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.
-I do think that there is a potential in Mr. Imran Khan being nominated The Prize Alfred Nobel.(peace-prize)
Peace
-and let peace blossom
in the State of Peace-willing
people of PAKistan.
1. Rumours of a change in Pakistan by the 20th of Nov.
2. Musharraf is going on a visit to Saudi Arabia. Some say that there is a lot of packing going on in the army house and that he is going for good and won’t be returning. (I am told that it is treason to spread this in Pakistan)
3. There are rumours that Bush called Mush on saturday and told him that he would not be welcome in the US. According to some, this may be behind Musharraf’s perspiration during the news conference the other day.
On the funnier side, today, Mush issued an amendment to the PCO to give authority to the President to lift the Emergency. The man has really lost it. :)
The senate chairperson Muhammad Mian Sumro is being mentioned as the leading candidate for the care taker PM.
It is very hard to get rid of a dictator when students beat up political leader.
The person who deserve to be arrested or beaten is mushy dog but alas wat a country ,he is still ruling in pakistan …shame for Pakistanis.
why you guys are changing topic. topic here is Imran. So finally Mr “Chi” has been arrested :)
To me it seems more like a humorous episode. The reality is student movement has nothing to do with Imran’s appeal. Somehow this joker got the idea that students are on Campus waiting for Imran Khan.