K-P Media Attack: Journalists condemn police assault

Journalist, cameraman were allegedly assaulted while covering a demonstration against loadshedding.

CHARSADDA: Journalists Associations of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) strongly condemned a police attack on journalists on Friday. Sher Ali Khan, correspondent for a news agency in Charsadda, along with a cameraman for private TV channel, Siraj Ali, were allegedly assaulted while covering a demonstration against loadshedding on Friday. The police snatched their cameras and tried to destroy their footage. Due to a brutal baton charge Sher Ali sustained severe head injuries and one of his fingers was broken. He has been admitted in District Headquarters Hospital, Charsada.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 13^th, 2012.