islamabadInformation and Broadcasting Minister Maryam Aurangzeb said that former Prime Minister of Pakistan and Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan is not a politician but a terrorist. Petrol bomb, reported Geo News. Addressing a press conference on Sunday, Aurangzeb alleged that Khan had gone mad after losing power in April last year and has now turned politician-turned-terrorist, who is attacking the institution of the state.
He further said that the main job of the police is to provide security to the courts which are the custodians of justice but if the orders of the state, judiciary and security enforcers are compromised, civil war will break out in the country.
According to the federal minister, if Imran is allowed to flout the law, gangs, goons and terrorists will emerge from every street and attack courts and police. “If you think that giving protection and this concession to a ‘laadla’ will lead to rule of law in this country, then you are wrong.”
He further said that the courts have been summoning a person since August 23 last year, but he did not appear and when the court ordered him to be arrested and produced, he instigated his followers to attack the judiciary, Geo News told.
Maryam further said that it had never happened in the country’s history that a criminal was summoned to the court and given the facility to attend in his own car – referring to Imran Khan’s appearance at the Islamabad judicial complex yesterday Where the judge allowed the former prime minister to mark his presence in his car due to the violence that broke out inside the premises.
“Imran Khan who ruled and ruled this country [nearly] Four years had put all political opponents in the death cell to settle political scores. They didn’t even spare the sisters and daughters of political opponents and got them arrested from the hospital beds as well.”
The PML-N leader further said that Khan destroyed the national economy during his misrule, rendering people jobless and depriving them of two meals a day. He asserted that during the PTI regime, prices of food items like flour and sugar, cooking oil and electricity skyrocketed, affecting the common man badly.
She said that when the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) government came to power last year, it had the power and authority to arrest Imran Khan, but she did not want Khan to allow her to “play the victim card”, as That has been told in the report of Geo News. ,
The statement came after chaos broke out at the PTI chairman’s Zaman Park residence – where party supporters and law enforcers were locked in a standoff for over 14 hours – over the arrest of the former prime minister.
Earlier, a Pakistan court on Saturday quashed Khan’s arrest warrant in the Toshakhana case and adjourned the hearing till March 30, The Express Tribune reported.
Stating that the situation was not conducive for the hearing, Additional Sessions Judge Zafar Iqbal directed former Prime Minister Imran Khan to ensure his presence in the next hearing scheduled for March 30. G-11 outside judicial complex amid unrest between police and party supporters, reports The Express Tribune.
Khan left for Lahore without getting out of his bullet-proof vehicle at the gate of the judicial complex.