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.
@ Shafaat,
Btw, how did you get this secret information ?
did ISI called you or sent u a telegram or e-mail ?
JI & IJT are two individual entities, although they
have a common goal, Islamic Democracy and
Human Rights, social structure, healthy Muashira,
Do you have some thing better ??
@G-FORCE,
I am shocked to your reaction on Imran being scuffled
and manhandled by some saboteurs, but your reactions
on BB being directly reason for 150 killed never showed
such reaction of a sincere & worried citizen ?
They should be trying terrorists in Terrorism Court, not Imran Khan! Army gone Nuts
Whatever happened with Imran Khan in Punjab University is a sham and jamiat will never be in a position to get rid of this act. The whole leadership of this organization should resign and appologize.
Yesterday I heard some leader of JI saying that it was ISI men pretending to be IJT members who manhandled and helped Imran Khan arrested. He further said that JI has formed a committee that will investigate the matter in order to have a clear picture of the situation and those IJT students found envolved will be dealt with accordingly.
As for a personal experience, I’ve always found the IJT activists as high flying who don’t hesitate to resort to violant acitivities on campus. But it is beyond my comprehension why the hell they involved in such an activity becuase Imran Khan’s Tehrik-e-Insaaf gels quite well with Qazi’s JI. Moreover the current national scenario doesn’t allow anyone sane to indulge in such a shameful acitivity. All in all it is extremely unfortunate to treat perhapes the best of current political leaders and national hero with such a cruelty. Let’s reiterate the message what Imran Khan is trying to convey; the message of hope; of movement and of struggle to free our dear homeland from the clutches of this moronic millitiary regime.
Bhalay Dino
well said ayesha but also bother to mention Army person duties ,their only duty is to guard pakistan not rule the country,create political parties,interfere in Judiciary, interfere in Media…if Army dogs remain in their barracks then things would be pretty much resolved…start from where it require most ,always don’t expect from civil societies to act