ISLAMABAD – Hours after accusing Prime Minister Imran Khan of planning theassassination, renowned Pakistani journalist Nusrat Javeed on Saturday feltregret over his remarks, which, he said, might have been uttered due to hisparanoia.
Earlier today, Javeed on his Twitter handle claimed to have survived a‘deadly attack’ in Islamabad while returning home, adding that the primeminister tried to get him killed.
However, the veteran journalist took to Twitter after few hours of hisnaked allegation and said that it was, according to the policeinvestigation, a tyre burst occurred due to stones on the road.
After a thorough probe by the Islamabad police, it surfaced that tyre ofthe vehicle got burst after hitting by a stone and the car skidded, causingrest of damage, Javeed said.
He further wrote “I have to accept their professional opinion. Perhaps thepost accident trauma made me paranoid and I suspected foul play for adefinite history with the current government”.
Javeed also apologised over the false accusations against the primeminister, stating: “I render a sincere apology to people who must have feltdeeply hurt for my paranoia”.
In the series of tweets, the journalists went on to say: “Police alsobelieve that boys came around me perhaps wanted to help me but the postaccident trauma and paranoia made me suspect otherwise. I have no choicebut accept the Police version”.
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He also thanked the members of the journalist community and others forextending the support during this trauma.
Earlier, Javeed, in a conversation with Naya Daur, said that he was drivingto his home from G-8, Islamabad, when suddenly shots were fired at his carnear the G-8 Imam Bargah.
“Both the tires on the left side of my car were burst and completelydamaged. Then six men in plain clothes came and inspected me… The plan wasto kill me”, he said in point-blank remarks.
“They must have thought that I’d be intoxicated and die in the accident butsince I was sober, they left me alone,” Javeed added.
The senior TV anchor confirmed that he had reached home safely but said hehadn’t filed a report with the police.
