Re: Imran arrested after stand-off with Jamaat-e-Islami students
Very true. MMA stands for Mullah Military Alliance.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iZ8zsyONAuUNtp7d9Gx9C32-uglQ
Pakistan’s fugitive Khan arrested by police
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LAHORE, Pakistan (AFP) — Pakistan cricket legend Imran Khan was arrested by police after he emerged from hiding to join a rally against President Pervez Musharraf’s emergency rule, police said.
They said Khan, who has founded his own opposition party, would be placed back under house arrest in line with a detention order issued last week after military ruler Musharraf declared the state of emergency.
Appearing in public for the first time since slipping the net around his home last week, Khan tried to join the demonstration at a university campus in the eastern city of Lahore.
Amid chaotic scenes, he was lifted onto the shoulders of demonstrators and then pushed inside a building by a crowd, witnesses said. Hundreds of riot police ringed the campus.
Less than an hour later, he was hustled out of the building, surrounded by dozens of people, and put in an unmarked van, an AFP reporter witnessed.
“He is in police custody. There was a detention order against him and they have been served on him,” Khalid Batti, a senior Lahore police officer, told AFP.
“We are going to place him under house arrest.”
Khan, who led Pakistan to its only cricket World Cup victory in 1992, had been placed under house arrest on November 3 but quickly escaped.
“He is in police custody and he is under 90 days detention,” Rana Mansoor, district police chief, told AFP.
“The orders were issued under the maintenance of public order laws.”
His reappearance comes amid mounting opposition to the state of emergency, with former premier Benazir Bhutto trying to forge a united front with other Musharraf opponents, including Khan.
Bhutto remained under house arrest in Lahore to prevent her leading a mass procession against emergency rule, after Tuesday calling on Musharraf to quit and vowing never to serve under him in government.
Some 1,000 police kept up a security stranglehold around the house, which was surrounded by barbed wire and barricades.