Imran's 'fascist and militant tendencies' laid bare: PM.

LAHORE -- After days of boiling tensions and escalating violence, which culminated in the raid on Zaman Park on Saturday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that if anyone had any doubt, PTI Chairman Imran Khan's 'antics' of the last past few days had 'laid bare his fascist and militant tendencies'.

On his Twitter handle, the premier said, 'From using people as human shields to throwing petrol bombs at police to leading 'jathas' to intimidate judiciary, he (Imran) has taken a leaf out of the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) book.'

Separately, Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb, while addressing a press conference, said that all state institutions were responsible for the establishment of the writ of the government.

Allowing the accused to come to courts with crowds would give a message that the justice system and law in Pakistan were afraid of terrorists, thugs, goons, threats and abuses, she added.

The minister claimed that Imran was not afraid of playing with national interests, hatching conspiracies and blatantly violating the law and the Constitution of Pakistan.

The federal government also indicated initiating the legal procedure to ban the former ruling party.

Federal Minister for Interior Rana Sanaullah, while addressing a presser at the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz's (PML-N) secretariat in Model Town, Lahore, said that enough things have come to light to file a reference against PTI, and PML-N's legal team is now considering. He added that a party can only be banned through the courts.

He said that the Punjab Police acted in a no-go area with the help of other law enforcement agencies. 'A so-called political leader had created an atmosphere of fear,' he said, taking a jibe at Imran, and added that he was running a movement to avoid jail 'as a woman'.

He said that when there was 'resistance' to the compliance of the court's order, the impression was strengthened that there might be a terrorist organisation there. He added that 65 persons had been arrested from outside of the former prime minister's house, most of whom do not belong to Punjab and their role is 'suspicious', while weapons, grenades, and petrol bomb-making equipment were also recovered from there.

Sanaullah claimed that Imran's aim is to spread sedition and anarchy in the country, and he had been 'pursuing his agenda for the last 10 years'. He added that the PTI chief was 'willing to riot' even when he was in the government.

The PML-N...