>> YOU HAVE ACCUSED PAKISTAN'S CURRENT PRIME MINISTER, THE
INTERIOR MINISTER, AND A SENIOR INTELLIGENCE OFFICIAL FOR THE
ATTACK ON YOUR LIFE. THESE ARE SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS.
WHAT'S YOUR EVIDENCE? >> WELL, BECKY, ABOUT TWO
MONTHS AGO, THIS PLOT WAS CONCEIVED.
I WENT ON IN PUBLIC. I WENT ON THE 24TH OF SEPTEMBER
AND ANNOUNCED THE PLOT. LET ME GIVE YOU THE BACKGROUND.
HOW DO I KNOW THAT WHAT I AM SAYING AND WHAT EVIDENCE I HAVE?
IT STARTED OUT WHEN I WAS DEPOSED FROM GOVERNMENT.
FROM THEN ONWARDS, WHAT WAS EXPECTED WAS THAT OUR PARTY
WOULD JUST FALL APART. WHAT HAS IN FACT HAPPENED IS
THAT THOSE TWO FAMILIES BEING AGAIN IMPOSED ON US WHO HAVE
BEEN RULING FOR 30 YEARS, THERE WAS A BIG PUBLIC BACKLASH.
RATHER THAN MY PARTY GOING DOWN, IT HAS BROUGHT THE PARTY SUCH
PUBLIC SUPPORT. WE WANT 75% OF THE ELECTIONS
SINCE WE WERE OUT OF POWER. ALL EFFORTS WERE MADE TO MAKE
IT OUT OF THE RACE TO DISQUALIFY ME.
>> THAT BACKGROUND WE KNOW. WITH RESPECT, I ASKED YOU FOR
THE EVIDENCE BEHIND THE ALLEGATIONS.
>> BECKY, AND WITH RESPECT, IF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THE
BACKGROUND, HOW WOULD THEY KNOW WHY THIS ATTEMPTED TOOK PLACE?
THE REASON WHY THEY HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING TO SOMEHOW GET ME
OUT OF THE WAY, WHEN THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN, THIS WAS
PLANNED. TWO MONTHS AGO, AN AGENCY
PRODUCES THIS VIDEO WHICH ACCUSES ME OF BLASPHEMY.
THERE'S A JOURNALIST WHO WAS LINKED WITH THESE AGENCIES
COMES UP WITH THIS VIDEO SAYING HOW I HAD OFFENDED THE
RELIGIOUS SENTIMENTS OF THE PEOPLE.
THE RULING PARTY INFORMATION MINISTER ALONG WITH THE
DAUGHTER OF THE FORMER PRIME MINISTER, MARIAM, THEY THEN GO
ON TELEVISION AND SAY HOW I HAVE UPSET THE SENTIMENTS OF
THE PEOPLE. IT IS THEN THAT I WENT ON AIR
AND SAID THIS IS A PLANTING. IF THEY ASSASSINATED ME, THE
EVIDENCE WOULD GO ON THE GOVERNMENT.
THEY MADE IT OUT THAT IT WAS A RELIGIOUS FANATIC WHO IS GOING
TO KILL ME AND THEN PUT -- >> LET ME PUT THIS TO YOU.
YOUR ALLEGATIONS HAVE BEEN AGGRESSIVELY REFUTED.
I HAVE TO PUT THIS TO YOU. PAKISTAN'S PRIME MINISTER HAS
CONDEMNED THE ATTACK ON HER LIFE, WISHING YOU A SPEEDY
RECOVERY ON HIS TWITTER. THE INTERIOR MINISTER HAS
REJECTED YOUR ACCUSATIONS. THIS IS SUCH A GRIEVOUS
STATEMENT. IT HAPPENED IN THE PROVINCE
WHERE -- THE MILITARY HAS ALSO ISSUED
THIS STATEMENT, SAYING, IN PART, QUOTE, THE BASELESS AND
IRRESPONSIBLE ALLEGATIONS BY CHAIRMAN PTI AGAINST THE
INSTITUTION, PARTICULARLY A SENIOR ARMY OFFICER, ARE
ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE AND UNCALLED FOR.
