ISLAMABAD: Ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday returned to his residence Bani Gala by helicopter after staying in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for weeks to avoid a possible arrest.
The PTI Chairman is chairing a meeting of the party’s core committee at his residence in Islamabad today.
Imran Khan has returned to the federal capital after a gap of around two weeks. He had left for Peshawar after the Multan rally on May 20 during which he announced the date for the Haqiqi Azadi March.
He led the march from Peshawar and returned to the city after surprisingly calling it off on May 26.
Earlier in the day, PTI leader Shehbaz Gill in a tweet said, “Sanaullah is constantly threatening Imran Khan to enter Islamabad. It seems that you [Sanaullah] have considered Imran Khan Nawaz Sharif who will run away in fear. Khan will chair the core committee meeting in Bani Gala today at 3pm. Imran Khan’s life and death is Pakistan.”
“Arrest [Imran Khan] and then see the outcome,” he challenged the interior minister.
On Sunday morning after Imran Khan’s return to Bani Gala was confirmed by the party leaders, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah “welcomed” the ex-premier.
In a tweet, he said that the former prime minister was being given security according to the law.
However, he added that the “same” security personnel would gracefully arrest Imran Khan on the expiry of his pre-arrest bail.
Sanaullah said, “Imran Niazi has been named in more than two dozen cases registered across the country under charges of rioting, sedition, spreading chaos, and armed attacks on the federation.”
It is worth mentioning here that Peshawar High Court (PHC) has granted pre-arrest bail to Imran Khan in 14 cases registered against him after PTI long march toward Islamabad last month.
