They want to take me to Balochistan, treat me like Gill and Swati: Imran

PTI chief says he was ready to appear in court on Saturday but government resorted to violence

Imran Khan, the chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has claimed that the government wants to take him to Balochistan so that they can treat him in a similar way they treated PTI leaders Shahbaz Gill and Azam Swati.

Imran in the past has several times accused the incumbent government of resorting to extreme violence against the two party leaders in custody. Both were arrested on sedition charges in different cases.

"They wanted to pick me up and take me straight to Balochistan... they want to treat me like Shahbaz Gil and Azam Swati, which is transparent to everyone," he said during his hearing today in Lahore High Court (LHC) according to Express News.

Imran said that he was ready to appear in court on Saturday but the government resorted to violence and attacked his Zaman Park residence in Lahore.

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"There has been an assassination attempt on me, therefore, my only request to the court is to transfer the Islamabad court case to some other court," he said.

He assured the court that he believed in the rule of law and has never broken any law in his life. "Even the interior minister has expressed concerns over threats to my life."

"The place where the [Islamabad] court is located is not secured ... it is located in a narrow street where judges too have been attacked in the past," he maintained.

He lashed out at the government for resorting to force at his residence. "What happened at my house has never happened before and I cannot even describe it in words. Things were out of my hands. They came with an entire army as if they wanted to conquer Kashmir."