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.
ha ha good one Rafay Kashmiri. PU and MQM? lol….
…you live on your jamaati planet all you like.
Deewana Aik,
Your version seems to me stereotype, eternally blaming
others since eternity, of course Qazi’s statement does’nt
county like always, don’t you understand MQM’s
involvement ?? Imran’s enemy No. 1 .
“kindly stop bickering on Imran
“We strongly believe that inspite of political differences, no person deserves physical bashing and humiliation as was met out to Imran. ”
Thou protesteth too much, Owais. This is just common courtesy and human decency we’re talking about.
Much has been said about how Pakistan is not the same it was 10 or 20 years ago. This incident and the one in Karachi when the CJ visited suggests its still the same, if not worse in many ways with political parties and student political parties morphing into mini-mafias.
To all commentators,
kindly stop bickering on Imran’s inccident,
it was a sabotage from anti-opposition
and anti-religion elements, infiltrated every
where, try to learn from actualities, instead
of bring out your personal venum, it won’t
bring us any strength, we are becomming weaker
and weaker every day.