In a surprise move, the rangers arrested Pakistan Tehrik Insaf’s Chairman Imran Khan from the premises of Islamabad High Court, when he reached there to appear personally in the court to comply with the orders of IHC in two cases.
The leader of the largest opposition party of the country, Imran Khan was arrested in the case of Al-Qadir Trust on the orders of Chairman National Accountability Bureau, Lt Gen (Retd) Nazir Ahmad Butt.
In its order the NAB leveled the charges against Imran Khan that allegedly he and his spouse Bushra Bibi had taken billions of rupees as bribe from a real estate company for validating a laundered amount of Rs 50 billion that was returned by the UK’s government to Pakistan during the tenure of PTI.
The legal experts are also raising a question that can the Chairman NAB surpass the court to issue arrest orders, because as per constitution of the country, the only and only courts have the prerogative to issue the arrest warrants of any citizen.
After his arrest, the Interior Minister Rana Sana Ullah Khan blamed Imran Khan that he took undue favor by using the office of Prime Minister in transferring the land to a trust where Al-Qadir University was established near Jhelum.
After the arrest of Imran Khan, the workers of PTI came out on the streets in the entire country and an unplanned protest erupted from Khyber to Karachi. At several places the crowd damaged the public property in the rage.
The protest move was so sturdy that almost all the governments of the all four provinces had to announce the implementation of Section 144, but the workers of Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf put these orders in the doldrums.
The social media also viral the footage that some important offices and some residents of high officials were also damaged by the protestors.
Now it is very much possible that some miscreants may enter in the lines of protestors, by disguising themselves as the PTI’s workers and may cause some irreparable loss to any highly sensitive installation, to malign Khan and his followers.
The rulers in the antagonism with Imran Khan have turned the country into a banana republic as there is not any precedent in the history of the country that someone is arrested without the court’s orders and from the premises of apex court.
Earlier Imran Khan had named some dominant personalities with “Dirty Harry”. It looked like it was the extreme desire of some influential element, sitting outside the government, that Khan should be arrested at least once before next general elections. Now the wish has been realized.
Khan should have been arrested by the police , but the rangers took him into custody from the premises of the court, which raised many eyebrows.
The two apex courts of the country, had taken sue motto action on the arrest of Imran Khan from the court premises.
It looks like the government is taking revenge from Imran Khan for exposing the corruption of some powerful elements, which are part and parcel of the incumbent government.
After the series of protests , and dispersal of clips of demonstrations on social media, the government has also issued orders to telecom organizations to block the internet services in the big cities throughout the homeland.
Some part of the media is terming this move as the efforts to eliminate Imran Khan from the political scenario.
It is very much right that Imran Khan should prove his innocence in the courts, but is there any example in the history of the country that more than 175 cases were registered against a single person in almost every city and town of Pakistan. The number of cases against Imran Khan is so high, that they were not registered even against the top most criminal or don of any mafia in any part of the world.
The reason for registering cases, of the same nature, in big numbers was to keep Khan involved in these cases so he could not get enough time for the preparation of upcoming polls in the country.