Hamid Mir explains his position on taped conversation with a TTP terrorist; Punjabi Taliban’s press release declares Mir not guilty
This post is in continuation of our original post: Secret audio tape of Hamid Mir’s conversation with a Punjabi Talib associate of Hakimullah Mehsud
Here is a text of Hamid Mir’s e-mail retrieved from PressPakistan google group (circulated today 16 May 2010). Title of the message is: A new web war against Hamid Mir-warning for journalist community (e.g., Source)
Apparently Mr Mir has sent this email to a number of his personal friends and colleagues in order to clarify his position. But is it enough an explanation?
In the main, Mr Mir fails to:
1. provide his version of the story;
2. explain his views on Khalid Khwaja (why did he try to convince the other party that Khalid Khwaja was an Israeli, American and Qadiani agent?);
3. explain his views on Qadianis;
4. explain his links with the Punjabi Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives including Ghazi Abdul Rashid, Javed Ibrahim Paracha, Shah Abdul Aziz etc;
5. explain any linkage of the audio tape to the imminent political and legal events (what events exactly is he referring to, and what is the evidence);
6. confide the identity of the other person he was speaking to;
7. disown his voice and conversation in the audio tape.
At the best Hamid Mir has attempted to confuse his readers by unsuccessfully diverting attention to a plethora of unrelated issues and persons, e.g. Salman Taseer, Jamshed Dasti (fake degree scandal), Asif Zardari (NRO scandal), establishment, missing persons, conspiracy against journalists, judiciary etc.
In other words, Hamid Mir is slinging mud on those who published this tape leading one to believe that he is hiding something.
Can Hamid Mir explain his position in clear words?
Why would Salman Taseer forge this tape, and how?
How did this tape end up at the ISI fan page on facebook?
Why are pro-Zaid Hamid, pro-ISI and pro-Taliban groups thirsty for his blood ever since this tape has been released?
Why are Khalid Khwaja’s family members (son and wife) extremely displeased with Hamid Mir’s role in Khwaja’s death?
Here is an unedited version of Hamid Mir’s email:
Dear All,
Thank you very much for your support. Today publisher of Daily Times and Governor Punjab Salman Taseer created a new record in the history of yellow journalism by publishing a one sided tape drama scandle against me.I would like to remind my journalist colleagues that Salman Taseer published many dirty articles against me in the past when i was banned by Musharraf regime on tv.Today he published the transcript of a concocted tape with some comments on the front page of his newspaper.Yes he tried to kill many birds with one bullet.
This is a conspiracy against me.Khalid Khawaja was assassinated in the month of April and this tape surfaced in the middle of May just few days before some important political and leagal events.I am consulting with my lawyers and i will go into court against Salman Taseer for publishing a one sided concocted story against me.My hands are clear and i have no fear except Allah who have provided me a new opportunity to unmask some more realities in the court of law.
This fabricated tape is part of a bigger drama against journalist community.Some elements want to silence the voice of media on certain national issues by blackmailing journalists like me.These people are very unhappy on those journalists who are raising voice for missing people,who are opposing government stand NRO and who criticized the fake degree holder members of the parliament.Many journalists are disliked by the government and some parts of the establishment.These journalists may become a target one by one.Some government ministers warned me on May 13th that some elements are trying to use the family of Khalid Khawaja against me and journalists like Ansar Abbasi,Kamran Khan and Shahid Masood will also face some new cases.I am sure we will face these kind of fabricated cases with unity.Thanks again for showing solidarity with me.
Hamid Mir
Update: Second explanation by Hamid Mir, which also contains a press release by Punjabi Taliban (Asian Tigers who killed Khalid Khwaja) which in the main corroborate’s Hamid Mir’s explanation. Readers may note how the Punjabi Taliban go in detail in referring to sexy pictures of Salman Taseer’s family etc and also in proving that Mir is not guilty. They appear to be desperate to prove Hamid Mir’s innocence; their respective explanations are quite similar in content. Why?
From: hamid mir
May 16, 7:48 pm
I have already said that this tape was fabricated.Now Taliban have also denied the tap.What is the use of our agencies.These Taliban call people,they send emails and our secret agencies cannot do anything except to launch dirty propoganda against innocent people.Here is the statement with the email address of Taliban.
