Imran Khan Arrested - at PU

[OptiKNerV]

I have heard many rumors that they beat him so hard that he was bleeding ...
Any more infos?
Comments...

[asad.arsalan]

yes it is true ... he is arrested and they torn his clothes
whole campus was block with the traffic
me and my colligue were stuck in the traffic and it took 2 hours to us to reach at KALMA CHOWK .
damn the situation is getting messy day by day.

[eff-kay]

My friends were there too .... for protest.

I am very happy that Jamiat, just like their parent part (Jamat-e-Islami), held the tradition of bastard-ness and assisted police in arresting Imran Khan.

My friends saw the whole drama live.

Love Live Jamiat - Who needs Mir Jafer when we Jamiat/Jamat-e-Islami/Mulla Fazlurrehman is there.

If he see Jamat-e-Islami's history, they have always struggled against Pakistan - in 1947 they were with Congress and fought against Quaid-e-Azam. Now they are playing double games again and supporting dictatorship nothing but for money..

Pakistan has two curses : Army and Mulla . The day they are tamed or thrown in sea, Pakistan will start prospering.

[asad.arsalan]

there is a polling situation risen now . half of the people think that whatever happen with Imran khan was not good.
and he don't deserve it
and half of them r in the favor that whatever happen with him
he definatately deserve it.

[eff-kay]

Well he was/is doing right.

We need to resist for our rights.

[Kursed]

Long Live JI! You've done us proud again.

[Guyv3r]

JI condemns manhandling of Imran at PU

LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami leadership condemned the manhandling by Punjab University students and subsequent arrest of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan.

On this occasion, Qazi Hussein Ahmed took serious notice of the incident and constituted a committee comprising the central leadership of the party to probe into the incident.

According to the press release of JI, Secretary General Syed Munawwar Hasan, Liaquat Baloch, Hafiz Mohammed Idris, Farid Ahmed Paracha and Amirul Azeem termed the incident with Imran Khan as a conspiracy by saying, ‘Some mischievous elements are responsible for it.’

JI leaders expressed deep regret over the incident by saying, ‘This action of Punjab University students cast a slur on the struggle for the restoration of constitution and democracy.’

JI leaders expressed solidarity with Imran Khan.

Source - Geo

[Gladiator]

indeed

and for those mushi lovers this article on yahoo news might be of some value of how intl. community view ur BITCH ASS LEADER............ and how his previous 8 years rule has been seen ? as democratic or dictatorship.........

Pakistan leader to quit army this month - Yahoo! News




By MATTHEW PENNINGTON and STEPHEN GRAHAM, Associated Press Writers
26 minutes ago



RAWALPINDI, Pakistan - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said Wednesday he expects to step down as army chief by the end of November and begin a new presidential term as a civilian, warning that Pakistan risked chaos if he gave into opposition demands to resign.

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In an interview with The Associated Press, he accused former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, currently under house arrest, of fueling political turmoil and rejected Western pressure to quickly lift emergency rule, which he indicated was likely to continue through the January elections.

"All those who are blunt enough to tell me to my face what the reality is, all of them think, yes, it will lead the country to chaos if I do not handle the political environment now with me remaining as the president," he said at his army office.

The U.S.-backed general had originally planned to quit as chief of the powerful army by Thursday, when his presidential mandate and the term of the current parliament expire, but he said he was forced to delay the restoration of civilian rule until a court ruling on his recent re-election.

He said the timing would depend on the Supreme Court — which he purged of independent-minded judges when he suspended the constitution Nov. 3 — but expected it to happen this month.

The U.S. and other Western allies have been pushing for him to quit his military post and end the emergency, warning that it could seriously undermine the legitimacy of the elections that are meant to end eight years of direct military rule since he took power in a coup. The Bush administration sent its No. 2 diplomat, Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte, to Pakistan.

Washington wants Musharraf to share power with other moderate forces to combat rising Islamic extremism that the general cited as the justification for seizing emergency powers.

Authorities put Bhutto under house arrest Tuesday for the second time in a week, and a senior federal government official told the AP that she was grounded until at least Thursday.

"The position for her will remain like this until at least tomorrow. Then the government will review what to do with her," the official said on condition of anonymity because the matter was politically sensitive and no decision had been made to release her.

Another opposition leader was arrested after he showed up at a student rally in Lahore, police said. Imran Khan, a cricket legend who leads a small but outspoken opposition party, was the only one of Musharraf's most outspoken critics not in detention or exile.

Bhutto said Tuesday she was working to forge a partnership with Nawaz Sharif, the man overthrown as prime minister in a 1999 coup by Musharraf. She demanded that Musharraf step down, dashing Western hopes the two moderate leaders would form an alliance to confront strengthening Islamic extremists.

