IMRAN KHAN ESCAPES PLANE CRASH, AIRCRAFT MAKES EMERGENCY LANDING; PTI REFUTES REPORTS

Sat 10 September 2022:

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan escaped a plane crash on Saturday after the aircraft he was travelling on made an emergency landing due to technical malfunction mid-air, sources said. The airplane developed a technical snag soon after it was airborne.

The pilot landed the plane safely after contacting the control tower for an emergency landing.

The PTI chairman was travelling from Chaklala to Gujranwala for a rally, according to reports. Later, he travelled to Gujranwala by road for his rally.

PTI refutes reports of Imran Khan escaping a ‘plane accident’

According to the Express Tribune Imran Khan’s plane returned to Islamabad soon after the takeoff due to bad weather conditions, PTI leader Azhar Mashwani clarified on Saturday.

“Reports of any technical fault in the aircraft are incorrect,” the PTI leader wrote on his official Twitter handle.

چئیرمین عمران خان کا طیارہ موسم کی خراب صورتحال کی وجہ سے اڑان بھرنے کی کچھ دیر بعد واپس اسلام آباد اتارا گیا

طیارے میں کسی قسم کی فنی خرابی کی اطلاعات غلط ہیں – @umer_sultan

چئیرمین براستہ سڑک گوجرانولہ روانہ ہوئے

— Azhar Mashwani (@MashwaniAzhar) September 10, 2022

Later, the PTI chairman left for Gujranwala by road, he added.

Earlier this month, a vehicle of Imran’s security convoy caught fire in Islamabad. However, the former premier remained unhurt in the incident.

The incident occurred while Imran was returning to his Bani Gala residence in the federal capital after attending a public rally in Gujrat.

The former prime minister in a power-packed rally in Gujranwala addressed his party’s Insaf Student Federation (ISF) and the youth and claimed Pakistan’s founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah had freed the nation from the slavery of the Britishers but the nation was now plagued with a different type of slavery, according to Dawn news.

Imran Khan is facing contempt of court charges for making controversial remarks against a female judge after a Pakistan Court on Thursday called his response “unsatisfactory”. The 69-year-old had threatened to file cases against top police officials, election commission and political opponents over the treatment meted out to his aide Shahbaz Gill, who was arrested on charges of sedition.