Muhammad Ansar | Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF)

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Journalist manhandled and briefly detained by police

Pakistan Press Foundation

On 20 December, 2015 Muhammad Ansar, a reporter of Aaj News television channel was manhandled by police for covering the allegedly illegal closing down of sugar mills in Tando Muhammad Khan, a district in the southern part of Sindh province in Pakistan. Police tried to prevent Ansar from filming the protest of laborers. Police also […]


AAJ NEWS REPORTER MANHANDLED BY POLICE

Pakistan Press Foundation

Police subjected an Aaj News reporter to torture for covering the purportedly unlawful closure of a sugar mills in Tando Muhammad Khan, Aaj News reported. Quoting unnamed sources, the channel said that two years ago an influential personality of Sindh had tried to take over the mills, but its owners refused to sell it. After […]