Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Spokesman Naeemul Haque warned the government on Wednesday that if it attempts to arrest party Chairman Imran Khan ‘it will face a harsh response’.

Naeem commented sarcastically, “If the government is itching to arrest him, it should do so.”

At a time when the PTI is once again planning a protest in the federal capital, an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) last week repeated warrants for the arrest of Imran Khan, Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) Chairman Tahirul Qadri and 70 others for attacking the state-run Pakistan television channel during the 2014 sit-in.

Despite the court’s orders, the PTI chief was accompanied to court on Wednesday under tight security by a heavy police contingent.

The PTI has announced to ‘lockdown’ Islamabad on November 2 if Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif doesn’t agree to an investigation into the Panama leaks – under the Terms of Reference (ToRs) proposed by the opposition or resigns from his position.

The spokesman further said that neither the PTI chief, nor any other party worker would ask for bail under ‘political’ cases.

“The government is declaring great leader as terrorists,” he claimed.

PTI Vice-Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi had earlier said that it could be T20, one-day or a five-day test match and if the government didn’t behave ‘we are even ready for a tournament’.