ISLAMABAD: In his first formal interaction with the country’s top spymaster, the prime minister on Monday openly defended the premier intelligence agency in the wake of allegations leveled against him following the April 19 gun attack on television anchor Hamid Mir. Nawaz Sharif praised the role of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in ensuring the “protection […]
KARACHI: The three-member judicial commission, constituted by the Supreme Court to investigate the murder attempt on Geo News senior anchor Hamid Mir, on Monday initiated in-camera proceedings at the Karachi Registry of the apex court. Headed by Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, the commission, which has to ascertain the facts, identify culprits and fix responsibility for […]
KARACHI: A delegation of the Karachi Bar Association (KBA), led by its President Barrister Salahuddin Ahmed, inquired about the health of senior journalist and anchorperson Hamid Mir at a private hospital here on Monday. Talking to Geo News, Barrister Salahuddin Ahmed strongly condemned the attack on Hamid Mir. He said that no curb would be […]
NEW DELHI: Former Indian External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha has urged the Government of Pakistan to provide full protection to Geo News senior anchor Hamid Mir, who received bullet injuries in an attack in Karachi last week. “It would be unfortunate if any harm comes to Hamid Mir or Geo TV on your watch,” Sinha […]
KARACHI: Top police and intelligence officials on Monday recorded their statements before a three-member judicial commission constituted to probe the attack on senior TV anchor Hamid Mir. The commission comprising Justices Anwar Zaheer Jamali, Iqbal Hameedur Rahman and Ejaz Afzal conducted the in-camera proceedings at the Karachi Registry of the Supreme Court. Those who attended […]
“WE cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them,” Albert Einstein had argued. The ruckus kicked up by indignant patriots after the assassination attempt on Hamid Mir proves just that. Outdated notions of national security and national interest and an unflinching commitment to entrench them oppressively are alive and […]
EVENTS over the past two weeks have revealed the degree to which the process of democratisation in Pakistan remains infantile. The cautious optimism, induced by a long-awaited transition from one government to another, masks the degree to which the Pakistani state continues to be seen as distinct from the government manning its various offices. If […]
LAHORE: Lahore Press Club President Arshad Ansari has announced convening a grand convention of all press clubs of the country in Lahore on May 1 in support of the freedom of expression. Addressing the participants of a token hunger strike camp, organised in front of the LPC on Sunday to condemn murder attempt on Hamid […]
BRUSSELS: The Vice President of European Parliament, Edward McMillan, has announced to raise the issue of attack on Geo TV anchorperson Hamid Mir in the European Parliament. Edward McMillan, while condemning the attack on senior journalist, said that he would raise this issue in the European Parliament.David Ward, Member of the Parliament from Bradford West, […]
LAHORE: Known politician Syeda Abida Hussain stressed upon media to be responsible in highlighting issues of national interest. Addressing a ceremony as the chief guest at Tech Club here on Sunday, Abida indirectly criticised the crisis between a private TV channel and ISI. Talking in background of murder attempt on senior journalist and anchorperson Hamid […]
KARACHI: Ordering strict security for the injured Geo News senior anchor Hamid Mir at the Aga Khan University Hospital, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Sunday directed the police and law enforcement agencies to find those involved in the attack. He was chairing a meeting at the Chief Minister House here to review […]
LONDON: Pakistanis in Britain have called on the government of Pakistan to ensure that Hamid Mir gets justice through a thorough and completely transparent investigation into the circumstances surrounding a well-planned gun attack aimed at ending his life in Karachi a week ago. At a large rally held outside Pakistan High Commission here, British Pakistanis […]
ISLAMABAD: Geo News senior anchor Hamid Mir Saturday said that he was again given threats of attack and was being urged to leave the country. Talking to BBC Urdu from the hospital where he is under treatment after deadly attack, Hamid Mir said that that he considered that an ISI within the ISI was responsible […]
ISLAMABAD: Geo News senior anchor Hamid Mir said that the elements giving him threats could not intimidate him as they could gun him down and throw his body on a road but such threats could not deter him from calling a spade a spade. He rebutted a claim of Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan […]
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