Within hours, the army’s media wing, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), hit back. But at a rally last week Khan claimed that his calls for an inquiry were being thwarted by “one powerful man” – Dirty Harry – whom he identified as Maj Gen Faisal Naseer of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the country’s powerful spy agency. These allegations have been strongly denied and termed “false and cheap conspiracies”.Īfter the attack, Khan demanded the immediate resignation of the alleged plotters and a full investigation he also claimed to have “ sniffed out” another assassination attempt. Nicknamed “Dirty Harry” by Khan – a reference to Clint Eastwood’s rogue police officer – he is accused of conspiring with the current prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, and his interior minister to kill Khan during a rally in Punjab province in November 2022 when gunmen opened fire and injured Khan. Those fears have been compounded by allegations of an assassination plot, whose mastermind is said by Khan to be a serving army general and senior intelligence officer. It is no wonder that many now fear for the fate of Imran Khan. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was hanged in 1979 by a military dictatorship after a controversial trial his daughter, Benazir Bhutto, was assassinated in 2007 just weeks after enduring house arrest under the orders of another military regime. ![]() ![]() Khan’s long list of predecessors in this category include former prime ministers Nawaz Sharif, Benazir Bhutto and Pakistan’s first freely elected prime minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto all spent extended periods behind bars.
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