Negotiation team leaves Imran Khan’s Zaman Park residence

 A Punjab government delegation has left Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan's Zaman Park residence after completing negotiations with the former prime minister and his legal team, reported 24NewsHD Tv channel.

The government’s negotiation team present at Zaman Park Friday held negotiations with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan for one and a half hour, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.

The government team handed over all the evidence related to the terrorists to the Zaman Park administration.

The police and the administration were not given permission for the search operation as Imran Khan laid the conditions for the search operation.

Commissioner Lahore also handed over the list of terrorists to Imran Khan.

The delegation told Imran Khan that many terrorists were caught from here while fleeing and many have been driven away from here.

Imran Khan was also briefed about the 2,200 terrorists who attacked military installations on May 9 and handed over the evidence.

He was told about his PTI leadership who were directly involved in the attacks.

PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s chief security officer has said that the Punjab police have returned from Zaman Park “empty-handed”.

Talking to journalists outside the former prime minister’s residence, Iftikhar Ghuman said: “I think they have understood that there is nothing here. The only thing they got here was water and biscuits. We opened the doors of the house for them in front of you. Now you ask them what they got.”

Earlier, Police officers and officials of law enforcement agencies led by Commissioner Lahore Muhammad Ali Randhawa Friday reached Zaman Park after obtaining the search warrants for Imran Khan’s residence.

DC Lahore Rafia Haider, DIG Operations Sadiq Ali Khokhar, and SSP Operations Soheb Ashraf are accompanying Commissioner Lahore. A heavy contingent of police is also accompanying Commissioner Lahore while lady police personnel are also part of the search operation team.

Earlier, it was reported that the search team will conduct a thorough search of Imran Khan's five-kanal house and All interior and upper parts of Imran Khan's residence will be searched.

However, Punjab Information Minister Amir Mir in a tweet said that no operation is carried out at the moment. He said instead a team has reached Imran Khan's residence to set SOPs for the search operation.

The search operation is being conducted on reports of the presence of 40 miscreants in the house of Chairman PTI Imran Khan.

Earlier in the day, Punjab Police obtained warrants from the court to carry out a search at former prime minister Imran Khan's residence.

The development comes after the Punjab government decided to send a team to hold talks with the PTI leadership before conducting the search operation at Zaman Park.

The Punjab government on Wednesday had claimed that "30-40 terrorists were hiding inside Imran Khan's residence" and gave 24 hours to PTI to hand over these miscreants or face action.

However, no action was taken after the deadline expired on Thursday.

Later, Punjab Information Minister Amir Mir said that law enforcers will conduct a search operation at Imran Khan's residence after his permission and in front of cameras to apprehend "terrorists".

"We [the interim government] have decided that instead of a head-on collision, we will send a delegation to Khan sahab under the supervision of the Lahore commissioner," Mir told Geo News.

"They will ask him [Khan] to allow them to conduct a search operation. A police party — comprising 400 personnel — will accompany the delegation as there is a reported presence of terrorists," he said.