ISLAMABAD – Pakistani journalist, Nusrat Javeed has claimed escapingassassination attempt.
He has claimed to survive a ‘deadly attack’ in Islamabad while returninghome, early Saturday.
Javed took to Twitter midnight and alleged the prime minister of ‘trying toget him killed’.
Javeed repeated the allegation in another tweet as well.
When a twitterati informed that he could be charged for hurling falseaccusations against the sitting PM, he replied, please go ahead.
The ‘Nawa-i-Waqt’ columnist defended his point by saying, get me arrested,charged and get in jail.
The analyst continued that the plan was to get him killed in the name of‘KILLED BY DRUNK DRIVING’.
Javeed, who recently left the job with a leading TV channel, claimed thathe was aware of the plotters who tried to kill him.
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In another tweet, the journalist went a mile more and divulged that one ofthe interceptors ‘was a real brother of..,’ without revealing the name.
In a conversation with Naya Daur, Javeed said that he was driving to hishome from G-8, Islamabad when suddenly shots were fired at his car near theG-8 Imam Bara.
“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.
