He may be the legendary hero of Pakistan Cricket but the former cricket captain is now in the middle of a different ball game. Yestarday saw Imran Khan being manhandled by the IJT activists while he surfaced after hiding from the authoroties ever since the Emergency was declared in Pakistan. An hour later, after nogotations between the IJT members and the police, he was handed in to protective custody. He was then moved to Lahore’s biggest prison early Thursday after being charged under anti-terror laws for protesting against emergency rule.Under this charge, he can be punished of at least seven years and up to life in prison.
Lahore police chief Malik Mohammad Iqbal said after Khan was arrested that he would be charged for inciting people to pick up arms, calling for civil disobedience and “spreading hatred.” Imran Khan, who led Pakistan to cricket World Cup glory in 1992, had called for President 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 a university campus in the eastern city of Lahore.
“I want the students to be mobilised, as well as the lawyers and the political parties, because it has to be a comprehensive movement against the brute force of a military dictator. I came to the university to lead a rally of students against the dictator and his illegal actions,” Imran said from police custody. “I have achieved my purpose by starting the student movement!”
Punjab University IJT Nazim Muhammad Ayub told reporters that Imran was taken to the CHEP building for his own safety and denied allegations of manhandling.
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