(PPF/IFEX) – On 15 April 2005, several journalists and photographers were injured as police charged a crowd that had gathered at Karachi’s Cantonment Railway Station. The police used batons to disperse the gathering. The journalists had gone to the station to cover the departure of 200 members of the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) who […]
(PPF/IFEX) – On 15 April 2005, several journalists and photographers were injured as police charged a crowd that had gathered at Karachi’s Cantonment Railway Station. The police used batons to disperse the gathering.
The journalists had gone to the station to cover the departure of 200 members of the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) who were travelling to Lahore to greet Asif Ali Zardari, PPP leader and husband of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. Zardari was returning to Pakistan from Dubai.
Three journalists were injured in the police action. Malik Munawar, of “Daily Asas Karachi”, Tasadduk Ghouri, of “Janbaz Karachi”, and Yaseen Jabalpuri, of APNA TV, were taken to hospital for treatment.
The Karachi Union of Journalists condemned the police action and demanded the government take action against the officers responsible for the violence.
