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  • PTI supporters vandalise Pak Army properties after Imran’s arrest

    PTI supporters vandalise Pak Army properties after Imran’s arrest

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    Lahore: Supporters of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) headed to the army installations in many parts of the country on Tuesday as the law and order situation continued to deteriorate following the arrest of Imran Khan, media reports said.

    Videos emerged on social media soon after former Prime Minister and PTI Chairman Imran Khan was arrested from outside the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday, Samaa TV reported.

    The clips showed charged PTI activists raising slogans against the government as well as the Pakistan Army, the report said.

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    The baton-wielding demonstrators reached inside the General Headquarters (GHQ) of the Pakistan Army in Rawalpindi, Samaa TV reported.

    In other videos, they could be seen vandalising army properties in different cities, including Lahore and Karachi.

    The police fired tear gas shells to disperse the demonstrators but to no avail as the law enforcers retreated.

    There are reports of PTI supporters breaking into the residence of a military officer in the cantonment area in Lahore, Dawn reported.

    Journalist Murtaza Ali Shah shared this information in a tweet, saying, “PTI supporters break into military officer’s house in Lahore Cantt.”

    He also shared a video showing a group of men, some of them with their faces partly covered, entering a gated premises with sticks. They were later seen using the sticks to hit walls, Dawn reported.

    Men in uniform could also be seen on the premise.

    Meanwhile, PTI workers from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa gathered on the streets of Lakki Marwat district under the leadership of provincial party president Muhammad Iqbal after the arrest of Khan.

    The PTI supporters resorted to burning tyres and closed down the Indus Highway.

    After Khan’s arrest, PTI had called for protests across Pakistan following which roads were blocked on the main thoroughfares in the major cities, including Karachi.

    PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi reiterated the party’s call for “peaceful protest”, following the arrest of Khan.

    In a video message shared on PTI’s Twitter habdle, Qureshi could be heard urging the people to “protest peacefully and express solidarity with PTI Chairman Imran Khan”.

    Qureshi said he was leaving for Islamabad where he had called a meeting of the PTI leadership and a six-member committee to determine the next course of action, Dawn reported.

    Qureshi said, “In my view, the plan to hold a series of rallies earlier announced by Imran Khan Sahib still holds. We have to convert them into rallies of peaceful protests.”



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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Refused extra time, students appearing for class 12 boards vandalise Manipur school

    Refused extra time, students appearing for class 12 boards vandalise Manipur school

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    Imphal: Class 12 students appearing for the state board examinations vandalised a school building in Manipur’s Thoubal district on Saturday after they were refused extra time for the Manipuri paper, officials said.

    The incident happened ACME Higher Secondary School in Yairipok.

    When five minutes were left for the Manipuri paper of the examination, being conducted by the Council of Higher Secondary Education Manipur (COHSEM), students started demanding that they be given extra time, an official said.

    “As the bell rang, several students resorted to violence, demanding extra time over various reasons. Stones were hurled and school property, including computers and furniture, were vandalised,” he said.

    A female teacher and 15 students fainted amid the chaos, he said, adding that they were taken to the community health centre for treatment.

    A total of 405 students were appearing for the examination at the centre.

    A police complaint has been lodged against eight students, who were “actively involved” in the violence.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Miscreants vandalise 14 Hindu temples in northwestern Bangladesh

    Miscreants vandalise 14 Hindu temples in northwestern Bangladesh

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    Dhaka: Unidentified miscreants vandalised 14 Hindu temples in northwestern Bangladesh in a series of orchestrated attacks overnight, police said on Sunday.

    “Unidentified people carried out the attacks under the cover of darkness, vandalising idols in 14 temples in three unions (lowest local government tier),” said Bidyanath Barman, a Hindu community leader at Baliadangi) “upazila” or “sub-district” in Thakurgaon.

    Barman, the general secretary of the upazila’s Puja Celebration Council, said some of the idols were destroyed while some were found in pond waters along the temple sites.

    “We are in the dark about their (culprits) identity but we want to bring them to justice after investigations,” Barman said.

    The Hindu community leader and union parishad chairman Samar Chattarjee said the region was always known to be an area of excellent interfaith harmony as “no such heinous incident took place here in the past”.

    “The (majority) Muslim community does not have any dispute with us (Hindus) we just cannot understand who could be these culprits,” he said.

    Baliadangi police station’s officer in-charge Khairul Anam said the attacks took place between Saturday night and Sunday dawn at several villages.

    “It clearly appears to be a case of an orchestrated attack to disrupt the peaceful situation of the country,” Thakurgaon’s police chief Jahangir Hossain told reporters at one of the temple sites.

    He added that a police investigation was launched immediately to track down the miscreants. “I assure you they will have to face stern legal actions,” he said.

    “This (attack) is the manifestation of a conspiracy against peace and communal harmony this is a serious crime and the perpetrators will face the music,” Thakurgaon’s deputy commissioner or administrative chief Mahbubur Rahman said.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )