LONDON: Emerging as a popular political party in Pakistan especially amongst youth, Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf chief revealed in an interview that a assassination attempt was prevented only by lifter fall accident.
While exchanging words with DailyMail, PTI Imran Khan thanked for the accident as it saved his life from assassins which could be hired by his political opponents in Pakistan.
He said, “I spent the closing days of the Pakistan election campaign in a hospital bed and the fall that nearly killed me quite possibly saved my life.”
Khan claimed that he was number one on the terrorist hit-list, although who the terrorists would be was anybody’s guess.
PTI chief said that anybody could be hired assassins probably from at least 25 militant groups which now call themselves ‘Taliban’.
The authorities had warned me that my life was at risk, and I had been given the highest level of police security.
One safety measure was having me speak from a platform about 24ft above ground. This provided some protection from a potential bomb blast and also stopped passionate youths from climbing on to the stage.
The British public might struggle to understand the energy and the chaos of that campaign. The meeting in Lahore where I fell in May was the first of nine separate rallies scheduled for that night.
The following day I was supposed to be speaking at a further 13, spaced along the old Grand Trunk Road from Lahore to Islamabad. About a quarter of Pakistani voters live along that route.
There were no steps, so instead a forklift truck was used to raise me up to the small platform to speak.
PTI Imran Khan got severe injuries as punctured lung, a crushed vertebra, three more chipped or fractured vertebrae, and concussion after losing his balance on lifter in Lahore on May 7.
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