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.
I always loved Musharraf but this is quite shocking to see Imran khan the proud son of our nation, who always fought against injustice, he left his lavish life for the sake of this nation, and see how is this man being treated by we shameful nation. We are sorry Imran Bhai, I donot like Musharraf anymore…
Sohail, Thanks for the link. I am posting Khaleej Times Editorial here for the naysayers.
“THE treatment meted out to Pakistan
Imran is a hero for all Pakistani’s all over the world. It’s sad to see that a minority bunch of hired thugs representing themselves as JI. If I was to face these idiots I would feel pity for them as they do not know right from wrong. They are the Munafiks of Islam. They in my opinion deserve the treatment that Musharaff gives them when he treats them worse then the dogs. Long Live PTI, Long live PAKISTAN – ZINDABAD – Inshallah our day will come and PAKISTAN will be free and for all PAKISTANI’s not for one man like the dog MUSH
@ Rafay Kashmiri…..
man..I dont know which planet you are on as I asked previously…but it must be lonely up there….
MTM throws out IJT….
http://thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=81245
as somebody asked you in a previous post….why cant you just be like the rest of the Mullahs and at least ‘pretend’ to be anguished by this….its easy and convenient and no fuss….
Also, your reather tacky reference to Khans and Changez Khan…
you forget the magnificent Ottomans who are als able to trace their lineage to the man :)
but am going off track here…..
but when this is over my friend….the rest of us Musalmaans will never forgive you Mullahs for siding with the devil……
IJT and JI have proved this beyond doubt that they are on ISI payroll…
Long live Imran