Raajje TV returns to air with donated equipment, after station’s firebombing
07 Oct 2013, 4:10 PM
Zaheena Rasheed
Hours after an arson attack that destroyed its offices, opposition-aligned TV station Raajje TV began rebroadcasting with donated equipment at 12:40pm today, showing a report compiled with CCTV footage of the destruction of its offices.
“We have to start from zero. But Raajje TV will never die,” the station’s News Head Ibrahim ‘Asward’ Waheed told Minivan News.
The CCTV footage shows five masked men armed with machetes hacking at the locks on a reinforced steel grill. After destroying the lock and yanking open the grill, five men break through a second wooden door as a sixth man holds the building’s security guard hostage.
The footage then cuts to an indoor camera showing the arsonists dousing the station’s computers and desks and main lobby with petrol.
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