Two weeks after Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan suffered wounds in a gun assault throughout a rally, the Islamabad Excessive Court docket stated there’s a chance of one other assassination try on him, citing intelligence reviews, reported Pakistani media, Daybreak. Based on the Chief Justice of Islamabad Excessive Court docket Aamer Farooq, it was the “authorities’s accountability to take cognizance of the looming risk on the previous prime minister”.

The CJI’s remarks got here whereas listening to a petition filed by merchants relating to street closures as a result of protest staged by Khan’s get together.

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The cricketer-turned-politician had suffered a bullet damage on his leg after a gun-wielding man fired bullets at him and others on November 4 within the Wazirabad space of Punjab province – throughout PTI’s protest march towards the Shehbaz Sharif authorities.

Earlier, Khan stated that he had discovered in regards to the looming hazard beforehand.

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“I had already discovered that there was a plan in place to kill me someplace between Wazirabad and Gujrat. 4 folks plotted to kill me. I made a video and named these folks and have stashed it overseas,” he had stated as he spoke throughout a televised tackle whereas nonetheless being admitted on the Shaukat Khanum Hospital in Lahore.

In the meantime, on Thursday, Pakistan’s Supreme Court docket dismissed a petition to cease Khan’s protest march. The court docket noticed that “it was a political subject and needs to be resolved politically.”

(With inputs from businesses)