Journalists protest outside K-P Chief Minister House on November 5, 2015. PHOTO: ASAD ZIA / EXPRESS
ABBOTTABAD: Journalists protested on Tuesday against an attack on community members of a private TV channel by officials of Peshawar Electric Supply Corporation (Pesco) in Abbottabad.
Led by senior journalists Muhammad Ashfaq and Sardar Zakirur Rehman, media persons marched from Fawara Chowk to DPO office, chanting slogans against Pesco officials.
The protesters were carrying placards and banners inscribed with slogans and demands of immediate arrest of the accused officials.
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“On frequent public complaints regarding over-billing and unannounced load-shedding, when a team of K2 TV reached the Pesco office in Abbottabad and started recording a video, a group of officials attacked the team with clubs, kicks and punches,” Cantonment police quoted a channel’s reporter as saying.
The attackers also broke cameras, mics and damaged the channel’s vehicle while several journalists were injured, police sources said.
Police have registered criminal case against under Sections 337-F, 506, 147 and 149 but no arrest have been made so far.
On the contrary, Pesco officials accused the K2 team of causing interference in official work and got an FIR registered against them under Sections 186 and 506 of the Pakistan Penal Code.
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