A murder case was filed against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan, his wife Bushra Bibi, and senior party leaders in connection with the deaths of paramilitary soldiers during a protest last month.
Three soldiers of paramilitary Rangers were crushed to death and another was seriously injured in a car accident allegedly driven by a PTI supporter during the protest in Islamabad.
A First Information Report (FIR) has been lodged with the Ramna Police Station in Islamabad on a complaint lodged by a Rangers official who claims the whole incident had been planned from Adiala Jail
Rawalpindi where Mr. Khan has been locked up, the newspaper reports on Friday.
The former prime minister and his wife have been named as the main suspects, and PTI leaders, including Ali Amin Gandapur, Umar Ayub, Waqas Akram, Salman Akram Raja, Murad Saeed, Zulfi Bukhari, Rauf Hassan, Hammad Azhar, among others, have been accused of conspiring to execute the plan, the report said.
It claimed that at the behest and on orders of Khan, along with involvement from the top PTI leadership, the Rangers personnel were killed. According to the FIR, it was in those various meetings of the PTI leadership with certain prisoners of the jail where this plan was conceived. And this was a plot devised for attacking security forces.
The FIR also identified several witnesses of the plot, including prisoners, labourers, and secret police employees within the jail.
In addition, the FIR claimed that Bushra Bibi and other party leaders incited the public through a video message, asking them to rise against the army and government. The PTI leadership is accused of inciting rebellion and violence through their calls for public unrest.
According to political analysts, the fresh case may be a cause for concern for Khan, who is already facing nearly 200 cases. A vast majority of them have been filed after his government fell in April 2022 following a no-confidence vote.
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