Veteran politician Makhdoom Javed Hashmi was heckled by a group of doctors and students who encircled his car, raised slogans against him and temporarily blocked his exit on Friday.
The incident took place when Hashmi went to the boys’ hostel of Nishtar Medical College for funeral prayers. Hashmi was suspended by PTI last month after levelling serious allegations against the PTI chief Imran Khan.
When Hashmi’s convoy reached the hostel a group of around 100 doctors and students – who had also come to attend the funeral prayers – surrounded his car and started chanting ‘daaghi, daaghi’ – a slogan first raised against him by PTI vice chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi in the party’s Karachi rally.
Several members of the crowd also tried to attack Hashmi and pelted his vehicle and convoy with stones. Later, female students also joined the protesters and kept his vehicle from moving out.
However, tensions cooled down later and the protesters cleared his way, when Hashmi promised that he would not rejoin PML-N.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 4th, 2014.
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Hashmi Sahib knew full well that there are certain parties where dissent is not tolerated at all. All dissenting voices are crushed, ridiculed, insulted, attacked, verbally and physically assaulted. On the other hand there are parties where people come and go but there are no dictatorial blood feuds. New Pakistan has a revolutionary party where lifelong dictator and nobody can even breath freely without his will. All lota and political orphans can come but not leave if they want to have a normal life.
History is on Hashmi's side, he doesn't care these non serious elements. The way he exposed these anarchists and stooges of dark forces is what matters and will be remembered. Every great man who stood with truth has gone through this stage.
@aqsa:
Madam If Hashmi was Daghi then why IK had included him in his team.Leaders standing left and right to IK all have same ilk of backdrop.If Jahangir Tareen ( Who is ameer tareen).Khurshid Qasori and Shah Mehmood Qureshi are debarred what remains in PTI.U should suggest above seniors to announce retirement from politics as well.
Above all now u admit that what Hashmi is telling is right. If PTI leaders are not facing situation like this it does not mean will not happen to them.Sooner or later happen to them with more intensity and they will find no place to hide.
The thing that sadden me is Hashmi had a chance to take a respectable exit from politics, but he selected the to be kicked out. I considered him a respectable/different politician but he is not different, fighting for his politics with self respect for himself.
GO HASHMI GO and I repeat GO HASHMI GO. Iqbal Hadi Zaidi
This guy is in a race with Guloo Butt or Rehman Malik to become a caricature of himself.
PTI supporters ---- when you chant Go Nawaz Go , sit on D Chowk or elsewhere - It is your right as freedom of expression and opinion. well Ok, buT when some one express his opinion alleging your leader he deserves to be hacked by you, he is wazibul stoned ( on his car). what you call it . In civilized society it is called double standard. I do not know what is the definition of such behaviour in PTI . Hasan Nisar once said that we are not a Zinda Kaum but a crowd/a mob who simply follow . Rationale thinking is alien in Pakistan. it will be very bad if he is proved right.
You PMLN fans have audacity to demand respect and decency after raping this country for 30 years?
It's amazing how people say that whoever doesn't see eye-to-eye with PTI are heckled and harassed! Have you gone against the PML-N folk? Did you read Mariam Nawazs' tweets? Do you know what the Sharif did when PAT didn't see eye-to-eye with them in Model Town? It is just truly amazing that some Facebook rants and sloganeering is upsetting so many of you 'educated' lot when the N-league has murdered people who didn't see "eye-to-eye" with them.
You guys have amazing judging scales! Pathetic.
Hashmi sb! The best way for you was to announce retirement from politics when you feel differences with PTI, now you have to face un-pleasant situation every where, to add fuel to the flame you put scores of allegation on PTI and its senior members on daily basis. The question is that if all your allegations are supposed to be true then why you remain part of that dirty politics upto the last stage? These allegation only caused to reduce your credibility nothing else.
@H Chaudhry: Fully agree with your observation. Nevertheless, pl. listen to his statements which makes one wonder about his sanity. During his last press conferance, PML(N) people sitting next to him are the same who were abusing him. when he was in PTI. He should gracefully retire from active politics and become elder stateman. +
Hahahaha--veteran politician- always on sale.
These students are NOT PTI workers. 99% would not have attended a PTI meeting let alone hold a party post. These protests reflect the sentiments of the general masses, not only PTI workers.
This is the caliber of the so called educated Pakistani people who support the party of the crudest leaders!
respect is earned, not demanded. this guy got pattern of this sort of behavior with every party he had left in past. Decency is something of foreign to him.
@Sana: Lolz...lolz...I just can't see the model punjab province...please show us when you get to see yourself
Idealism has led to fanaticism and mob mentality which are detrimental to creation of NAYA PAKISTAN. Logically speaking, KPK should be a role model of good governance. Yet in efforts to burry another massive corruption of Rs.2.0 billion, the KPK government removed an upright government officer making him OSD.
Serves him right.
Problem with PTI as they think themselves only honest and others are corrupt. How much geathering of corrupt leaders in PTI from SMQ to Tareen and Azam sawati with stories in newspapers. Hashmi was BAGHI when he joined PTI but now he is DAGI for PTI when he disclosed script of London Plan.
In the promised land ( New Pakistan ), this is how people will be treated for having difference of opinion or ideas with Imran Khan. Keep it up IK you are very successfully teaching a new kind of terrorism to your followers. I dread you and your tehreek.
@YP Protesting and hackling some one are two different things. Stopping some one's car is not right regardless of opinion so its not matter of what he expect. This behavior will cost IK dearly.
Not even old men and funerals are safe from PTI bandits. There are some places and ocassions when there should be no politics, hatred and venom. However, this New Pakistan culture is going to come back and bite them in the rear.
The problem with PTI is that anyone who doesn't see eye to eye with them is harassed. Hashmi sb you are a true leader and don't let PTI thugs deter you from speaking the truth. You shud join PMLN because it is truly working to make Punjab a model province. PTI will soon break apart since it is full of corrupt politicians from other parties. Shame on PTI. down with PTI
What more does he expect.
it is like getting french revolution in Pakistan. Every elite and royal butchered !
PTI supporters and party members need a crash course in ethics. Loose language, bad manners, and disrespect of state institutions are fast becoming their preferred political tactics.