Jun 15th

The following story was published in “The News” on May 20th, 2010:

Committee to probe charges against Hamid Mir
Thursday, May 20, 2010 ISLAMABAD: A conversation purportedly between Hamid Mir, the host of Geo programme ‘Capital Talk’ and columnist of daily Jang, has been uploaded on different websites, says a statement issued by the spokesman of Geo/Jang Group.A committee has been constituted by the Group to get detailed information in this connection. Members of the committee have held preliminary talks with Hamid Mir in which he has disowned the voice (said to be his) and termed the audiotape fabricated. For credible investigation, the committee has called upon professional journalist organisations to come forward to uncover the truth.Hamid Mir has assured that he would fully cooperate in the investigation so that the truth is unearthed. He also said that some people want to ostracise him from the profession and they are defaming him as part of a conspiracy.

What happened to the announcement of Jang Group that they have constituted a committee to probe Hamid Mir?

1. Did Mir beg to the owner of Jang Group to cancel the inquiry?

2. Or maybe the other Mir Jaffer i.e. Shakil-ur-Rahman canceled the inquiry to protect himself?

3. Or maybe some greens changed hands.

What ever the reasons are let us be assured that justice will never be done. After all justice is only for the poor people of Pakistan. I would’ve thought that the government or the CJ would’ve taken action but then again Pakistan is a Banana Republic. Mir is still continuing to host the GEO TV program “Capital Talk” while the son of Khalid Khawaja is still trying to lodge a FIR against him. What a shame!!



This syndicated post originally appeared at on 15 June 2010