KARACHI: Federal Minister for Poverty Alleviation and Social Saftey, Shazia Atta Marri, said on Thursday that Chairman Pakistan Tehrek-e-Insaf Imran Khan had promoted the culture of hurling abuses and violence in the country.

She said that Imran Khan was responsible for instigating the people to take law into their hands, she said in a message on her Twitter account today. Marri said that Imran Khan’s disregard for law and the institutions of the state had hurt the country.

She added that violence in the name of protest could not be acceptable by any state or society. She further said that Imran had put his own children far away from the violent protest and they were enjoying a comfortable life in a foreign land while this arrogant person was trying to spoil peaceful environment available to our children in the country.

She said that Imran Khan was simply a self-centered bigot who would do anything to satisfy his false ego, and he was inciting his party workers to break the law of the country for the sake of his ego and once again for the sake of gaining his power.