Pakistani police Friday raided the home of Chaudhry Parvez Elahi, President of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf celebration and former Chief Minister of Punjab. At his residence in Lahore, 500 police and anti-corruption personnel tried to arrest Elhai, however failed to take action after dealing with resistance from his supporters. Following the occasions of the raid, police registered a case in opposition to Elhai on terrorism costs for the alleged violent actions of his supporters.
The operation lasted round 5 hours, with an armoured car getting used to interrupt via the gates of Elhai’s residence. Supporters and staff of Elhai had been stated to have used stones, batons, and petrol bombs in opposition to the police and Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) officers finishing up the raid. After failing to arrest Elhai, who evaded the arrest by fleeing his home earlier than police arrived, the operation ended early Saturday. Not less than twelve individuals had been arrested on account of the raid.
Former Prime Minister of Pakistan and outstanding political determine, Imran Khan, condemned the “unlawful raid” in an announcement issued to social media:
We’re seeing the dismantling of democracy in Pak earlier than our eyes. There isn’t any respect for Structure, SC verdicts, or elementary rights of the ppl – solely regulation of jungle and facism . . . They attacked my home & now identical being accomplished to Pervez Elahi by cabal of crooks & handlers. By no means seen such barbarism even in Musharraf’s martial regulation . . . sufficient is sufficient.
Khan, who’s a powerful ally of Parvez Elahi, completed his assertion by asserting he will likely be issuing a “roadmap” following the occasion, that explains learn how to “arise in opposition to this destruction of our Structure and democracy.”
