Imran Khan vows to move court against ‘illegal’ Zaman Park raid

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan condemned the police raid on his residence in Zaman Park and vowed to raise the matter in courts.

In series on tweets, the former prime minister announced to take legal action against the violation of sanctity of the veil and the household.

“The assault on my house today was first of all a contempt of court,” he said, adding that police raided his house without a search warrant.

“We had agreed that an SP with one of our people would implement a search warrant because we knew otherwise they would plant stuff on their own, which they did,” he claimed.

Imran Khan questioned the authorities under which law they broke the gate, pull down trees and barged into the house. He said much worse, police raided his house after he left to present himself before the Islamabad court.

“Bushra bibi, a totally private non-political person, was alone in the house. This is a total violation of the Islamic principle of sanctity of chadar & char diwari [veil and walls],” Khan stated.

He said that the contempt issue, violation of the sanctity of the home and the violence against his workers and domestic staff will be raised in court.

The assault on my house today was first of all a contempt of court. We had agreed that an SP with one of our people would implement a search warrant bec we knew otherwise they would plant stuff on their own, which they did. Under what law did they break the gate, pull down trees pic.twitter.com/110uTeIlce

— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) March 18, 2023

Earlier today, PTI Senior Vice President Fawad Chaudhry also termed the police action in Zaman Park a “violation of the LHC order” and vowed to move the court seeking contempt of court proceedings against the Punjab IG and other police officials.

He said the raid was conducted on the insistence of PML-N chief organizer Maryam Nawaz, whom he claimed ha hijacked the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) alliance.

He said instead of focusing on inflation, and foreign and economic policies, the government was wasting its energies to arrest Imran Khan.

The PTI leader said that Imran Khan’s wife, sisters, and domestic staff were at home when the police raided the former prime minister’s house and harassed them.

PTI leader Shireen Mazari said termed the incident in Zaman Park as “state terrorism” being conduced by the fascist government.  “This is a London plan and part odf a a scheme to bring Maryam into power,” she said.

The PTI leader accused Punjab IGP of telling blatant lies faking evidence. She said police broke into the house while carrying weapons.

Police allegedly recovered assault rifles and a cache of bullets from Imran Khan’s Zaman Park residence in a search operation and detained over 60 party workers.