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.
syed ali raza, no offense but your MQM has bent over backwards for the dictator (and by extension ISI) too. What do you say to that? What credibility do you think MQM has outside MQM?
you don’t have to be explicit, his implied tone of referring to MQM says it all.
when IMRAN khan accuses MQM of creating LAW & ORDER situation in karachi back in mid 90s, why is it that he never mentions ANP,PSF & PPSF & last but not least JI.
how come his critcism is so devoid of any objective prespective of the situation KARACHI was in mid 90s.
when he opens his mouth & comments on KARACHI, he reminds me of the very same rehotric one would hear from the ARMY & the establishment back in the day, for example the phony charge of “JINNAH-POR”.
he has no clue of his complete & utter ignorance of the ground reality in KARACHI.
all of what he says makes me think why did my FOREFATHERS even decided to immigrate to this hell hole we call PAKISTAN!!!
ali Reza,
I am well aware of Imran’s standoff with MQM, but could you read me chapter and verse on where he has indulged in ethnic hatemongering?
Besides, wishing ill on someone because you disagree with them does not speak a whole lot for your cause, whatever it may be.
you do face difficulties when u r on path of truth …..
We love You Imran Khan ,he is great leader ,the only politician in pakistan who is not power hungry ,and he speaks daring truth….plz vote for Imran khan in elections…..and jammiat students what ever he is doing its for u and only u…
To make things worse the state minister of information said on Monday that the ban on foreign channels was done because they showed subjects like “gay marriages” which are against norms of Pakistani society.
quoted from DAWN