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.
JAMAT-E-ISLAMI IS WHAT IS WRONG WITH PAKISTAN
Imran khan is in politics and he use a very colorful language against his opponent. So it don’t surprise me.
Some one has compared Imran with Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan. Well Nawabzada was very polite and soft spoken politician and was respected by all sites. The kind of language Imran was using against Maulana Fazal-ul-Rehman, it was an inevitable retaliation.
I hope every one should develop tolorence for other’s point of view including in both use of language and force.
i have little or no respect for IMRAN KHAN, he is an ethnic-hate monger whose only impact on PAKISTANI politics is taking pot shots on a well established political party which represents the largest METRO city of pakistan, that is one way of gaining popularity in HATE-MONGERS, by being an ETHNOCENTRIC opportunistic weasel he managed to scrape a seat from MIANWALI what a schocker! & now he talks about being a principled opponent of the ARMY.
if u look at his interviews given to the DUMB PAKISTANI MEDIA he plays himself as a NATIONALISTIC savior of PAKISTAN who is going to stand up to US influence & when he gives an interview to CNN & other western media outlets this person SUCKS up SO blatantly u could tell that he wish he was in place of benazir to take the JOB of PM.
not only that he was trying to steal PAKISTANI ARTIFACTS & was trying to take them to his home in UK.
he has little or no support what so ever, i am happy that those DISGUSTING JAMATIS double crossed him
& by providing space on this froum to discuss this individual,
the MODERATOR has done great disservice to the credibility of this forum if it had any to begin with!!
Aaj TV hasn’t been telecasting “Live with Talat” or “Bolta Pakistan” for nearly a week now.
I, too, suspect that the owners have signed the code of conduct.
“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