Bhutto's call, which could see Pakistan's two main opposition parties joining, raised a new threat for Musharraf. It further complicated matters for Washington, which has criticized Musharraf's recent crackdown on dissent but sees him as a dependable partner against al-Qaida.

Negroponte was expected in Pakistan on Friday to underscore U.S. concerns about the situation, where rallies have been banned and independent TV news blacked out.

"We continue to want to see elections move forward in a free, fair and transparent manner (and) we want to see the emergency decree lifted," deputy State Department spokesman Tom Casey said. "We want to see all moderate political forces be able to work together.

However, Bhutto said she could not work with Musharraf.

"The international community needs to decide whether it will go with one man or the people of Pakistan," Bhutto told the AP by telephone Tuesday from the house where she is being held in the city of Lahore.

Musharraf says emergency rule is needed to curb political unrest that he says is hampering the government's fight against militants along the border with Afghanistan.


Critics contend the Nov. 3 emergency decree was a cover to oust independent-minded judges who had crimped Musharraf's powers. They call his move outright martial law since authorities have unchecked power to detain opponents.

Khan, who had been in hiding since escaping from house arrest a day after emergency rule was declared, was promptly detained by hardline students and handed over to police Wednesday, authorities said.

Some 200 student supporters cheered wildly and lifted Khan into the air when he got out of a car on a university campus in Lahore, but other students representing the hard-line Jamaat-e-Islami party surged forward, grabbed Khan and handed him over to police, senior police official Aftab Cheema told the AP.

Cheema said Khan is being held at an undisclosed location, and was charged under the Anti-Terrorism Act. He gave no details of specific charges, but said Khan was disturbing the peace.

"He created a law and order situation at the educational institution and caused a disruption in educational activities," Cheema told AP.

Jamaat-e-Islami is also opposed to Musharraf's declaration of emergency rule, but the students apparently were angered that the relatively moderate Khan was allowed on campus.

Bhutto, a secularist who has served as prime minister twice, is trapped in a padlocked house surrounded by hundreds of police. Approach roads are blocked with trucks and metal barricades lined by barbed wire.

Her detention prevented her from staging a protest procession to the capital, Islamabad. The procession went ahead but was quickly stopped by police, and security forces also clashed with anti-government protesters in other cities.

"Musharraf knows how to crack down against pro-democracy forces," Bhutto wrote in an op-ed piece published Wednesday in the Washington Post. "He is, however, unwilling or unable to track down and arrest Osama bin Laden or contain the extremists. This is the reality of Pakistan in November 2007.

"The only terror that Musharraf's regime seems able to confront is the terror of his own illegitimacy," she added.

Bhutto said she would work to forge an opposition alliance including Sharif, a longtime rival and former prime minister also trying to make a political comeback.

Sharif returned to Pakistan in September to prepare for January parliamentary elections but was immediately deported despite a Pakistani Supreme Court ruling that he could stay.

Speaking to the AP from exile in Saudi Arabia, Sharif welcomed Bhutto's comments and urged opposition parties to unite to "fight dictatorship."

u have any arguments against all these............. i say STFU

[badboy4life]

before mushi is tired and hanged i think first all of need to get rid of the parasite thats eating away not our country but our society as a whole...the religious political parties!!!...untill and unless quaid's vision is fulfilled,which is BTW NOT standing up to hindu india or a shariah ruled land for the muslims or any other bullfukin shit ppl hav transformed his vision into but a place for the muslims of the sub continent to live in peacefully whr religion DOES NOT interfere wid the govt!!!
a secular state...yes....read on it and u will realize that the absolute last thing he wanted was religion interfering in the affairs of the state!!!!

what we as a nation are now faced wid is NOT a choice between nawaz sharif or benazir and mushi!!!

but infact its a choice between a secular state and a mullah governed state...we as a nation are illetrate...and get influenced very very easily look at what general zia did to our army, he radicalized it beyond recognition!
although i personally love imran khan's veiw and ideology but u have to understand that we as a nation are not mature enuff to handle the the responsibility of absolute democracy he wishes to give us!!!
YES mushi deserves to be tortured to death and yes if rite now we choose him he will become a ruthless dictator!!!....but dictatorships DONNOT last!!!!

rite now if we choose him ,he will cleanup the mess zia made and after that is done... maybe we wont see mushi dying or getting thrown outta power in our lifetimes but atleast our future generations will have a secular progressive state which the world mite actually give a chance to move forward!!!

kindly put sum thought into watever i said and if u disagree write back..with a valid argument!!!!

