The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Monday that \u201cirresponsible and baseless allegations\u201d by PTI Chairman Imran Khan against a serving senior military officer without evidence were \u201cextremely unfortunate, deplorable and unacceptable\u201d.
\nDuring a rally on Saturday, the PTI chairman had accused a senior intelligence official of orchestrating plans to murder him.
\n\u201cI am on the roads despite verifiable threats to life. I have already escaped an assassination attempt once. On the second occasion, I was able to sniff out murder planning,\u201d he had said.
\nThis is not the first time the ex-premier has made these claims. After an assassination attempt on him last year, Imran had held Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah and the senior intelligence official responsible for the bid to assassinate him and demanded their resignations.
\nIn a statement issued today, the military\u2019s media wing said: \u201cChairman PTI has levelled highly irresponsible and baseless allegations against a serving senior military officer without any evidence.
\nThis fabricated and malicious allegation is extremely unfortunate, deplorable and unacceptable.\u201c
\n\u201cThis has been a consistent pattern for the last year wherein military and intelligence agencies officials are targeted with insinuations and sensational propaganda for the furtherance of political objectives,\u201d it said.
\n\u201cWe ask the political leader concerned to make recourse to legal avenues and stop making false allegations,\u201d the ISPR said, adding that the institution reserved the right to \u201ctake legal course of action against patently false and malafide statements and propaganda\u201d.
\nA day earlier, PM Shehbaz had also criticised Imran and said: \u201cImran Niazi\u2019s act of routinely maligning and threatening the Pakistan Army and Intelligence Agency for the sake of petty political gains is highly condemnable.\u201d
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