Suspects arrested for assaulting Tribune staffer
Suspects in a military van. PHOTO:EXPRESS
KARACHI: Police in a raid on Sunday arrested 3 private confidence guards from a PML-F leader’s chateau for assaulting Zubair Ashraf, a staffer of The Express Tribune.
According to SSP South Saqib Ismail Memon, a military raided Pir Yasir’s chateau in a Defence Phase 8 area of Karachi. The suspects incarcerated during a raid enclosed Majnon, Ghulam Shabbir and Altaf Hussain. The military have also incarcerated 3 military guards for questioning.
Ashraf was assaulted by a private guards when Pir Yasir’s procession was channel Korangi Road during around 7pm on Saturday
According to Ashraf, he along with his co-worker photojournalist Athar Khan, were streamer to a bureau pillion roving a motorcycle, when a wastefully driven vehicles in a procession of Shah attempted to pass all other motorists in front of a National Medical Centre (NMC) Hospital.
PML-F confidence group attack Tribune staffer
Many motorists, mostly motorcycle riders, narrowly transient being strike by a chaperon vehicles, as they kept pulling everybody aside to secure Shah, who was pushing a car himself.
When riders attempted to argue, a guards started melancholy a open and a ensure forked a gun during Ashraf while another dual started violence him with batons.
An FIR was also lodged opposite a PML-F personality after on Saturday night.
The PML-F Karachi section boss has also certified that a car belonged to him and he was pushing it.
Condemnations
Condemning a incident, Minister of State for Information Marriyum Aurangzeb positive that a law will take a march in a woe of a staffer of The Express Tribune.
In a matter released on Sunday, she pronounced no form of hooliganism will be tolerated. “The supervision stands with a journalists’ community,” she added.
Meanwhile, a Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) and all publisher unions in a nation cursed a attack on Ashraf and urged a supervision to detain a culprits concerned in a case.
PFUJ’s President Rana Muhammad Azeem, General Secretary G M Jamali; KUJ President Hassan Abbas and General Secretary Wajid Raza Isfahani; Hyderabad, Nawabshah, Sukkur, Rahim YAR Khan, Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab, Gujranwala, Sargodha, Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Abbottabad, Gujrat, Faisalabad, Quetta and Bannu unions of journalists also cursed a incident.
PFUJ, in a statement, also lamented that notwithstanding an alleviation in a city’s law and sequence there are some elements in a city plainly displaying arms and review to hooliganism. They combined that such elements are melancholy to interrupt a city’s softened law and order.
They also urged Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah, Sindh IG, home minister, DG Rangers and Karachi corps commander to take notice of a occurrence and voiced oneness with Zubair Ashraf.
They also lamented that notwithstanding relapse of 24 hours a interior apportion is nonetheless to take notice of a incident.
The PFUJ and KUJ warned a Sindh supervision that such acts of hooliganism will not be tolerated and pronounced that they will announce their destiny march of movement in due course.
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