Wazirabad attack: JIT members claim CCPO Lahore not considering 'divergent' views.

LAHORE -- Four joint investigation team (JIT) members probing the Wazirabad attack on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan on Wednesday distanced themselves from "some of the conclusions drawn and being shown on media" as they complained that CCPO Lahore was not "giving due weightage" to their "divergent views".

The former prime minister had sustained a bullet wound to his leg on November 3, 2022, after an armed attack on his container, as he led the PTI's 'Haqeeqi Azadi March' in Wazirabad.

One person had died in the incident, while several members of the PTI chairman's close circle, including Senator Faisal Javaid, former Sindh governor Imran Ismail, Ahmad Chattha and Imran Yousaf, were injured.

Breaking his silence in a video address after the attack, the PTI chairman had alleged that three people - Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah, and a senior military officer, were behind the botched assassination attempt on his life.

Earlier this month, senior PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry had claimed that the JIT constituted to investigate the November 3 attack on Imran had found that there was a planned attempt to assassinate him.

Sharing the findings of the JIT, Fawad had said that by reducing the number of police personnel in Gujarat, an opportunity was provided for the attack and subsequently an assassination attempt was made on Imran.

'The revelations made in the JIT report will be made public soon," the senior party leader had said, while speaking to the media. 'A well-thought-out narrative was chalked out to give the assassination attempt the cover of religiously-motivated crime,' he had added.

Previously, however, contrary to PTI chairman and deposed premier Imran Khan's claim, the JIT had found no evidence of a second attacker.

Last week, the forensic...