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.
Aqil, is there any mention of a date when General Pakistan is leaving for Saudi Arabia?
Also, Dawn News formally announced Soomro as the caretaker PM. He will take oath under the PCO tomorrow; curiously he also remains the senate chairman.
Sayef, tasweer ka dosra rukh bhe dekh bhai.
FYI, NONE of Pvt channels are being any kind of Ad these days. Do remember that AAJ or any other channel is run by robots. I am sure that despite of having infinite money, employees would have been targeted by management by not giving them salaries or any other benefits.
It’s a capitalist world my friend. Owners just want money in pocket. Izzat tu ani jani wali cheez hay. ;)
Shame on you for jumping the gun on Aaj Tv. Do you have any evidence that they struck a deal with Musharraf? Have you read the text of the Code of Conduct?
Aaj TV’s deal with musharraf
Reportedly Aaj TV is back on the airwaves. Is this without any deal with musharraf. I don’t think so. In fact we don’t think so. Aaj TV must have compromised its position on the dectator’s dictatorial and whimsical actions. Shame on Aaj TV on its betrayal of the people of Pakistan and the other struggling journalists. Aaj TV has just acted like notorius Islami Jamiat-e-Tulaba, who did its best to foil the protest against the most hated dectator of the day.
Aaj TV would find it hard to re-gain its reputation free media serving nothing but truth.
Its shame for us to treat our heroes in theat manner. I smell some hidden hands have exploited the IJT.
The sad event proved beyond the shadow of doubt that JTI are in bed with the establishment.
I have personal experience of Jamiat goos, this is what they do, Punjab university new campus at least when i was in Lahore was not a center for learning but a place For Jamiat Gundas . Shame on them and JI,I hope Qazi and Ameer UL azeem get the message and also at some point get the same treatment
PU witnesses largest ever anti-jamiat protests
posted by Hasan Mubarak at 8:12 PM on November 15, 2007
http://lahore.metblogs.com/