From: muhammad umer [mailto:…..@gmail.com]
Sent: Sun 5/16/2010 10:48 PM
Cc: talibanmediacenterSubject: press release 16-05-2010 (on Behalf of ASIAN TIGERS)
This is a press release from Taliban Media Center commenting on the fake audio tape issued by some secret agency of pakistan. We are actively condumn the reliability of this tape since there was no conversatin like that in between us and Mr. Hamid Mir.Althoug we have talked with many different persons of media. It
is very often and there is no doubt that they are not involved with us. This is seems to be a conspiracy to destroy the reputation of Mujahideen and the brave people of this
country who want to bring truth in front while revealing the dark faces of this nation.Suppose, this audion tape can be accepted as a true one than it is
also demanded that the video tapes of Shery Rehman, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Salman Taseer should also be treated as the same degree. Since sexy pictures of Salman Taseer’s
daughter and sons are on media so can any one tell the nation how a loose characterd person can be a governor of a province. What action should government agencies took? Why they are delaying?Unfortunately the secret agenceis of Pakistan are directly opposing the nations benefits and try to sabotash the well repudiated personalities and institutions for the greater interst of their own. We also like to remind the fake movie, released
to media for defacing the actual good will of Mujahideen in swat. That was prooved to be faked later but on its basis army did the brutal assault/operation of the whole area. Now people of this country must understand that Mujahideen are not their enemies. But the government, politicians and military
beaurucrates are the real enemies of this nation.Also it is demanded by us that all the relevant records of phone calls in between us and the major media representatives should also be released for public pursuation. ASIAN TIGERS had prooves for their satisfaction that’s why they kidnapped Khalid Khwaja. We contacted the ASIAN TIGERS on this matter and they denied any kind of connections with either Mr.Hamid Mir or any other person related to media. They also condumns the fake audio tape. Also they demanded the actual agenceies who bring this tape. If these agenceies have any kind of proof then they need to bring it in front. Who forced ASIAN TIGERS to kidnap Khalid Khwaja and Colonel Imam with Asad Qureshi. What was the role or Gen. Hameed Gul and Gen. Aslam
Beg. Where you fit Ibrahim Parachi and Shah Abdul Aziz. Either Gen. Hameed Gul and Gen. Aslam Beg are the actual Punjabi Taliban or this tape is the fake one. Ibrahim Parachi is also the CIA agent and Shah Abdul Aziz is a doule agent of Xe and ISI.If Mr. Hamid Mir attracted or give instructions to ASIAN TIGERS in order to kidnap Khalid Khwaja then they must have conversations more than once. These tapes should also be published for media. Are we right in demanding this action? If
Mr. Hamid Mir gave proof to ASIAN TIGERS then he also gave instructions to them for kidnapping Khalid Khwaja & company. We expect that very soon these tapes should also be available on internet and youtube. By the way what exactly the dates of
this tape is.Secondly, who gave the authority to PTCL or any government agency to tape a phone prior to any court order. By doing this PTCL is also establishing it’s reputaion as an alley of terrorists (Govt. of Pakistan, ISI and Army). If this happened again
then PTCL should ready to get the most suitable answer in proper manner. Although we know how PTCL was sold to these culprits and Khwaja was also involed in that deal. Do you want to raise the curtain?PTCl should clear it’s position in order to bring the facts if this
tape is true or fake. If they claim it is a true tape then they also give explanation why they tape these calls. If this is the fake one then they also took legal actions against that agency.If PTCL will not take any action then no problem, we are here and you have a very little time for confession.
Take care.
Note: This statement is on behalf of ASIAN TIGERS(Source: Press Pakistan group)
Update: An edited version of the above press release now published in The News, 17 May 2010
His explanation has only one element, i.e. accusation.
Hamid Mir is busted big time.
دیکھا جو تیر کھا کے کمین گاہ کی طرف
اپنے ہی دوستوں سے ملاقات ہو گئی
Thank you, ISI.
Thank you, Punjabi Taliban.
Some comments by various journalists (Pakistan Press):
Shahid
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More options May 16, 9:47 am
Its interesting to note that all the Hamid Mir supporters have chosen to remain quite about the recording of Hamid Mir posted on Youtube and numerous other sites, today the entire transcript of the said conversation is reporoduced in Daily Times. A Pakistani man (Khalid Khawaja) who is considered little understood was brutally murdered and dumped in the streets of Mir Ali, why should questions not be askd and why should any evidence related to this gruesome act not be aired.
Hamid Mir should come forward and state that the recording is fake and or fabricated. The question that will then arise, why should anyone go to this extent to find someone who can speak exactly like Hamid Mir and make him say all the things only Hamid Mir was privy of, as it concerns only his person and what is the objective of such an act. All the supporters of Hamid Mir should throw some light on this matter and or else be ready to for always be known as taking sides.
