Can provide in writing I never broke the law, claims Imran.

LAHORE -- Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Thursday said he never broke the law during his lifetime and he could provide that in writing.

His statement comes in the wake of a intermittent episodes of stalemate between the police, later flanked by Rangers, and PTI activists amid fears of his arrest in connection with the Toshakhana case.

Addressing the party workers outside his residence at Zaman Park, he said the law enforcement agencies attacked him and his party workers as if they were terrorists. 'I ask them to furnish a single instance where I broke the law', he added. They came to arrest, he said, the leader of the biggest political party in Pakistan. The policemen did all this just for the sake of securing their jobs, he continued.

He said he was on protective bail until March 18 but the police arrived on March 14 instead. 'The LHC also asked the police what they were doing there before March 18', he added. What they were intended to do was, he said, what they did to PTI leaders Azam Swati, and Shehbaz Gill. he urged to look at the postmortem report to know what treatment they meted out to PTI worker Ali Bilal alias Zill-e-Shah.

He went on to say that they were not here to implement the arrest plan but just to carry forward Nawaz Sharif's wish of putting him behind bars. 'They fear that I might come into power after winning the elections', he added. What their plan was, he said, put Imran in jail for different cases and win elections in his absence.

He said Punjab IG Police first registered a murder case against him for killing the PTI worker and later claimed that Mr Shah died in an accident...

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