Lahore: Punjab Caretaker Information Minister Amir Mir said on Thursday that law enforcement will search Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s Lahore home with his approval and in front of cameras to catch “terrorists.”
“We [the interim government] have decided that instead of a head-on collision, we will send a delegation to Khan sahab under the supervision of the Lahore commissioner,” told Amir mir
The minister gave the head of the PTI 24 hours to hand over “30–40 terrorists” who were in his Zaman Park home. That limit passed at 2 p.m. today.
Mir said that Punjab Caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi held a meeting where it decided that Khan’s team would make an appointment for the group to meet with Khan tomorrow after Friday prayers.
“They will ask him [Khan] for permission to do a check. “A 400-person police party will go with the delegation because there are rumours that terrorists are there,” he said.
Khan had also asked the police to do a job at his house, but he told them they needed to bring proper search warrants.
“If he doesn’t let the delegation search, we’ll decide what to do, but for now we want things to go well,” the minister said.
‘Khan’s jokes’
The head of the PTI also worried that the police didn’t do the operation because they wanted to “plant” people at his house and show them as terrorists later, but the minister said that everything would now be done in front of cameras.
“You shouldn’t pay much attention to Khan’s jokes. How are we going to send 40 people over there? “He’s talking nonsense,” the minister said again and again.
The acting minister said that the government doesn’t have any plans to arrest Khan right now. He also told Khan to stop spreading rumours that he’s going to arrested.
“We have no plans to arrest Khan, no matter what he says. Even if we don’t come to take him into custody, someone else will. He shouldn’t talk right now about arrested.”
They caught eight attackers.
According to Amir Mir, just before they talked that the police had caught eight terrorists who were trying to leave Zaman Park.
“Eight attackers who were in Zaman Park have been caught. We are looking into them and asking questions, like who might be hiding in the house.
He said that the 24 hour deadline helped the police catch these guys as they were leaving Zaman Park.
“We call them terrorists because they were involved in the Lahore Corps Commander House,” he said.
“We know that some of the people who carried out the attacks are hiding in the houses next to Khan’s.”