As far as I am concerned, I do not know what the truth is in this affair and want it to be cleared ASAP.
nawa…@gmail.com
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More options May 16, 12:58 pm
Dear Mir Sahib,
all journalists will support you as journalist. It is very serious and sensitive to comment on one’s integrity, based on an alleged audio tape. Mir sahib, you did well to speak on the subject but it is a very direct attack on you, so before saying something against the concpirators, you should clarify that the conversation is not yours, which everyone believes. I am sure Khalid Khwaja was not killed on alleged Mir sahaib’s recommendation but he was at hit list of the group. I suspect they planned his killing even before he was kidnapped with his other two friends. The real story will be unfolded in days to come. Mir sahib contest your case in every forum, journalists community will back you in this war……
our pray and support for the truth,
haq nawaz, journalist
rizwan.asif@express.com.pk
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More options May 16, 1:44 pm
dear hamid mir,
you dont explain about tape..voice shows its your..
so you have to explain about it.
rizwan asif daily express
ghazanfar awan
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More options May 16, 2:07 pm
Dear mir sb,
sir,
We all young journalists along with you.
Keep it up and God bless you.
Ghazanfar Awan( daily ausaf lahore
Aurang Zeb
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More options May 16, 4:26 pm
Weldone Ghazanfar Awan ,
We know that all under training agents of different zagencies are with
Hamid Mir. Do you mean this?
Adnan Gill
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More options May 16, 4:50 pm
Mir Sahib,
I have no doubt that Salman Taseer or people like him want to embarass you by releasing this tape. I don’t think anyone is questioning the motives of your opponents, but what I want to know is whether its true or not?
I wish you would have set the record straight by clearly stating, whether it’s your voice on the tape or not? Whether you ever had such a conversation or not?
Folks,
Voice patterns of any given person are as unique as his/her fingerprints. Cheap and more powerful computers have transformed the art of `forensic voice identification` into a science. Such technology had been in use for many years by the CIA and the NSA to identify, isolate and track audio signatures of people of interest out of millions of other noises. Some of American police departments are even using this technology as lie-detectors. Perhaps, a news outlet could make a small investment in buying software like `VoiceVault` to set the record straight, once for all. Instead of guessing, such technologies should enable the media to confirm or deny such accusations.
Adnan
s hussain
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More options May 16, 5:00 pm
It would be nice if Mr. Mir just denied that it was his voice on the tape.
Mansoor Hussain
Ali Hussain
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More options May 16, 6:45 pm
Yes Gill Sahib
I totally agree with you. Mir Sahib should come and clarify the
allegations…whether correct or incorrect. It will be better that Mir Sahib
should come forward after these have been published in Daily Times.
Regards
Ali Hussain
Kamran Shafi
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More options May 16, 7:33 pm
My dear Hamid,
You are a great journalist who has made a name for himself in Talk-show TV – more strength to you.
Importantly, you are not opinionated; give everyone on your show a chance to speak their mind; do not show bias, and so on.
I would therefore ask you NOT to equate yourself with any other journalist on the News/Geo Team, particularly Dr. Shahid Masood who is NOTORIOUS for bludgeoning his guests into acquiescence, if not outright submission … I know, for I have been a victim of his totally unfair editing, to which Ansar Abbasi was witness.
More than anything else, you do not have a second-in-command such as Dr. Shahid Masood has in the shape of my old friend, Tariq Butt. It is unreal seeing these two team up against anyone they have on their show.
I am always for you.
Kamran Shafi
hamid mir
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More options May 16, 7:42 pm
I have just been informed by some colleagues from Peshawar that Taliban have released a statement and categorically denied all the contents of a tape concocted by Salman Taseer.I will share the details after getting the details.
shehryarn…@gmail.com
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More options May 16, 8:02 pm
Well this voice is 100% Mr. Hamid sahib’s..
Adnan Gill
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More options May 16, 8:09 pm
Mir Sahib,
With due respect, it is immaterial and irrelevant to me what (supposed) Taliban say or claim. My interest is in your no uncertain acknowledgment or denial, that you never had any such conversation.
It is up to you whether you want to put the accusation to rest or not by acknowledging or denying it. Thanks.
Adnan
Shocking revelations
Editorial: Shocking revelations
Daily Times, 17 May 2010
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\17\story_17-5-2010_pg3_1
An audiotape doing the rounds in the cyber world has taken the country by storm. One of the country’s top anchors and a prominent journalist, Hamid Mir, while talking to an alleged Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) member, made shocking comments about various things. A transcript of the conversation was published in this newspaper yesterday. The conversation took place a few days before Khalid Khawaja, a former ISI official, was killed last month by a militant group going by the name of the ‘Asian Tigers’. Some are speculating if Mir’s indiscretions played a role in Khawaja’s murder.
