Booked for terrorism, Imran says ready to talk to anyone.

LAHORE -- Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan was booked under charges of terArorism as he incited violence at Zaman Park when a police party reached his residence to execute court orders, accordAing to an FIR registered against him at Lahore's Racecourse police station.

A case was registered against the PTI chairman Imran Khan and other party leaders on Wednesday at the Racecourse police station on the complaint of SHO Rehan Anwar.

According to the FIR, a copy of which is available with the Nation, the PTI chairman and other party leaders have been booked under 20 different secAtions of the Anti-Terrorism Act.

These sections are related to interferAence in the state affairs, illegal gatherAings and refusing to receive court sumAmons. The FIR states that hundreds of party workers and supporters commitAted serious crimes after getting a nod from Imran Ahmad Khan Niazi. The parAty activists have been accused of damAaging state properties and using petrol bombs on the behest of the party chief. Meanwhile, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan Thursday eulogized his party youth and women who faced the alleged police fascism at Zaman Park courageously to thwart their bid to arrest him and added that he was ready to talk to anyone and renAder any sacrifice to get the country out of the prevailing crisis.

'I want to express my heartfelt gratAitude to the people of Pakistan who joined us in the struggle for true freeAdom and to our workers from all over Pakistan, including Lahore,' he said while addressing the party workers at Zaman Park. The PTI chairman said that he would not step away from any sacrifice for the sake of the country's development, interests and democracy.

'In this regard, I am willing to talk to anyone and take every step towards it,' he added. The PTI chairman laudAed the youth of his party who faced the alleged police fascism at Zaman Park courageously. 'The passion of our workers for Haqeeqii Azadi was someAthing I prayed Almighty Allah would instill in our nation one day. Only naAtions with youth who value freedom above life achieve great things. When rule of law protects their fundamental rights and their minds are unshackled from an inferiority complex, they soar above humanity as the great Iqbal enAvisaged in the concept of his Shaheen,' he observed.

Imran Khan thanked the people of Pakistan who joined the struggle for 'real freedom' and his party's workAers from all over Pakistan, including...