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Karachi: Police baton charge, arrest 200 journalists
KARACHI: Police baton charged journalists Tuesday protesting against ban on Geo Television Network and curbs on media outside the Karachi Press Club and arrested over 200 of them including five ladies journalists. The journalists protesting the incident offered collective arrests.
According to reports the representatives of media were going to the Governor House to talk with the authorities when police stopped them. Chasing the journalists’ policemen entered in Karachi Press Club premises and started baton charge over the newsmen in the club wounding several of them.
Those arrested by the police included Geo News journalists Afzal Nadeem Doggar, Abdul Rahman, Tariq Abul Hassan, Tariq Moin, Fahim Siddiqui, Raja Kamran, Najeeb Ahmed, Akhtar Minhas, Faisal Shakeel, Waseem Ahmed, Faisal Aziz, Ghulam Mustafa, Nizam Siddiqui, Mujeed-ur-Rahman, Musa Kaleem, Raja Tariq, Fayyaz Mangi, Ovais Tohid, Muhammad Nazeer, Yaqub Haroon, Dodo Chandio, Asif Mehmood, Akhdar Awan, Ahmed Khan, Qazi Hassan, Naseem Rajpur, Junaid Mumtaz Awan, Amir Ahmed Khan, Shoaib Ahmed, Shoaib Khan Baloch, Javed Mehmend, Muhammad Nazeer, Faizan, Tanveer, Irfan-ul-Haq, Zarrar Khan, Mehboob Akhtar Rind, Bilquis Jehan, Shakeel Salawat, Lalarukh, President Karachi Press Club Sabeehuddin Ghausi, Secretary Imtiaz Faran, President KUJ Shamim-ur-Rahman, treasurer Amir Latif, A.H. Khanzada, Shakeel Khan, Arbab Chandio, Raza Hassan, Arif Kazmi, Hassan Rana, Muhammad Suleman, Khawar Khan, Nawab Ali Shah, Asif Alam, Liaquat Mughal, Shams Imran, Kashif Hussain, Asghar Umar, Ali Shah, Imtiaz Chandio, Zulfiqar Sanwal Shaikh, Yousuf Khan, Mukarram Kaleem, Huma Imtiaz, Faizan Lakhani, Idris Bakhtiar and other leaders of Karachi journalists.
Police also baton charged and harassed the ladies journalists.
The journalists observed protest sit-in against police violence and arrests and announced to offer collective arrests against the incident.
According to reports several injured journalists have been transferred to hospitals for medical aid.
Meanwhile, the number of police and Rangers has been increased outside Karachi office of Geo Television.
The situation has become tense after arrests of several workers of Geo News.
The journalists arrested outside Karachi Press Club have been locked up at various police stations of the city.
Courtesy TheNews