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PTI Chairman Imran Khan has said that the attack on Jinnah House in Lahore was “stage-managed by those who wanted to use this as a pretext to further crackdown on PTI, jail our workers and senior leadership along with me so that the assurances given to Nawaz Sharif in the London plan could be honoured”.

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