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.
More on Jamiat, by Tahir Sarwar Mir;
http://tinyurl.com/33dzoo
New Jamiat nazam is not even a PU student but a ghunda.
http://tinyurl.com/ysd97b
He was formerly involved in ghundagardee in International Islamic University. What a qualification to be a Jamiat nazim.
Haroon Rashid on Jamiat and JI. He is a JI guy;
http://www.express.com.pk/epaper/Article.aspx?news ID=1100306798&Date=20071128&Issue=NP_LHE
In my previous opinion was that Mr. Imran Khan is young blood and and new face to our country and should be given a chance to show his ability as Prime Minister. But, Now I have changed my opinion, because, Mr. Imran Khan is very hot mind and says what he want to say without respect -i.e. for example in all his talks he says Musharaf do this Musharad did this and so on………If he said Mr. so and so then what…………anyway this is my opinion and my pray to Allah – GIVE US A NEW , YOUNG, HONEST, LEADER .AAMIN
Hameeduddin Khan (Lakri)
Even Qazi Hussein Ahamd is blaming Jamiat 100% for the incident in PU and ghundagardee too;
http://tinyurl.com/2zkl35
Let’s see if Qazi Hussein is now branded as liar by pro-Jamatis here.