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Pakistan journalist Hamid Mir barred from hosting his show on TV channel
Pakistan journalist Hamid Mir barred from hosting his show on TV channel
Veteran TV journalist Hamid Mir had delivered a fiery speech at a protest staged by the journalists against an attack by three unknown persons on journalist Asad Toor on Friday in Islamabad.
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Hamid Mir, hosting prime time Capital Talk show on Geo TV, was sent on leave by the TV network which claimed that he was still part of the news channel. (Photo: AP)
Pakistan’s veteran journalist Hamid Mir was stopped on Monday from hosting his popular talk show by a private TV channel after he criticised the country s powerful establishment in the wake of an attack on a fellow scribe.
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Pakistani Military Flexes Muscles Again: Journalist Hamid Mir Taken Off Air Post Criticism
On Monday, senior Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir was stopped from hosting his talk show Capital Talk by the Geo News channel after he criticised the military.
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On Monday, senior Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir was stopped from hosting his talk show Capital Talk by the Geo News channel after he criticised the military establishment. He has been sent on forced leave and another anchorperson will host the five-day-a-week show for now. Mir came under the scanner after he delivered a fiery speech at a protest on May 28 in the wake of the attack on fellow journalist Asad Toor. Three assailants who identified themselves as ISI agents barged into Toor s Islamabad apartment on May 25 and assaulted him.