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| PTV anchor resigns from post amid 'harassment' controversy |
| 2017-03-02 |
| [DAWN] Pakistain Televison (PTV) anchor Tanzeela Mazhar, whose account of harassment and unwanted advances by a senior rocked the media, on Wednesday announced she had resigned from the TV channel. Mazhar wrote in her resignation, which she also tweeted, that: "Things were made very difficult for me to work and I was facing huge psychological torture every day." "Overall, the environment at this office had become absolutely non-conducive and I was being threatened in every possible way to submit to that environment to secure my job and career," she alleged. This, she wrote, happened as a result of her constant complaints against PTV’s current affairs director, "who made unwelcome advances" at her in 2009. "[...] After my resistance/confronting [my abuser] on his attitude, I was exploited and put off screen for [a] few months," she alleged. The Ministry of Information, which has oversight over PTV, was unable to comment on the matter as it was unaware of the development. |
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