Monday, September 1, 2014

Anti Government Protesters storm Pakistani national television – VRT News

Television channel PTV showed live pictures of the crowd that broke through the gate and as the building of the national television penetrated. Armed with bats they destroyed some plants and laid the broadcasts stopped. The Pakistani military has meanwhile with help from paramilitaries know the protesters from the buildings of the television to catch up. That action went according to initial reports without incident.

Twitter has opposition leader Imran Khan, the storming of the television convicted. According to Khan “wrongs” that the case of the opposition against the government.

Stark protests

The protests in the streets of Islamabad last for more than two weeks and they are increasingly grim. Last weekend were three deaths when police intervened. Last night and this morning still trying to reach, where the official residence of Prime Minister Sharif. Government district, the protesters The police charged and used tear gas against the demonstrators. The Pakistani army, the police instructed to stop using the protesters.

The protesters are supporters of Imran Khan, a former cricketer who is now a nationalist politician and Tahir ul-Qadri, a religious violence leader based in Canada. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif won according to them, the parliamentary elections of May 2013 due to fraud. They want him to resign.

The army is trying to mediate between the opposition and government, a few days but that seems to provisionally. Not improve the situation General Raheel Sharif of the Pakistan Army had a conversation with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today (the two are namesakes, but not related), but the content was not disclosed.

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