Pakistan Minister for Defense, Khawaja Muhammad Asif came up with a different statement and accused Mr. Khan of complicating his arrest while in the past several politicians went to the court for clarifications.<\/p>\n
Alghouth, he said that the government is ready to hold a comprehensive dialogue with Khan, but said the government would not oblige by entering into any transactional dialogue with the opposition, as nothing would come out of it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe assumed this govt. almost a year back. We are completing one year in power as a result of the successful vote of no confidence against the then government,\u201d Khawaja Asif said.<\/p>\n
\u201cImran Khan\u2019s political journey started with a cypher,\u201d Asif said, adding that nowhere in the world an accused had ever refused to appear in the court.”<\/p>\n
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Pakistan defense minister, Khawaja Asif<\/p><\/div>\n
A large number of supporters for Mr. Khan had resisted his arrest and engaged in intensive clashes with the police. Pakistani police also arrested dozens of PTI workers and supporters for standing against the law and disruption of law and order.<\/p>\n
Finally, Khan appeared in the court while his supporters were gathered in front of the court and was ready to attack if the decision was against him.<\/p>\n
Minister Asif alleged that every time he (Khan) appeared in the courts, the judiciary was intimidated.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe sent police to arrest Khan, but they were attacked in which 70 to 80 police officers received injuries. They pitched a battle outside his (Imran Khan\u2019s) house. This has never happened in Pakistan,\u201d Asif said.<\/p>\n
Khan is not first opposition to face court<\/strong><\/p>\n Asif said that during Mr. Khan\u2019s tenure and in the past also opposition workers and leaders were arrested and they were produced to the court in a very graceful and dignified manner as political workers.<\/p>\n He said that these leaders had never contested their arrest physically, never abused and maligned the courts, and during Khan\u2019s rule as Prime Minister, almost the whole of the top leadership of PML-N was arrested.<\/p>\n \u201cOur leader Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif got arrested when he came back from the UK to surrender, his daughter, sons and nephews were arrested. But they never resisted their arrest,\u201d Asif quoted by APP.<\/p>\n The Minister while sharing his account claimed that he got picked up from Embassy Road and remained in jail for almost six months. \u201cAlmost for three years my wife and sons appeared in court.\u201d<\/p>\n Asif said that the victimization of the opposition was unprecedented in Khan\u2019s era and said that they have seen that when politicians were victimized during martial law and military governments.<\/p>\n Only one can exist<\/strong><\/p>\n Pakistan\u2019s Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said that Mr. Khan has brought the \u201cnation\u2019s politics to a point where only one of us can exist.\u201d<\/p>\n In an interview with a local news channel, Sanaullah said \u201cwhen we feel our existence is being threatened, we will go to a point where we will not bother whether a move is democratic or not.\u201d<\/p>\n He called Mr. Khan as \u201cenemy\u201d and said that there will be no normalcy or political stability in the country so long as the \u201cPTI party chief exists\u201d.<\/p>\n Khan\u2019s party has immediately reacted to Sanaullah’s comment calling it \u201cincendiary remarks\u201d against his party.<\/p>\n Speaking to Al Jazeera, the party\u2019s leader Taimur Jhagra said \u201ca fight to the death? This is not an ordinary person talking but Pakistan\u2019s interior minister. In any other country, he would have been made to resign.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNo one from the government has contradicted (the remarks). No one has apologized. This exposes their real political values, and in a sad way, is also an honest admission of how afraid they are of Imran Khan.\u201d<\/p>\n Since his removal from power in April last year, Khan had frequently taken to the streets and organized nationwide rallies to pressurize the government to agree for early national elections. He even received bullets in his leg at one such rally in November.<\/p>\n Khan had frequently alleged the incumbent government of the Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the military establishment to either assassinate or put him in jail before general elections due to later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Pakistani government has shown green signal to hold a political dialogue with Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan to bring down political heat and restore calmness back to the country. The likely negotiation is about to take place for the sake of peace and also opening the door for major consensus on defining issues that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[641,1273,712,503,690,606,1260,1085,628],"class_list":["post-2477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","tag-clashes","tag-defense","tag-elections","tag-headline","tag-police","tag-political-issues","tag-political-party","tag-protests","tag-security"],"yoast_head":"\n