ISLAMABAD: The capital police faced another embarrassment when two persons charged with attacking PTV building were identified as employees of the state-run TV channel.

Earlier on Saturday, the Margalla police nominated PTI leader Fouzia Kasuri in an FIR along with Azam Khan Swati, Faraz Khan Shibli, Syed Raza Ali Shah, Ali Awan and Nafeesa Khattak for allegedly attacking police vehicles in F-8 sector in a bid to set free the arrested party workers.

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However, later it emerged that Ms Kasuri was in the US at the time of the incident. The police then excluded her name from the FIR.

The police were left red-faced after two persons approached senior police officers and informed them that they were PTV employees and had wrongly been included in the list of 70 people who stormed the building.

The police had claimed that after examining evidence, including the footages from PTV, they spotted 70 attackers.

A cash reward of Rs100,000 was also announced for anyone who helped the police identify the attackers.

The police officials said one of the PTV employees was a driver and the other was an associate producer.

Published in Dawn, September 16th , 2014