Attack on cameraman: Nawaz's security guards sent to jail on judicial remand

ISLAMABAD: Two of the former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's security guards on Tuesday were shifted to jail on judicial remand for attacking a television cameraman on duty.

Earlier in the day, a case was registered against the former premier's security guards.

Wajid Ali, a cameraman working for private news channel Samaa TV, was filming Nawaz as he was leaving the Parliament House when his security guards attacked and injured him. Video footage available with Geo News shows the guards chasing the cameraman, who ran to save himself but was eventually overpowered and brought to the ground with kicks to his face.

In the First Information Report (FIR) filed against three of Nawaz’s guards, Wajid Ali said he was performing routine coverage of the Parliament session for his channel on Monday. As he began filming Nawaz when the former premier headed out of the Parliament, Nawaz’s chief security guard Shakoor asked two other guards to attack him, the cameraman recounted.

He tried to run away, but the two guards whose names he did not know caught up with him and tortured him. One of the guards told him he would be shot dead if he dared to come near again, Wajid Ali was quoted as saying in the FIR.

He then lost consciousness, and when he came to again, he was in hospital, the cameraman said.

The FIR has been registered against Shakoor and the other two unnamed guards.

One of the guards was caught by journalists at the site of the incident before he could escape. He was handed over to Parliament House security. Another guard managed to flee.