ISLAMABAD – A day after Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senior VicePresident Maryam Nawaz urged the federal government to treat the PakistanTehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) as a ‘terrorist organization’, Interior Minister RanaSanuallah said the government would consult the legal team to assesswhether a process could be initiated to declare the PTI proscribed.
Addressing a press conference, Sanaullah said that terrorists were hidingin Zaman Park. Weapons, petrol bombs, bullets and other things wererecovered from the residence of Imran Khan which was enough evidence tofile a reference against the PTI, he added.
Sana said that it is a judicial process to declare any party proscribed.However, we will consult our legal team in this regard, he added.
Earlier, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif took to Twitter and criticized ImranKhan. He said, “PTI operates like India’s RSS.”
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“If anyone had any doubt, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Niazi’santics of the last few days laid bare his fascist and militant tendencies.From using people as human shields to throwing petrol bombs at police toleading ‘jathas’ to intimidate judiciary, he (Imran) has taken a leaf outof the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) book,” PM Shehbaz said in a tweet.