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.
@ Imran’s unpleasant event has been
Hijacked by the secular leftist Inqalabi
thugs. The historical cheaters.
Khaleej Times Editorial : A hero
@ Ahmed Tariq…
when you say Imran ‘is not a good politician’..just what are you talking about?
so you want him to be like just about every other disgustingly filthy politician that we have ever had? you want him to become a Mullah and be in bed with whosoever is in power?
you want him growing fat off funds that are not his? youd rather he’s be Mr. 15%….????
I dont think there is a man of Imran Khan’s calibre on the political scene. Though he is not a people’s man, he has not proved to be a good politician, but as far as his constituency is concerned, he has done alot of honest and hard work. And now he is also popular in Swat and Waziristan (Hamid Mir stated this in his interview with Imran… while he was hiding). Imran has his integrity intact specially after his refusal to be the PM after 2002 Elections and after seeing his popularity in different universities in Lahore and everywhere else, I have a gut feeling that he might capture 5-6 seats this time around.
A person like him is what we need, to bring true development in terms of education and health. Economic growth rates do not matter to us. We want a prosperous Pakistan that will live ‘forever’, and that is only possible by pursuing education and health sectors.
oh this is beautiful….just beautiful… :)
PU students coupled with ISO run the Jamat-e-Jahili ragged on campus…
Mullahs on the run….
http://thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=81040