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.
It was once again Imran Khan’s blunder to trust on Islami Jamiat Talba. Anyone who have been in politics in general and students politics in particular knows about unfair tactics and double standards of Jamaat’s politics double. It clearly shows Imran’s straight forward attitude in politics. He is undoubtedly politically correct but lacks cleverness which gave him such a hard blow. I think its a great lesson for him to be more smart in his future moves as he will face multiple challenges and blows in future too.
I also pray that the nascent and sincere movement in Punjab University to get rid of Jamaat wont be sabotaged by violence as latter will try to regain its control in PU no matter how much bloodshed and violence it causes.
A very good article in The Nation on Jamaat’s planning to trap Imran and this is how these JAMATIYAY strategize their unfair political moves.
How and who bowled Imran Khan out:
http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/nov-2007/17/index8. php
We are proud of you Imran as students of Pakistan.You need a good team to run your party. Happy birthday (it’s on 25 Nov.) and good luck for your future.
What an irony, it looks like all the people who are blaming MQM are as polarized as MQM. Alas they don’t realize but they are the different sides of the same coin. I don’t want to say it openly but associating Musharaf all the time with MQM is the figment of imagination of nothing but a polarize mind. I always thought that ethnicity is no long an issue in Pakistan, but looks like it is still one of the biggest factor in Pakistan; and this time Musharaf is the victim and it is not started by MQM.
Imran should leave the country and let us all self destruct our self. Why is he really trying to help us at all, we don’t want to be a better citizen, we are happy with the mess we have created, we love to be hypocrites with ludicrous intentions for our self. Let us be part of the ‘pack’ and glorify our stupidity.
“Islami jamit talaba has no any blamished past, it is a single papular student orginization all over the pakistan,”
awais, give me a break. You either did not study anywhere in Pakistan or are being deliberately untruthful. All my educational career I saw Jamaatis as nothing but thugs and liars and cheaters. Anyone who has studied at PU, UET and QAU, among other institutions, can testify to that.
Here is a nice article for you and for Rafay Kashmiri, the eternal denier.
From the horse