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Police ring Imran Khan's cancer hospital
LAHORE: Pakistani police Friday sealed off a cancer hospital set up by Imran Khan as they sought to track him down, after he has escaped arrest under the state of emergency.A police official was quoted as saying that police had cordoned off the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital in Lahore "to search for Imran Khan." "We are still looking for him because we have orders to detain him" under public order legislation, police official Mohammad Omar said. Khan's house was also cordoned off. Khan said in a statement from hiding that he was in contact with other opposition leaders and "we will soon launch a mass movement against Musharraf." He demanded the reinstatement of independent-minded chief justice Iftikhar Muhammed Chaudhry, who was sacked by Musharraf immediately after the state of emergency was imposed. "We will continue our struggle," Khan said while talking to Geo television later. "We are also preparing our strategy to launch a civil disobedience movement against him. We will not let him (Musharraf) sit in peace." He called for the reinstatement of all other judges who have been detained and spoke of setting up a legal support fund to help them. Staff at Geo News office said police later came to the channel's Islamabad bureau to inquire about the interview. "They came and said they were looking for Imran Khan but then they left without searching the office," reporter Mohammad Tahir said. Posted by: john frum 2007-11-09 |
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