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.
Everybody knows that all these religious parties are paid agents of USA and they have proved it How dare they attack an unarmed human if they are so patriot they should go and attack the govt lotas shame on u Qazi and co
Protest in Islamabad yesterday
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Students of eight varsities to protest against emergency
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thanks a lot IJT….thanks a lot for mistreating a person who was fighting for YOUR rights and the rights of your YOUR children….thanks a lot…
another shining example of how the bearded brigade Mullahs and their spawn/affiliates treat Muslims like animals….
what can you say? just what can you say at this?
these are the same people who almost destroyed UET as an institution and then have been doing the same at their current act of infamy…
pity us to have such people in our midst…pity the nation that has been thrown to the Mullahs to fend for itself…
for nothing brings ruin and abject disaster other than the touch of the bearded ones…
by the way…these IJT gents were lately involved in hounding the shia students of PU from use of the university mosque….
fitna…fasaad aur phir sub khatam….
shukriya IJT…shukriya JI…
Imran Khan faces death penalty:
http://news.sky.com/skynews/video/videoplayer/0,,3 0200-1292921,.html
Besides shouldn’t the IJT goons be arrested for illegally detaining a citizen of Pakistan? They took law into their own hands and should be dealt according to the law, or the law is just for those oppose the military?