In an uncivilized turn of events, the chief of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Imran Khan was manhandled at the Punjab University Campus today. He was later arrested by the police. A group of students kept him detained on the campus and later turned him over to the police. According to Dawn’s Report:
Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf chairman Imran Khan was arrested from outside the Punjab University’s new campus on Wednesday after he had been manhandled and detained in the campus allegedly by activists of the Islami Jamiat Talaba. Imran Khan had gone to the university at the invitation of a joint action committee of students.
The visit had been approved by Qazi Hussain Ahmed, chief of Jamaat-i-Islami, to which the IJT is affiliated. On his arrival at the campus, the PTI chief was confronted reportedly by a group of IJT activists who kicked him around and punched him. They took him to a room in the Centre for High Energy Physics and detained him there for about 45 minutes.
This is an interesting (and sad) turn of events. Imran Khan‘s party and the mother party of IJT are both partners in APDM. Imran and Qazi have been seen together in many media photo shoots for the past year or so. Will today’s action by IJT guys will cause long term bad-blood between the two parties? It is left to be seen.
We strongly believe that inspite of political differences, no person deserves physical bashing and humiliation as was met out to Imran. Political differences should never be taken to such extreme where people use force to get their point across. It is wrong. Shame on those who manhandled him. I was recently reading an article on political bashing in the Wall Street Journal. It had a punch line which just kept resonating with me. It read:
Our politics suffer when passions overcome reason and vitriol becomes virtue.
Details on Imran‘s manhandling can be read here, here, here and here.
“Final test”
Sorry, can you list these options somewhere on your site, i think it will be very helpfull for quotes etc.
@The Mushi’st seculars and liberals leftists are doing
ghundagurdi in election commission and its
tricked and doubtfull electoral lists. The must leave PU, have
no choice, or they will be thrown out.
Jamiat doing ghundagardee and breaking rules in PU again;
http://www.express.com.pk/epaper/Article.aspx?newsID=1100310734&Date=20071205&Issue=NP_LHE
A little too late for Jammat Islami to call itself democratic after supporting every dictator from Yahya Kahn to Musharaf. Jamiat has just become too embarrassing even for a pro-dictatorship Jamaat Islami hence Qazi’s condemnation.
Deewana Aik,
All the authentic democrates act in the same way,
correction is the basic democracy, not covering up
or hiding away the crimes.
“@ Imran Khan is with APDM, not with Mushy,BB
or MQM,…”
…and APDM’s Qazi Hussein Ahmad blames Jamiat for ghundagardee;
http://tinyurl.com/2zkl35
Please let Mush know
Chashma laga ke bhi kum dekhte hain.