Islamabad:  PML-N Senior Vice President Maryam Nawaz Sharif has asked the federal government of Pakistan to treat former PM Imran Khan-led PTI as a 'terrorist organization'.

“The way the government, the state deals with a banned organisation, a terrorist organisation, Imran Khan should be dealt with in the same way. Thinking of it (PTI) as a political party and dealing with it as a political party needs to end,” she was quoted as saying by Dawn News.

She said that PTI Chairman Imran Khan was now amenable to talks with the government after all his tactics had failed.

“The government should deal with them in the same way it deals with terrorists," she said.

She made the comment at a time when Imran Khan was resisting his arrest in the Toshakhana case.

“After the foreign funding case, I have no doubt that he (Imran) was launched to spread civil unrest and anarchy in Pakistan,” Maryam said.

“What do terrorists do when they are planning to carry out terrorism? They hide in caves and pass orders from there," she said.

“In political and democratic movements […] we have always seen that political leaders or the party head leads from the front. He is at the front and the people come out behind him," she said.