Imran inciting PTI workers to create anarchy: Marriyum Aurangzeb

ISLAMABAD:  Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb has said, Lahore’s Zaman Park has become a target for challenges to and assaults on government institutions.

She said in an interview with BBC News that police had exercised tremendous restraint in order to carry out court orders to detain Imran Khan in corruption cases. On the other hand, she continued, he (Imran) was not only disobeying court orders but also encouraging his party members to foment anarchy. Marriyum Aurangzeb claimed that police were attacked with petrol bombs, sticks, and stones while they were without weapons. A total of 65 police officers, including DIG Operations, were hurt and hospitalized as a result of the criminal actions of PTI goons.

“Imran Khan is using party workers, women and children as human shields to avoid arrest and stoke unrest in the streets of Lahore”, she maintained.  The recent audio leak was proof that Imran Khan ordered his workers and senior party officials to procure petrol to use it as a weapon against the police contingent.  Imran Khan, she said was repeatedly given time by the courts but he did not appear and was, ” trying to influence the courts by his illegal action”.

“Imagine what would happen if a leader of a mainstream political party in Britain defies courts, and incites his party workers for violence while hiding himself at home” she questioned. She said instead of cooperating with law enforcement agencies Imran Khan was breaking the law.  Imran Khan cannot be allowed to create unrest and anarchy in the country, the minister maintained.