Former prime minister Imran Khan on Monday demanded a “proper inquiry” into the death of Sub Inspector Aamir Shahzad Bhadar, the complainant and a “critical witness” of the Wazirabad assassination attempt on the PTI chairman.
Bhadar, who was the station house officer of Sadar police station in Wazirabad, died of cardiac arrest on Sunday. The officer was at his house in his native village Bhadar near Kharian town of Gujrat when his condition deteriorated, according to family sources.
He was driven to Kharian Combined Military Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.
Bhadar was the complainant in the case registered against the Nov 2 gun attack on Imran’s rally. He has since been serving at Sadar police station, where he was posted days before the attack.
Last year, a PTI worker died and 14 others, including the former prime minister and PTI leaders, were injured in the attack at Wazirabad’s Allahwala Chowk, where the party’s “Haqeeqi Azadi” march against the federal government had stopped on its way to Islamabad. Subsequently, a joint investigation team was constituted to probe the attack.
In a series of tweets today, the PTI chairman called the death of officer “sudden”, saying that Bhadar was a “critical witness in unearthing the conspirators” behind the assassination plot being inquired into by a JIT.
He also claimed that the record of the JIT was being tampered with.
“It is equally important to recall the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of FIA investigator Dr Rizwan as well as the deaths of Maqsood Chaprassi and all other witnesses in Shehbaz Sharif’s money laundering case,” the ex-premier added.
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