Pakistan’s State Owned TV Under Siege By Protestors · Global Voices
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Last update at 7:45PM GMT, September 1, 2014
Hundred of protestors of Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) have stormed into the Head Office of Pakistan's state-owned TV channel PTV. On 1st of September at around 11:20 am protesters broke open the main gate of Pakistan Television (PTV) Head Quarters in Islamabad and the station went off air soon.
Since August 14, 2014, tens of thousands of peaceful protesters have been camping out demanding that the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif should step down.
Journalist Omar Quraishi tweets:
Pakistan's state owned Pakistan Television has gone off air after anti-government protesters stormed its Islamabad headquarters
— omar r quraishi (@omar_quraishi) September 1, 2014
Employees are trapped and harassed says Pakistani blogger Ghazala Khan.
Plz help! Just got call from a friend Shazia, PTV employee who is entrapped inside. She said she has been pinched & beaten#PTI #PAT
— Ghazala Khan (@ghazala_khan) September 1, 2014
DawnNews reports that the army was called in to handle the situation and they cleared the PTV office from protesters in 15 minutes. The TV broadcast has been restored.