Islamabad, May 11: Troops were deployed in Pakistan's capital on Thursday after the arrest of former prime minister Imran Khan triggered two days of violent protests by his supporters. His arrest has enraged supporters of his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, who have clashed with security forces in several cities and attacked the headquarters of the army.
According to police, over 500 miscreants from PTI reached the Model Town Lahore residence of the prime minister in the early hours of Wednesday and set ablaze vehicles parked over there.
Amid this, in what can be called ironic development, Imran Khan has used the song "Hum Dekhenge" from the Kashmir Files directed by Vivek Agnihotri.
It should be noted that the movie is based on the genocide of thousands of Kashmiri Pandits who were targetted by radical Islamists sponsored by Pakistan providing them safe haven and funding them.
The situation in Lahore and several other cities of Punjab remained tense on Wednesday in the wake of the arrest of PTI chief and former premier Imran Khan by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in a land transfer corruption case.
Violent clashes between Imran Khan’s supporters and security forces have left at least seven people dead and nearly 300 injured across Pakistan as the army was deployed in the country’s capital Islamabad, as well as in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces on Wednesday to maintain law and order.