Video: Pak cop slapping woman reporter on TV gets Twitterati raging

Videograb of Saima Kanwal in the middle of her live broadcast in Karachi Pakistan before the trooper hit her Pic courtesy TwitterA woman TV reporter was slapped by a constable in Karachi in a government office The act was caught on the security camera and the footage went viral on social media forcing authorities in Pakistan to order a probeInterior minister Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan ordered the inquiry after a female anchor for a local television channel was slapped by a Frontier Corps constable at the office of the National Authority for Database Registration NADRA officials saidMinister Khan has been informed about the incident and he has ordered an inquiry A complete footage of the incident has been dispatched to him officials were quoted as saying in the local media The constable was also seen resorting to aerial firing to scare away the people who were present in the NADRA office at that timeThe viral video has divided Pakistan with many speaking out against the brutality of the security guard but also questioning the aggressive behaviour of the reporter as well ldquoHer behaviour was also not proper and she should not have provoked the guardrdquo Fazil Jamali the President of the Karachi Press Club saidThe video shows the reporter Saima Kanwaland her cameraman trying to enter the NADRA office in Liaquatabad when she shouts loudly on camera that the guards were misbehaving with the people and also with her cameraman The video shows her confronting the guard constantly and warning him to stay away from the cameramanEmphasising her right to report the news Kanwal diverts her camera to the trooper in a bid to shame himldquoDonrsquot you have a mother or sisters Donrsquot you have shame treating people like thisrdquo the reporter asks the constable as she is seen tugging at his badge before he turns around and slaps her and shots are fired The reporter who works for the Karachi based K21 channel said she had gone to the NADRA office after getting complaints about the public facing hardshipsldquoGulbahar police have registered a case against the FC personnel over charges of conducting aerial firing and assaulting modesty of the female reporter of K21 TV channel by slapping her police told Pakistani mediaThe guard has now disappeared but a FIR has been filed against him on the complaint of the reporter However the police have also filed a counter FIR against the reporter on the complaint of the NADRA office head which charges her with obstructing official duty and tearing the uniform of the guardHERES THE VIDEOAnchor person Saima Kanwal amp reporter of K2 news channel being manhandled by FC men Xadeejournalist HamidMirGEO shazbkhanzdaGEO pictwittercomPauedLjwm9mdash Hani Qureshi haniqureshi1 October 20 2016Twitterati reacted with anger at the copsviolent actions against a womanHERES WHAT THEY HAD TO SAYShame on Pakistani paramilitary policeman filmed slapping a woman journalist pictwittercomU0OTYjQfGNmdash Sameer khan Best786Khan October 21 2016PressFreedom PakistaniPoliceman Slaps Woman Reporter During Live Broadcast In Karachi httpstcovHsORvK9Hcmdash Linda Hemby LindaHemby October 21 2016This is so shocking A Pakistani policeman slaps a reporter on national television httpstcoZKc1Kii3ESmdash Soumyadipta Soumyadipta October 21 2016Law exists in Sindh Pakistani Policeman Slaps Woman Reporter During Live Broadcast In Karachi httpstcore4DhP0Lf5mdash Mansoor Qadir Keerio Mansoor_keerio October 21 2016SINDH GOVT must order withdrawal of case against Saima Kanwal Otherwise history might remember this dispensation as Govt of woman beatersmdash Senator T Mashhadi SenatorMashhadi October 21 2016We are with Saima Kanwal she was speaking for people like us NADRA saimakanwalmdash Mehvish Zaryab MehvishHabib95 October 21 2016Condemn the physical attack on the reporter Saima Kanwal and her team Action shd be taken against the culprits httpstcoOuqy7RWbzwmdash Saman JafriOslashsup3UgraveAcircAcircu00c2u0085UgraveAcircAcircu00c2u0086 OslashnotOslashsup1UgraveAcircAcircu00c2u0081OslashplusmnUcircAcircAcircu00c2u008c SsamanJay October 20 2016Strngly cndnm shmful bhviur of scurty prson who slpped female anchor Saima Kanwal today at Nadra khi no action has been takn yet by sniorsmdash Rubina Ibrahim Zehri zehriRubina October 20 2016The journalist also took to Twitter to have her say She claimed that she was attacked because of her gender and that she would prove that women werent weakI was attacked just because Im a woman I wont despair Ill show them todays women arent weak anymore they are stronger than you thinkmdash SAIMA KANWAL iamSaimaKanwal October 21 2016She felt the attack was on truthIm a journalist And being a journalist I was only doing my duty to present truth to the nation The attack on me is an attack on truthmdash SAIMA KANWAL iamSaimaKanwal October 21 2016HERES A GUY WHO THINKS BOTH ARE IN THE WRONGSome are supporting security personal and some are supporting Saima Kanwal However I think both were wrong in their attitudeaction NADRAmdash Mubashir Mahmood mubashirmahmood October 21 2016With Agency Inputs