LAHORE -UNS: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said Friday that, unlike the authorities’ earlier claim, they were not looking for terrorists but only people who were “wanted” at his Zaman Park residence in Lahore.
“Now, they are claiming that they are hunting down wanted people and not terrorists,” Khan told journalists at his residence after meeting a government delegation that came to his house for mulling over the SOPs for a search operation.
Punjab Caretaker Information Minister Amir Mir said the law enforcers wanted to search the PTI chief’s residence as geofencing showed “30-40 terrorists” — involved in attacking military installations — were hiding over there.
But when the team — headed by the Lahore commissioner — held meetings with Khan and his legal team, they could not make any breakthrough and arrived at a “deadlock” as the PTI chief refused to allow them to search his house.
“If they want to search for wanted men, then they already have them. They have arrested 7,500 of our ‘wanted’ workers,” Khan said, claiming that anyone associated with his party was a “wanted person” right now.
“I told them: come inside and look for yourself, there’s no wanted person here.”
Permission?
Punjab’s interim information minister told Geo News’ Shahzad Iqbal that Khan wants only “four police personnel” to search his house despite the delegation showing him a list of 2,200 people.
