A Pakistani woman journalist was slapped by a paramilitary police officer while she was filming a report on alleged wrongdoings at a government office in Karachi, with a video of the incident going viral.

Watch the video of Pakistani police officer beating Pakistani female journalist

Saima Kanwal, a reporter with K21 news channel, went to an office in Nazimabad area where people apply for national identity cards to expose alleged wrongdoings and inefficiency. Kanwal pursued one of the guards from the paramilitary Frontier Constabulary, whom she accused of misbehaving with members of the public.

As Kanwal asked her cameraman to film her efforts to question the guard, the guard retaliated by slapping her. Soon after, the cameraman loses his balance and there are the sounds of shots being fired. Witnesses said that the guard resorted to firing in the air to clear the office soon after he slapped the reporter.

A case has been registered against the Pakistani trooper for “conducting aerial firing” and “assaulting” the reporter after the video went viral.