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.
Hi
I was member of IJT during my student life, and never feels ashamed of this till today.
I have no words to express stupid, shameless behaviour of IJT peopeles against Imran.
I believe nothing less then resigantion of Nazim – E – Ala could rectictify the sitution now. And should do it immidiately to proctect Jamiat name (which i was associate with pride and still has fond memories).
My advice to imran khan is please leave this dirt politics,nothing will change
imran shouldnt have been manhandled by the IJT students but they did the right thing by handing him to the police as he was REQUIRED by the police and was in hiding.
Every responsible citizen should act that way in order to help Police and other law enforcement agencies.
Imran himself is a Vice chancellor of Bradford University he should have known that UNIVERSITIES are not the place for POLITICS.
How would Imran react if someone from outside the university staged a protest against the UK government at BRADFORD university?
Shame on us, shame on all of us
Is this the way we treat our national heroes. Regardless of Imran Khan political background, he is one of the few true national heroes in the history of pakistan
and this is the way we treat him.
If we dont change our ways pakistan fate will always remain the same
jab tak ham apni halat kay badalnay kai liyay justujo naheen karein gay, humain issi tarah geedaron ki tarah zindagi guzarni pari gi
These JI and JUI goons are way over their heads! They messed up UET and now they are doing a fine job of messing up PU and other such institutions in Punjab.
Shame on JI, JUI and PU for mistreating Imran Khan!