Reporters walk out from Parliament over Geo News attack

ISLAMABAD: Journalists staged a walkout from the press gallery in the Parliament to mark their protest against the repeated attacks on the office of Geo News in Islamabad.

On the intervention of the Information Minister, Senator Pervez Rashid the reporters ended their protest and came back to their seats to cover the proceedings.

On the occasion, Pervez Rashid said last night when the Geo News office was attacked he was in the Programme of its senior anchor Salim Safi.

He said the country is confronted with a new trend of hooliganism where anybody who disagrees on anything gets attacked.

Rashid, however, said that it is not the weakness of the government yet it may be termed ‘our negligence’. But, he added, one thing is for sure that ‘we stand with the media’.