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.
This is same Imran Khan who gave us Shokat Khanam Hospital for Cancer patients(free!)
I think the humiliation he faced in return would be more severe than cancer. Something which can’t be treated in his own hospital. Well done guys.
well done imran khan,we salute you here in south africa.have the foresight to ignore the shaiytaan jamiat talaba
and continue the struggle.
We need to metamorphise our movement against the current dictator into becoming a struggle for democracy and rule of law . We must aim for absolutely zero tolerance for the “might is right” attitude within the country………………….be it Musharraf or IJT………….anyone ignoring the constitution and trying to exercise illegal force and violence upon other Pakistanis must be finished………..yes I mean FINISHED once and forever.
It would be nice if we could step into a time machine and go back to 1950 and start Pakistan all over again.
Things are just beyond broken now.
asa,
since you replied to my post let me clarify few points to you. I have not ‘bothered’ to mention any other faction of the society because like i said lets “just take these two factoins FOR NOW”.
Calling the army personell ….”dogs” is not a polite thing to do and breaks all norms of decency.
We may have differences with people but decency demands that we do not stoop down to name calling and abusive language.
we know that the politicians, army men, judges, lawyers, etc etc , most of them at least , are corrupt and need to re hash thier vision but that does not give us the right to call them …. like you put it … dogs !!