Ali Bhai Kamran
\nIslamabad
\nA dramatic scene was witnessed outside the Supreme Court after the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz\u2019s (PML-N) leader Anusha Rahman allegedly snatched mobile phone of a journalist, Azam Gill, working for a private TV channel.
\nReportedly Azam Gill snapped the IT Minister while she was whispering with Railways Minister Saad Rafiq in the lobby of the Supreme Court.
\nAnusha Rahman allegedly snatched the phone and deleted the video. According to reports, she threatened the reporter with 14-year imprisonment.
\nJournalists lodged protest against Minister for IT Anusha Rehman\u2019s action and raised slogans during media talk of PML-N\u2019s leaders.
\nThe protesting journalists , who accused Anusha Rehman, minister of state for IT, of unlawfully seizing journalist Azam Gill\u2019s phone and threatening him with 14 years in prison , refused to let Minister for Railways Khawaja Saad Rafique address the government\u2019s daily press conference on the Panamagate case, shouting him down despite his repeated attempts to speak.
\nThe phone was later returned to the journalist, but the protestors took issue with the \u2018harassment\u2019 of one of their peers.
\nSaad Rafique attempted to defuse the situation by appealing that the journalists exercise restraint and let the government address the issue in due time.
\nHe conceded that it was inappropriate that a journalist\u2019s phone had been seized, but also pointed out that regulations do not allow individuals to shoot videos within court premises and that the journalist should not have done so. Marriyum Aurangzeb, the minister of state for information and broadcasting, took over after Rafique\u2019s attempts to contain the situation failed, asking the protesting journalists to resolve the matter in a separate meeting in her office.
\nHowever, there was no let-up in the sloganeering and jeering, as the journalists would not allow the government to speak before Anusha Rehman was summoned and the \u2018injustice\u2019 was addressed then and there.
\nWhen Rafique attempted to plow through the briefing, the press corps broke up, with a large number of journalists and camera crews rising up and refusing to cover the proceedings.
\nRehman, in a later press conference, claimed that she seized the phone because the journalist in question was \u201csecretly filming\u201d her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ali Bhai Kamran Islamabad A dramatic scene was witnessed outside the Supreme Court after the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz\u2019s (PML-N) leader Anusha Rahman allegedly snatched mobile phone of a journalist, Azam Gill, working for a private TV channel. Reportedly Azam Gill snapped the IT Minister while she was whispering with Railways Minister Saad Rafiq in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n