Political experts here Sunday claimed that former prime minister Imran Khan has allegedly orchestrated the Zaman Park”s PTI workers-Punjab police standoff plot in a bid to get people’s sympathies ahead of the Punjab Assembly election. ‘Following announcement of the election schedule for Punjab Assembly election by Election Commission, Imran Khan had allegedly chartered the Zaman Park”s standoff plot by using PTI workers against Punjab police in a bid to raise his dwindling popularity ahead of the polls,” said, Ikhtiar Wali Khan, PMLN spokesman while talking to APP on Sunday.
He said Imran has used PTI enraged workers including women and children as human shields at Zaman Park to avoid his possible arrest and created obstruction in the official work of Punjab police on several occasions. As a result of the provoked aggression of the PTI, he said that scores of policemen and law enforcers including officers were critically injured. The PTI workers had challenged institutions including police by attacking the law enforcers in Zaman Park on a number of occasions, resultantly many cops were hospitalized.
He said Punjab police has shown maximum restraint and professionalism that averted untoward incidents during Zaman Park’s skirmishes despite repeated attacks and hooliganism by the PTI workers. Inspite of thrashing of police, he said that not a single shot has been fired by the law enforcers and previous lives saved despite PTI workers’ violence that earned bad name for the country.
PTI leadership has tried hard to defame Punjab government and Lahore police by provoking the law enforcers but completely failed in its negative designs, he said. He said the valiant cops have effectively dealt the difficult situation erupted after the PTI workers have pelted police with stones and slingshot, setting police vehicles on fire and ransacking public properties during clashes outside Imran residence at Lahore.
He claimed that the recent audio leak has proved that PTI supporters were ordered by the party leadership to procure petrol to use it as a weapon against the police and law enforcers. In democratic societies, he said political leaders were not afraid of jails and faced court trials with courage. He deplored the appearance of Imran along with thousands of his supporters in the judicial complex Islamabad and clashes of PTI workers with police on Saturday.—APP