PAKISTAN'S ARMY PRIDES ITSELF FOR BEING AN EXTREMELY
PROFESSIONAL AND WELL DISCIPLINED ORGANIZATION WITH A
ROBUST AND HIGHLY EFFECTIVE ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM,
APPLICABLE ACROSS THE BOARD FOR LAWFUL ACTS COMMITTED BY
UNIFORMED PERSONNEL. PAKISTAN'S MINISTRY OF
INFORMATION RELEASED A VIDEO THAT CNN CANNOT VERIFY.
THERE WAS A CONFESSION FROM AN UNNAMED MAN WHO WOULD CLAIMS
CARRY OUT THE ATTACK. IN THAT VIDEO, THE MAN SAID HE
WANTED TO KILL YOU BECAUSE YOU WERE MISLEADING THE PEOPLE.
IS IT NOT CONCEIVABLE THAT THE PERPETRATOR WAS ACTING ALONE
AGAINST YOU AND YOUR PARTY'S POLICIES?
>> FIRST OF ALL, THERE WERE TWO SHOOTERS.
THERE WAS DEFINITELY MAYBE ANOTHER ONE.
THERE WAS THIS GUY WHO FIRED THE FIRST VOLLEY AND I FELL.
OTHER PEOPLE FELL BECAUSE HE GOT OUR LEGS.
WE WERE SAVED BECAUSE ONE OF THE PEOPLE IN THE CROWD PUT HIS
GUN DOWN. OTHERWISE, WE WOULD HAVE ENDED.
THERE WAS ANOTHER PERSON WHO CAME IN.
THE VOLLEY CAME OVER OUR HEADS. IT WAS A PLANNED ASSASSINATION
ATTEMPT. WE WENT ON AIR BEFOREHAND.
I WARNED THEM THAT THIS IS WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN.
AFTER THE ATTACK, THE THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED, THE
COVER-UP THAT IS GOING ON -- THAT IS WHY I'VE CALLED FOR AN
INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION. IF AN INDEPENDENT OR PROPER
INVESTIGATION IS TO BE DONE, WITH THEM ON TOP, IT CAN NEVER
HAPPEN. I HAVE APPEALED TO THE CHIEF
JUSTICE OF PAKISTAN WHO HAS -- IF I AM IN THE WRONG, THE
INQUIRY WOULD BE WRONG. I KNOW THE SEQUENCE OF EVENTS.
I KNOW THE GOVERNMENT THAT TOOK PLACE.
THE SWAB WAS PLANNED. IT WAS FIVE MONTHS AGO.
>> YOU HAVE BLAMED THE U.S. AND OTHER ACTORS FOR OUSTING YOU AS
PRIME MINISTER. YOU HAVE MADE IT ABUNDANTLY
CLEAR TO RETURN TO POWER. WOULDN'T ACCUSING THE CURRENT
GOVERNOR WITHOUT PROOF WORK IN FAVOR OF YOUR POLITICAL
ENDEAVORS? THAT IS CERTAINLY WHAT YOUR
CRITICS ARE SUGGESTING. >> BECKY, I DON'T NEED ANY
REASON TO ACCUSE THIS GOVERNMENT FOR ME TO GET BACK
INTO POWER. ALL OF THE OPINION --
THIS IS THE MOST POPULAR PARTY. WE DON'T NEED TO ACCUSE PEOPLE
OF ASSASSINATION SO THAT YOU GET MORE POPULAR IN THIS
COUNTRY. WE KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING.
THE TWO PEOPLE I HAVE ACCUSED, THE PRIME MINISTER AND THE
INTERIOR MINISTER, BOTH HAVE BEEN ACCUSED FOR A MASSACRE.
12 PEOPLE WERE MASSACRED AT ABOUT 60 WERE HIT WITH BULLETS
WHEN THE POLICE OPENED FIRE AT AN UNARMED CROWD WHICH IS HOW
YOU DO A POLITICAL PROTEST. IT'S CALLED THE --
THEY HAVE BEEN ACCUSED OF KILLING PEOPLE, ASSASSINATION,
EXTRA -- THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME THEY
HAVE DONE IT. AS FAR AS THE INTELLIGENCE
AGENCY, THE OFFICER, WE KNOW HOW THE EVIDENCE WAS, HOW THE
SOLE PLOT OPENED UP. WE KNOW HOW THE VIDEO, WHO MADE
THE VIDEO, HOW IT WAS ORCHESTRATED, AND THE COVER-UP
THAT IS TAKING PLACE. >> OKAY.
