PPP leaders on Saturday announced plan 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 to assassinate him for which the former president had “given money to a terrorist outfit. In a joint news conference, PPP senior leaders Nayyar Bukhari, Farhatullah Babar and Qamar Zaman Kaira criticized PTI Chairman Imran Khan over his allegations, saying he had “lost his mind” and they would issue a legal notice demanding him to retract his accusations.

In a televised address yesterday, the ex-premier said that plans had been hatched to assassinate him as soon as he was ousted. “Now they have made a plan C and Zardari is behind it. He has unlimited corrupt money the money he loots from the Sindh government is used in elections, to buy MPAs […] whether it is the elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa or Gilgit-Baltistan, he recklessly throws money around,” Imran said yesterday.

In the media talk, Bukhari said the PPP’s stance is that the allegation made by Imran is “baseless and a lie”. He remarked, “Imran Khan has politically died regarding his political thinking and political character. He is afflicted with depression and panic.” The former Senate chairman said, “In this panic, he keeps on blaming various institutions whether it is the establishment, the Election Commission [of Pakistan] or the former army chief.”

“His allegations are never based on reality. If they were, he surely would’ve approached the available forms according to the Constitution and the law but he never went there,” he added. Bukhari asserted, “In fact, people’s party is [ideologically] opposed to physical elimination [as] PPP itself has been its target. PPP’s politics does not believe in it either.

“We will be issuing Imran Khan a legal notice today and in that, we are demanding him to withdraw his statement. If he doesn’t, then the PPP has the right to approach the forums and courts for civil and criminal proceedings.”
Sitting beside Bukhari, Babar said, “He has said that Zardari sahab has reached an understanding with a terrorist outfit to end Imran Khan. Imran Khan should think that will his enemies hire militants to end him as he himself is Taliban Khan.”

He added, “The person who himself is a patron of militants, him saying a plot to end him has been made by hiring militants tells itself what his mental level is.” The former senator asserted, “I genuinely believe that Imran Khan is now out of his senses and he’s out of senses because of the loss of power.” Citing Imran’s decision to dissolve two assemblies under his government, he said, “If you have lost your mental balance, then it is not the PPP’s or Asif Zardari sahab’s fault.”

Credit : Independent News Pakistan-INP