The Independence Day celebrations by the Indian diaspora in London was disrupted by Pakistani protesters, who pelted stones and eggs on Indians gathered outside the embassy building. Indian journo snatches tri-colour from Pak man, earns praise. The journalist, identified as Poonam Joshi, said she couldn’t withstand what was taking place and decided to take quick action

Poonam added that she has covered many protests in her career but never before had she witnessed such ugly and disrespectful behaviour by protesters

An Indian journalist has earned immense praise for standing up against a Pakistani’s despicable act of vandalising the Tricolour during a protest outside the Indian High Commission in London.

The incident, which took place on August 15, saw a young Khalistani supporter making his way into where a group of Indians stood. He then managed to grab the Tricolour and threw it over to the Pakistan side before returning to his own group.

Here’s the video:
A video, which has now gone viral, showed another Pakistani man mutilating the Indian flag and challenging Indians to retrieve it. While the security present at the location turned a blind eye to the despicable act, an ANI journalist crossed over to the Pakistani side, snatched the Tricolour from the man’s hands and brought it back to the Indian side. The heroic act was caught on camera and shared on Twitter.

“Journalist Poonam Joshi covering for ANI the #IndianIndependenceDay celebrations outside Indian High Commission in London, where Pro-Pak & Pro-Khalistan protests were also underway, snatches 2 torn parts of tri-colour from Khalistan supporters who had seized it from Indians,” news agency ANI wrote on Twitter.

The journalist, identified as Poonam Joshi, said she couldn’t withstand what was taking place and decided to take quick action.

“As I was standing outside the police cordon, I instinctively ran over to the Pakistani side, grabbed the first part of the flag off the floor and the second part from the other man's hands,” Poonam was quoted as saying by ANI.

Poonam added that she has covered many protests in her career but never before had she witnessed such ugly and disrespectful behaviour by protesters.

The Independence Day celebrations by the Indian diaspora in London was disrupted by Pakistani protesters, who pelted stones and eggs on Indians gathered outside the embassy building. After the incident, London Police arrested four people and confiscated a foot-long dagger from one of them.