Knew I was going to be attacked: Imran Khan on assassination bid

Imran Khan, the former prime minister of Pakistan, claimed he was informed he was going to be attacked a day after he reportedly survived an assassination attempt.

Imran Khan addressed the nation on Friday from a hospital in Lahore after the attacker shot him in the right leg during his rally in the Wazirabad area of Pakistan's Punjab province.

"I will come to the details of the attack later. I got to know the day before [the attack] that either in Wazirabad of Gujrat, they planned to kill me," Dawn quoted Imran Khan as saying. "I was hit by 4 bullets."

"Four people planned my assassination in a closed room. I made a video and kept it. I have told that if anything happens to me, then the video should be released," Imran Khan added.

Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party members protested the attempted murder on Friday in various cities. Imran Khan was spearheading a protracted march to Islamabad's capital to put pressure on the administration to grant his demand for new elections.

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In the meantime, the Punjab provincial administration has been instructed by Pakistan's Interior Ministry to form a high-level joint investigative team (JIT) to look into the matter.

Three persons have been arrested by the police thus far. Imran Khan's attacker, Naveed Mohammad Basheer, was arrested on Thursday near the scene of the crime. He eventually admitted to trying to kill Imran Khan to the police because "he was trying to mislead the public."

Additionally, the police have arrested two additional suspects they believe had sold the pistol and bullets for Rs 20,000 to Basheer.

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