On May 9, (the day of Imran Khan’s arrest by NAB), a mob — led, it appeared, by PTI stalwarts — attacked the residence of the Corps Commander IV in Lahore’s hermetically sealed cantonment. Another crowd breached the gates of the seemingly impregnable GHQ in Rawalpindi.

Ordinarily, no one can enter any of Pakistan’s cantonment areas without passing through manned check-posts. The area around the corps commander’s residence in Lahore has always been ultra-security conscious. So much so that even the windows in the commercial Mall of Lahore that overlooked the CC’s compound were kept boarded permanently.

Every road that approaches the residence has obstacles to deter the unwelcome, and within its compound, at least 50 to 60 soldiers remain permanently on rota duty.

How could a crowd of several hundred reach it without being detected or stopped? Unless, that is, they were bussed in, within walking distance of the compound whose gates were left obligingly open for them to then vandalise the house and all its contents.

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