Serious threat to PM Imran's life, claims Vawda

PTI leader says prime minister shrugged off concerns shown by senior party leaders

In a startling claim on Wednesday, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) leader Faisal Vawda "revealed" that "a plan is being hatched to assassinate Prime Minister Imran Khan, as political tensions on the rise owing to the no-trust motion to oust the latter from power.

Reiterating the urgent need for amplified security, ruling party leaders urged the premier to use bulletproof glass while addressing rallies, Express News quoted Vawda as saying while talking to a private news channel this evening,

PM Imran, he added, shrugged off their concerns and said that "he will die when it is his time to die".

Commenting on the remarks, Vawda said: "PM Imran is a brave and courageous man; he won't compromise on Pakistan, neither will he allow the bowing of nation before anyone."

The PTI stalwart went on to say that the premier had received such threats earlier too, adding that now a conspiracy is afoot to implement the "plan".

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The move comes hours after the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) parted ways with the ruling party after it announced its support for the opposition parties on their no-trust motion against PM Imran.

After deliberating for weeks, the opposition parties finally managed to persuade the government’s coalition partner to go against the PM on the no-confidence motion, and now with the MQM-P’s support, the government has apparently lost its majority in the assembly.

Though the resignation has not yet been accepted, MQM-P’s move has left both PTI and PML-Q red-faced as they have lost three crucial wickets — PM Imran, CM Buzdar and would-be CM Elahi — on a single delivery.

With MQM-P siding with the opposition, the opposition officially now has more than the required numbers to oust PM Imran’s government through the vote of no confidence even without the PTI’s roughly two dozen dissidents.

The suspense in the wake of the no-confidence motion gripped the country for the past several weeks and everything else was put on the back burner: the only thing that continued by PM Imran was the use of inappropriate language, resorting to name-calling, and luring the allies and dissident members through requests and threats.