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.
D_A_N,
@ JI and IJT
your are still living in Ayub’s & Bhutto’s era, 52 years
ago your predecessors used the same cacophony, just
check newspapers, and magasines, in my capacity I
don’t think I should bring out the old litrature on Ayub’s
(dead) regime and his legacy, zuriates. e.g.
Arch enemies of JI ,
Don’t know Altaf Gauher is still alive, Shaikh Masood Sadiq, Kauser Niazi,(PPP’s Mullah), JUI’s G.G.Hazarvi, and
Mufti Mehmood etc. etc. you bring them out, I shall bring
my late Uncle, Shorish Kashmiri OK ? solid knock-out
guaranteed, I hope ATP will permit this “Danggel ” ?
I will defend JI, IJT, Imran Khan, Nawaz Shareef, and all others pro-Constitution of Pakistan, we have to tolerate Left
and their accolites as democracy obliges.
D_A_N
@ I had given you the answers from UNO but they were sensored (not like your comments, alas)
your aguments are Wawellas and syappas nothing
else, the left is only capable to do that.
Well, as it is between your BB, Mushy & Uncle Sam !!
life among three !!!
http://lahore.metblogs.com/archives/2007/11/antiij t_protest_1.phtml
Rafay Kashmiri, A couple of things. If you don’t have an argument try not polluting these pages. 2nd, this is not between IJT and Imran, it is between all the forces of democracy and this tyrant and his goons, whether it be the agencies or those working for them.
@ Rafay Kashmiri…
so this is what the intellecutal defence of the Jamat-e-Jahili….
that this is between Imran and Jamat-e-Jahili….??
are you serious? Do I detect serious argument erosion and ‘falsehood fatigue’
then why be so worked up about the judiciary…it was between Mush and the Judiciary!!!?? Yeah…I know…See how that sounds….
Anti-Jamiat demo in PU;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNRJ0PHcItI
Anti-Jamiat demo in PU; http://www.express.com.pk/epaper/Article.aspx?news ID=1100301987&Date=20071120&Issue=NP_LHE
Miracles can happen.
Another interesting article on IJT by Abbas Athar; http://www.express.com.pk/epaper/Article.aspx?news ID=1100301989&Date=20071120&Issue=NP_LHE