Pakistan’s state-run PTV has suspended 17 officers for failing to ensure “proper” insurance of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s Lahore go to because of the non-availability of a sophisticated pc.
The newly-elected Prime Minister visited Kot Lakhpat Jail and Ramazan Bazaars in Lahore ultimate week.
However, a Pakistan Television (PTV) group did not ensure “proper” insurance because of the non-availability of a sophisticated pc required to add the video photos via File Transfer Protocol (FTP), the Dawn newspaper reported.
As according to the same old running procedures, a VVIP group comprising newshounds and manufacturers is answerable for the insurance of the top minister. The group is geared up with the trendy gadgets, which includes laptops for stay streaming and well timed importing of the photos of any event, the file said.
The middle group is stationed in Islamabad and movements with the Prime Minister throughout the united states and abroad, it said.
When the PTV Lahore centre became knowledgeable approximately the go to, it requested the PTV headquarters to offer a sophisticated pc, it said.
Earlier on April 18 also, the Lahore centre wrote a letter to the headquarters saying: “Since we have no pc modifying facility on the Lahore centre, we employed a pc with the modifying facility… however as a everlasting association we need to very own the equal facility on the centre.”
However, the state-run TV did now no longer pay any interest and counseled hiring one again.
At this, the Lahore centre organized the non-public pc of an official. After insurance, while the group attempted to transmit the photos, it located the battery of the pc had drained.
Next day, the PTV management suspended a complete of 17 officers, which includes the VVIP insurance deputy controller Imran Bashir Khan.
In addition, the management suspended diverse engineers and cameramen over the alleged neglect.
The suspended personnel claimed that they were scapegoated with the aid of using the management appointed with the aid of using the preceding regime for you to store the bigwigs, the file added.