TAXILA: Policemen, led by a sub-inspector, snatched a camera and misbehaved with journalists, who were covering the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) rally coming from Hazara on Hazara Road, near Hassanabdal, on Thursday.

Sadaqat Ali, a stringer of an Urdu television channel and the general secretary of Hassanabdal Press Club, was covering the rally that was coming from different areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Hazara division. The policemen, however, snatched his camera and misbehaved with him.

Later on, local journalists protested the incident and demanded action against the policemen.

Published in Dawn, August 15th, 2014

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