Attack on cameraman: Nawaz's security guards sent to jail on judicial remand.

ISLAMABAD -- Two of the former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's security guards on Tuesday were shifted to jail on judicial remand for attacking a television cameraman on duty.

Earlier in the day, a case was registered against the former premier's security guards.

Wajid Ali, a cameraman working for private news channel Samaa TV, was filming Nawaz as he was leaving the Parliament House when his security guards attacked and injured him. Video footage available with media shows the guards chasing the cameraman, who ran to save himself but was eventually overpowered and brought to the ground with kicks to his face.

In the First Information Report (FIR) filed against three of Nawaz's guards, Wajid Ali said he was performing routine coverage of the Parliament session for his channel on Monday. As he began filming Nawaz when the former premier headed out of the Parliament, Nawaz's chief security guard Shakoor asked two other...

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