RAWALPINDI: Journalists from ARY News, Bol TV, and 92 News were allegedly manhandled by PML-N workers and supporters covering the former prime minister\u2019s rally in Islamabad on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Safdar Klasra, a reporter with Bol TV, told Dawn that he was taking a photo of an ambulance that was stuck in traffic near the Faizabad interchange. \u201cAs soon as I snapped the photo, I was slapped from behind and assaulted by a group of workers,\u201d he said. He said that two of his women colleagues, Benazir Mehdi and Naila Afser, were also manhandled in the melee.<\/p>\n

Office-bearers of the Rawalpindi-Islamabad Union of Journalists condemned the manhandling of reporters and cameramen from private channels by the PML-N workers during Nawaz Sharif\u2019s rally in Rawalpindi.<\/p>\n

Even Maryam Nawaz Sharif took to Twitter to warn supporters not to mistreat mediapersons. \u201cDear PMLN supporters, pls refrain from attacking or misbehaving with anti-N media houses. It\u2019s neither our party culture nor NS legacy,\u201d she tweeted.<\/p>\n

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