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.
Rais Fatima on Jamiat in Karachi educational institutions;
http://www.express.com.pk/epaper/Article.aspx?news ID=1100303510&Date=20071122&Issue=NP_LHE
Abdullah, it
Pls read from the following link,another perspective
http://www.kashifhafeez.com/mazameen_large.php?pat h=2007-11-19&img=kh_articles/large/2007-11-19.gif
Regards
Atelier (whoever you are), You got to be kidding here. Who paid you to write this up? Watch the link below if you want to know the support that this guy garners among the Pakistani youth. And this also disproves everything you said about PU. PU loves Imran and here is the proof.
http://tinyurl.com/39hhrs
If Imran was a political opportunist, he would have been the Prime Minister of Pakistan. Political opportunism is the name of the circus that Pakistani politics is all about. What Imran stands for is called “not compromising on principles”, and if you don’t know what that means, I sympathize with you.
“Mr” Altaf Husain and his “political fortress”. Do you have any idea why Altaf Husain hasn’t set foot in Pakistan since the early 90’s? Do you know what the politics of MQM is about. Do you know how much blood he and his goons have on their hands, and if Imran raises his voice against it, then that is a “crime”. How? If you are a Pakistani, I am ashamed, if not, then I want to know who you represent.
Imran’s struggle is to change the course of this country. If the job was that easy, we wouldn’t be talking about it. It may take 20/30 years, maybe more. This is not about running for an office, and winning an election. As Imran said
Dear Editor,
What utter twaddle by Britain