'Imran Khan not a politician, but a terrorist'.

While coming down hard on the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb has said that Imran Khan is not a politician but a 'terrorist', his Zaman Park residence is a bunker of terrorists and a laboratory for petrol bombs.

Addressing a press conference in Lahore on Sunday, she said that if the writ of the state, judiciary and police would be challenged, a civil war would erupt in the country.

The police job is to provide protection to the courts which are the guardian of justice, she added. 'If the courts compromise the police writ, then there will be a civil war in this country and every street of this country will have its own law.'

According to the federal minister, if Imran was allowed to flout the law, gangs, hooligans and terrorists would emerge from every street and attack courts and police. 'If you think that by giving protection and this concession to a 'Ladla' there will be a rule of law in this country, then you are wrong.'

The courts, she further said, have been summoning a person since August 23 last year but he did not appear and when the court ordered to arrest and produce the person, he instigated his followers to attack the judiciary.

Marriyum went on to say that it had never happened in the history of the country that a criminal was summoned to court and provided with the facility to make attendance from his car - referring to Imran Khan yesterday's appearance at Islamabad Judicial Complex where the judge allowed the former prime minister to mark his attendance from his car due to the violence that erupted inside the complex.

'Imran Khan who ruled and dominated this country for [nearly] four years had put all political opponents in death cells to settle political scores. He did not even spare sisters and daughters of political opponents and also got them arrested even from hospital beds.'

The PML-N leader further said that Khan during his misrule destroyed the national economy, made the people unemployed and deprived them of two timely meals.

During the PTI rule, she insisted, prices of edible items like flour and sugar, cooking oil and electricity and gas tariffs skyrocketed which hit the common man badly.

The minister alleged that this person had gone mad after losing power, and now from a political terrorist, he had become a terrorist attacking the state institutions.

She said when the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) government came to power last year, it had...