[juglarvain]

i agree sean paul for sure........but this is the tradition of our Barren politics...
our politics is always struggling since Quaid and this situation is just replica of bhutto n zia period....people so called most powerful of all by our leaders as AWAM cannot du anything...hundreds even thousands cannot chg the system as a whole....musharraf i literally dun understand whether he is doing right of wrong....
im looking this situation form an economic point of view.....
e.g flour is getting expensive so does every necessity....
musharraf kya kare ab cheezen mehngi ho gayi hain.....this is not the work of president...our industrialist dont visualize future...imfl;ation does take place....but try to be realistic using facts....its a common hobby of uncles' blaming every leader.....
i can remember oct 99 nawaz sharif exile people saluted mushii for doing this..now after 8 yrs mushii is a traitor....wat can he do.....emergency being + or - is caused by the opposition themselves....ppp, ti , mma pml-n what dey did in last 5 years....elections r cumin n dey r showing der concern.....
dey don't deserve a vote......imran as pure partner of fazl-ur-rehman stands where 2day! he himslef blames maulana now.....molviz can only bang at the tables of parliament and appeal for coutry wide strike thats it....n saying HUM SHADEED MUZAMAT karte hain.....K**SE main lo muzammat.....
emergency is prevailing in pakistan.....police is active dese kind of protests ends in arrests n bleeding....however imran should try to find his way for proper protest.....mushi got army n presidentship and is brutal dis tym esp on black coats!!
so let it go...enjoy u r life...simple rule LIVE N LET OTHERS LIVE....these leaders doint deserve respect they all r controlled by DANDA.....so as mushi is doing right.....aur ye kaum kabhi nahi theek ho sakti......im supporting mushi actively and he is doing right in waziristan and swat....fo0k em all mushi!!

[towelie]

Even though I'm a staunch supporter of separation of mosque and State, secularization alone is not the all-in-all solution to the problems of our society.

Even illiteracy itself inst entirely to blame, in fact its a side-effect and not a cause.

I'm a bit busy right now, so I'll try to wrap up my response as quickly as possible :

The problem is apathy. Apathy is caused when a person feels that the locus of control of their lives is outside their being and in some other person's hands. When a person feels helpless to do anything, he gives up, and stops fighting his problems. The locus of control of our nation is external for two main reasons :
1) Religion, which trains their minds from birth that they are powerless to face their problems and only a divine being will intervene and help them
2) Lack of self governance. The past 60 years of oppression and chaos have desensitized the people, and they now feel totally powerless over their circumstances. Everything that happens is blamed on America or Zionism or some other conspiracy of the 'agencies'.

The problem is not that they are mentally or physically incapable of governing themselves.
The problem is that they have never been given a fair chance to do so.

Look at the cases of Japan and Germany after the WW2. Lets examine the fact that Japan, Pakistan and Germany basically started from scratch after the war. In fact we had some edge as those two countries were basically piles of rubble in '47.

Before the war , Japan was a feudal society not unlike ours. After the American occupation, General McArthur introduced land reform, educational reform, allowed the Japanese to hold elections, broke up the monarchy and feudal system and gave power to the people. Within two decades Japan was not only back on track, it skyrocketed !

The people are not stupid. When they are no longer oppressed, both physically and mentally, they will recover, and they will rise. The only problem is, are they willing for a sacrifice of blood, sweat and tears ?

I wish I could elaborate more on my points but I cant right now. What happened to Imran Khan is an outrage and just another example of the two faced nature of religious parties. They simply cannot be trusted. Period. Exclamation Mark.

[asad.arsalan]

does anyone know for how long they put him into the Jail. ??

[Rebel]

Originally Posted by towelie

The problem is apathy..

Pretty much... but unfortunately this 1 of this situations where relatively unconcerned people need to make an effort...

[juglarvain]

3 months in kot lakhpat jail......courtesy jang!

[Maddy]

Originally Posted by AAJ.TV

Imran Khan in jail under Anti-Terrorism Act

LAHORE ( 2007-11-15 09:51:54 ) :
Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf chief Imran Khan was moved to Lahore's biggest prison early on Thursday after being charged under anti-terror laws for protesting against emergency rule, officials said.

Imran Khan was charged under a section of the Anti-Terrorism Act which stipulates a punishment of at least seven years and up to life in prison.

Lahore police chief Malik Mohammad Iqbal told AFP on Wednesday after Khan was arrested that he would be charged for inciting people to pick up arms, calling for civil disobedience and "spreading hatred."

Khan had called for President Gen Pervez Musharraf to face the death penalty after the military ruler imposed emergency rule on November 3.

He was put under house arrest but slipped the net and had been in hiding -- communicating via email and video -- until Wednesday, when he reappeared at Punjab University in Lahore.

Khan told AFP he wanted to start a student movement but was quickly seized by a group of radical students and later handed over to police custody.

Police said he was charged late Wednesday and moved overnight to Kot Lakhpat jail, Lahore's biggest.

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