Left Imran Khan’s dwelling after having ‘water, biscuits’: Aide on Pak cops’ search

By Press Trust of India: Punjab Police who visited Imran Khan’s Zaman Park residence proper right here to conduct a search operation to arrest “terrorists” reportedly hiding there have returned with solely “water and biscuits”, former Pakistan prime minister’s chief security officer said on Friday.

A delegation comprising Lahore Commissioner Muhammad Ali Randhawa, Lahore Deputy Commissioner Rafia Haider, DIG Operations Sadiq Dogar and SSP Operations Sohaib, met Khan, the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) social gathering to hold negotiations with him, in keeping with the Dawn newspaper.

The switch comes hours after Punjab Police obtained warrants to conduct an in depth search at Khan’s residence.

According to the Punjab Police assertion, the search would embody an intensive examination of every the doorway and exit elements of the residence, with the primary aim of discovering “terrorists” hiding on the place, the Dawn newspaper reported.

Khan’s chief security officer Iftikhar Ghuman, nonetheless, said the Punjab police have returned from Zaman Park “empty-handed”, the report said.

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Talking to journalists exterior Khan’s residence, Ghuman said: “I think they have understood that there is nothing here. The only thing they got here was water and biscuits.”

“We opened the doors of the house for them in front of you. Now you ask them what they got,” he added.

On Wednesday, the Punjab government claimed that “30 to 40 terrorists were hiding inside Khan’s residence,” and gave an ultimatum of 24 hours to his party to hand over the miscreants.

However, no action was taken after the deadline expired on Thursday.

Meanwhile, Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Bilal Saddique Kamyana claimed to have arrested six more “terrorists” attempting to flee from Khan’s Zaman Park residence.

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On Friday, an anti-terrorism court docket docket proper right here authorised pre-arrest bail till June 2 to Khan in three terrorism circumstances filed in opposition to Pakistan’s former prime minister inside the wake of violence that erupted after his arrest on May 9.

In a video-link take care of from his Zaman Park residence proper right here on Wednesday, Khan said Pakistan is heading in path of an imminent disaster and it may face disintegration. On May 9, Khan was arrested by the paramilitary Pakistan Rangers on the Islamabad High Court premises that triggered unrest in Pakistan.

For the first time in Pakistan’s historic previous, the protesters stormed the army headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi and likewise torched a corps commander’s dwelling in Lahore.

Police put the dying toll in violent clashes to 10, whereas Khan’s social gathering claims 40 of its workers misplaced their lives inside the firing by security personnel.

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On Monday, the very best navy brass vowed to convey the arsonists, who attacked the civil and navy installations, to justice via trial beneath associated authorized pointers of the nation, along with the Pakistan Army Act and Official Secrets Act.

Law enforcement companies have arrested over 7,000 PTI workers all through Pakistan, 4,000 of them from Punjab.

Meanwhile, Lahore police claimed to have arrested 14 “terrorists” who had been trying to flee from Khan’s Zaman Park residence.

Khan, the cricketer-turned-politician, was ousted from power in April closing yr after dropping a no-confidence vote in his administration, which he alleged was part of a US-led conspiracy specializing in him attributable to his neutral worldwide protection picks on Russia, China and Afghanistan.