>> IT WAS ON TELEVISION. HOW WAS THIS GUY ALLOWED TO --
>> I AM HEARING YOUR ACCUSATIONS.
LET ME PUT THIS TO YOU. LET ME JUST PUT THIS TO YOU.
PAKISTAN'S ELECTRONIC MEDIA REGULATORY AUTHORITY HAD
INITIALLY ISSUED A BAN ON AIR OR NEAR SPEECHES.
THAT WAS NOT UNTIL THE PRIME MINISTER HIMSELF USED HIS
EXECUTIVE ORDER TO REVERSE THAT PLAN.
SOME WILL SEE THAT AS A SHOW OF GOOD FAITH IN LIGHT OF YOUR
ALLEGATIONS AGAINST HIM. DO YOU SEE IT AS SUCH.
? >> I DO THINK THE SHUTDOWN ON
MEDIA IS UNPRECEDENTED. ONE OF THE BEST INVESTIGATIVE
JOURNALISTS IN PAKISTAN WAS ASSASSINATED IN KENYA JUST A
COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO. THIS GUY WAS EXPOSING THIS
WHOLE PROJECT WHICH TOOK PLACE AGAINST ME.
HE WAS HOUNDED OUT OF PAKISTAN. HE ENDED UP GOING TO DO BY.
FROM THERE, HE WENT TO KENYA WHERE HE WAS KILLED.
THEY WERE TWO OF MY CLOSEST AIDES.
ONE WAS A SENATOR. HE WAS STRIPPED NAKED,
TORTURED. BOTH BLAMED THE SENIOR
INTELLIGENCE OFFICER WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE TORTURE.
LOOK, THE CLAMPDOWN THAT HAS TAKEN PLACE ON MEDIA IS
UNPRECEDENTED IN PAKISTAN. TO SUDDENLY THINK THAT YOU WILL
LIFT THE BAN ON ME, IT WOULD NOT HAVE WITHSTOOD AND A COURT
OF LAW. IN WHAT PLACES WHERE THEY
BANNED ME? BY THE WAY, HOW COME I, AS A
PERSON WHO WAS ABOUT TO BE ASSASSINATED, WHY CAN'T I NAME
THE PEOPLE WHO ARE SUSPICIOUS ABOUT WHO PLANNED THIS ATTEMPT
ON ME? >> YOU CONTINUE TO CALL THIS AN
ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. YOU SAY YOU HAD EVIDENCE IS
GOING TO HAPPEN BEFOREHAND. YOU SAY NOW THAT YOU WANT AN
INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION. I WONDER WHAT INFORMATION YOU
WERE GIVEN AND FROM WHO TO SUPPORT THOSE ALLEGATIONS?
>> NUMBER ONE, VICKY, ON THE 24TH OF SEPTEMBER, THERE WAS MY
PUBLIC SPEECH WHERE AS THE EVENTS UNFOLDED DURING THAT
SPEECH HOW THIS WOULD HAPPEN, HOW IN THE NAME OF BLASPHEMY A
RELIGIOUS FANATIC WOULD KILL ME AND THEY WOULD BLAME IT ON HIM.
ALL OF THIS WAS IN MY SPEECH WHICH I PUT ON TELEVISION AND
SOCIAL MEDIA. SECONDLY, REMEMBER THREE AND A
HALF YEARS AGO I WAS IN POWER. I HAVE CONNECTIONS WITH
INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES, THE DIFFERENT AGENCIES WHICH
OPERATE. HOW DID I GET THE INFORMATION?
FROM WITHIN THE INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES.
WHY? MOST PEOPLE ARE APPALLED BY
WHAT IS GOING ON IN THIS COUNTRY.
MOST PEOPLE THINK WHAT IS HAPPENING IN PAKISTAN IS
UNPRECEDENTED. I WAS A GENERAL OF MARTIAL LAW.
I WAS PUT IN JAIL. NEVER DID THE SORT OF
OPPRESSION THAT IS GOING ON RIGHT NOW IN PAKISTAN, IT NEVER
HAPPENED -- >> ALL RIGHT.
IMRAN KHAN, WE'VE RUN OUT OF TIME.
I THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE FORMER
PRIME MINISTER. LISTEN, SIR, WE WISH YOU A
SPEEDY RECOVERY.