In a surprise move, a Green Town police team on Wednesday night raided a snooker club and took Ahsan Ramzan, the World and Asian Under-21 snooker champion, into custody.
Ramzan strongly reacted to the police action and through a video appealed to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Punjab IGP Usman Anwar to order a probe into the issue.
In his video message, the youngster claimed that police reached the snooker academy late night (Wednesday) and took him to the police station.
“I, along with other players, was in the academy in Township in connection with the training for upcoming events when the Green Town police raided the academy for keeping it open till late at night,” Ramzan claimed.
Police took Ramzan to the police station, though he said he introduced himself to police. He said the policemen seized his mobile phone and put him behind the bars.
The snooker hero finally secured liberty when a friend approached police and sought that he be released.
Ramzan, who won the World and Asian Champion titles recently, was very much upset while describing the raid details.
“I informed the policemen that I was a world champion but they replied I had done it for myself (implying that they would not give in to any pressure),” he lamented.
“I always tried to elevate Pakistan and got success. But I am humiliated in my own country.”
He further said that unfortunately snooker had no patronage in the country and was being dealt like an orphan.
