Attempts under way to sabotage JIT findings: Imran

Claims Punjab caretaker govt reconstituted JIT on the orders of powerful quarters

Former prime minister and PTI chief Imran Khan on Friday claimed that attempts were being made to sabotage findings of the joint investigation team (JIT) probing the failed assassination attempt on his life.

Imran had sustained multiple injuries in the gun attack in Wazirabad on November 3 last year while leading his ‘Haqeeqi Azadi’ march towards Islamabad.

One person died in the shooting, while several other members of the PTI chairman’s close circle, including Faisal Javaid, Imran Ismail, Ahmad Chattha and Imran Yousaf were also injured.

“If anyone still has any doubts about who was responsible for my assassination attempt, just see what is happening with the JIT report submitted before the anti-terrorist court,” the former premier wrote on his official Twitter handle.

“Attempts to sabotage findings of the JIT in its report through deliberate tampering are now under way,” he claimed.

The former PM said prosecutor general, after an independent inquiry, had found four officers guilty of destroying evidence and sought action against them.

“But powerful forces have made the Punjab caretaker government reconstitute the JIT to include all four of these officers with one of them, Syed Khurram Ali, as convener,” he added.

Important record pertaining to the investigation of the attack on the former prime minister in Wazirabad had gone missing from the Punjab Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE).

The record contained the investigation files of the JIT formed to probe the assassination bid.

An ACE officer, Anwar Shah, was a member of the JIT, and was looking after the record at the vigilance cell. The officer was later suspended.

Earlier this month, newly appointed ACE Director General Sohail Zafar Chatha had announced the establishment of a five-member committee to investigate the matter.