Here’s why Pakistan police’s hours-long operation to arrest Imran Khan failed
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf politician Imran Khan alleged in a Twitter post after his supporters stopped police’s attempts to detain him from his residence.
The “real purpose” of Pakistan police is to abduct and assassinate him. The detention plan was “mere drama”, ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan alleged today amid high drama on Lahore’s roads over tries to take him into custody.
Police’s attempts to arrest Imran Khan unsuccessful:
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf politician made the severe allegation in a Twitter post after his followers thwarted police’s tries to arrest him from his Lahore house. Rocks were thrown at the men in uniform, who answered with water cannons.
As the face-off between his followers and police officers continues, reinforcements have been called in. Khan today wrote pictures of bullet shells and said they prove the cop’s “mala fide intent”.
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The 70-year-old leader, a cricket legend, is wanted in the Toshakhana crime case.
Last October, Pakistan’s election commission saw him guilty of unlawfully dealing gifts he got from foreign celebrities during his time as prime minister. Charges were then filed against him in an anti-corruption court that gave an arrest warrant the prior week after Khan missed the warrant.
Khan’s followers hit the roads in Islamabad, Peshawar and Karachi after his request to them to “come out”.
“The cops have arrived to detain me. They think that if Imran Khan goes to prison, the people will go to sleep. You have to show them they are wrong and that the qaum (people) is alive,” he said in a video clip last evening.
Source – NDTV
