charges levelled against him for allegedly criticising state institutions and “abetting mutiny” within the military.
Pakistan’s military and government have denied any involvement in the alleged attack.
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