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.
Even Qazi Hussein Ahamd is blaming Jamiat 100% for the incident in PU and ghundagardee too;
http://tinyurl.com/2zkl35
Let’s see if Qazi Hussein is now branded as liar by pro-Jamatis here.
@dedicated to all those …………members and
their partisans
Zikr hota hey jab Jamaat ka
teray kizbon ki baat hoti hay
Tu jo chahay to jhoute banta hay
ik afwah bhi sachai banti hay
Kia ho ilaaj Malikholiay ka ?
Istarha say nisyyan banta hay !
Teri Ta’arif ho magar kesay ?
Yun Kehnay say hizyan Banta hay
Teri Paighambery ko kia hay rad
Gar kuch aur kahon to kufr banta hay
Abbas Athar on some more tactics of JI and IJT;
http://www.express.com.pk/epaper/Article.aspx?news ID=1100304446&Date=20071124&Issue=NP_LHE
also, if the Jamat-e-Jahili is so democratic as you choose to percieve…
then how come theyre sending death threats to students protesting against them? Isnt protest an integral part of democracy?
enough with the lies sir. enough please! before my ears should bleed!
genuine demoracy by JI and Jamat-e-Jahili huh?
maybe you can explain this one …
http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\11\ 24\story_24-11-2007_pg13_1
You know how I explain this…..just business as usual for the dirty, lying and fascist Jamat-e-Jahili…
lies, lies and more lies….proud to be in bed with just the right crowd!
Abdellah,
@KashifHafiz’s article is, probably a truth based
commentary, the reaction from IJT and JI is an
example of genuin Democracy, whereas general
situations of some of the Student’s organ. are very
biased and doubtfull about their political orientations.
@Deewana Aik,
Your Progressive Rais Fatima’s Daricha was, no
doubt, a Daricha, but the wrong one, thru which
you can only enjoy watching your own Paradise.
Rais Fatima on Jamiat in Karachi educational institutions;
http://www.express.com.pk/epaper/Article.aspx?news ID=1100303510&Date=20071122&Issue=NP_LHE
Abdullah, it’s not a question of perspective. The allegations against Professor Ghafoor and Liaqat Baluch are serious and if untrue, Jamaat Islmai and IJT should take Athar Abbas, Daily Express, Maududi’s son Syed Farooq Maudui and Mir family to court. But I have a feeling that they won’t do that as the allegations are correct and there are just too many witnesses around than can be taken out…so to speak.