Will make 'full effort' to arrest Imran after judicial complex attack: Sana.

ISLAMABAD -- Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Wednesday said that 'full effort' would be made to arrest Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan after the 'intolerable' attack on the judicial complex.

During a presser in Islamabad, the minister questioned what kind of politics was taking place within the judicial complex, adding that if anyone committed violence in the judicial complex they would be tried under the Anti-Terrorism Act.

His statement comes shortly after another case was lodged against hundreds of PTI workers, including Imran Khan, for alleged vandalism outside Islamabad's judicial complex.

PTI leaders Ghulam Sarwar, Farrukh Habib, Shibli Faraz, Tahir Sadiq, Raja Basharat, Shahzad Wasim, Murad Saeed and Abdul Qudous Khan Swati are also named among the accused.

According to the case details, a group of 2,800 'armed PTI workers stormed the judicial complex under the leadership of Imran Khan'.

The FIR stated that the workers were carrying firearms, stones and sticks, adding that they also tore the cause lists of the courts.

'The workers broke court benches and chairs of security staff and also threatened to kill the security staff,' it claimed.

Sana stated that the way the judiciary was 'tolerating' Imran's disdainful attitude, he could easily appear before the court with a couple of guards, instead of a mob of people.

According to the minister, Imran came to the complex with criminal intent and that it was 'not a difficult task' to gather a few thousand people to attack the complex. He maintained that attacking courts was an act of terrorism and two cases had been lodged over the incident.

'So far, 29 people have been arrested and 200 people have been named,' he detailed. Sana...

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