ISLAMABAD – Airport security personnel was filmed spitting at protestors atIslamabad Airport. He later threw a chair at them when they asked why theywere held for more than 8 hours at Islamabad Airport.
According to the details, a Peshawar bound flight from Riyadh was reroutedto Islamabad due to bad weather in Peshawar.
According to a social media user, Andleeb Sahar, who was on the PIA flight,the plane reached Peshawar on time, however, citing bad weather, the crewtook the plane to Islamabad where they were kept the passengers in anisolated lounge for around 8 hours without being offered clean drinkingwater.
There we were left to the ASF for more than 8 hours. We weren’t evenprovided with clean water to drink. After four hours of flight and so muchwaiting we got restless and tried to protest. We asked the officers to tellus why we were being held there but they never told us.
To counter the protest, the Airport Security Force (ASF) was called by theofficials. One of the officers was seen punching a protestor. Here’s thevideo:
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Andleeb also revealed that they later found out that the weather inPeshawar was not that bad and other flights landed and departed from theairport at the time they were being held up at the airport.
The Civil Aviation Authority is yet to comment on the incident and noaction has been taken against the involved ASF officer.