There should be a thorough investigation into the matter by the security agencies. It should first be ascertained whether it was actually Hamid Mir or an impersonator on the audiotape. If it is indeed a genuine transcript, Mir’s credentials should come under the scanner. Considering the fact that Mir is a very influential TV anchor, it comes as a surprise that he seems to be involved in murky areas where most journalists fear to tread. Being an investigative journalist does make one come in contact with militant groups so as to get exclusive scoops, but it does not give a journalist the right to incite violence and hatred. If these charges are proved against Mr Mir, he could attract the mischief of the Army Act and Pakistan Penal Code for aiding and abetting terrorists who have declared war on the state of Pakistan and against whom our forces are fighting and dying. These are serious charges and should be dealt with accordingly.
When asked by the unidentified man who Khawaja was working for, Mir opined that he was working for the CIA and not the ISI. He then went on to strengthen his allegation by citing incidents from the past and how close Khawaja was to former CIA chief William Casey and a character called Mansoor Ejaz. Mir alleges that Ejaz could have been an Israeli agent since he tried to persuade Benazir Bhutto to recognise Israel when she was in power. Mir is already on record as having written that Khawaja led a “highly complex underworld life, as a mediator, sometimes on behalf of the Americans, a power-broker, a mover and shaker”. In the audiotape, Mir discloses that Khawaja wanted him to arrange a meeting with Kashmiri mujahideen leader Syed Salahuddin, but he did not because of Khawaja’s links with the Indian government. Mir also implicates Khawaja in the Laal Masjid case and hints that the reason Maulana Abdul Rashid Ghazi opted for death was to wipe out the humiliation of his brother fleeing the mosque wearing a burqa. Mir talks about his friendship with PML-N member Javed Ibrahim Paracha, who is alleged to have spread sectarian terrorism in Kohat and has links to al Qaeda and other terrorist outfits.
Apart from Mir’s conspiracy theories about Khawaja being an agent of the CIA, India and Israel, the most horrifying aspect was to hear Mir spewing venom against the Ahmedis in the audiotape. He alleged that Khawaja was a “Qadiyani agent” and said, “I personally believe that Qadiyanis are worse than the kuffar (infidels)”. The Ahmedis are already a persecuted community in Pakistan and such views by a prominent journalist would put them in further danger. There is already a lot of intolerance because of the extremist mindset that prevails in our society. When such a prominent television commentator and anchor makes such comments, his journalistic ethics must be questioned. These days many anchors and journalists are challenging the credibility of the government, but one must now interrogate their own credibility. It is hoped that the media group Hamid Mir works for would, in its wisdom, distance itself from Mir. Not only has Mir acted in a criminal manner, he has violated all professional ethics as well. Mir must be taken to task so that the people of Pakistan are not misled by his ilk in the future.
About the statement of Taliban, why are Taliban so desperate to prove Hamid Mir’s innocence? If they have no connection with him they should care less to what happens to him.
it’s not really building much confidence in Hamid Mir that he is the one forwarding this press release from Taliban Media Centre…. sounds almost like they are still working together especially since the content of their ‘denials’ are almost the same.
Now his fathers in GHQ are pissed off and this is the reason of the circulation of that conversation’s audio clip . LUBP is targeted once again because we had posted an article with attachment of the link of his conversation’s clip. He didn’t discussed us on Capital Talk but he commanded one of his chaila to write an article in defence of that post. ULTA CHOR KOTWAL KO DAANTAY this time we got label of ISI and MI agents lol =D
Finally Hamid Mir offers a more formal, yet an utterly unconvincing explanation in his article in daily Jang (17 May 2010). Read and judge yourself:
۔ پیپلزپارٹی اور مسلم لیگ (ن) کو موجودہ حالات میں بہت محتاط رہنے کی ضرورت ہے۔ اُن لوگوں سے زیادہ محتاط رہیں جن کی سیاسی بقا دونوں جماعتوں کی لڑائی میں ہے۔ ان میں سے ایک گورنر پنجاب سلمان تاثیر بھی ہیں۔ وہ جب سے گورنر بنے ہیں پیپلزپارٹی کو عدلیہ کے ساتھ محاذ آرائی کی طرف دھکیل رہے ہیں اسی لئے یہ ناچیز اُن پر تنقید کرتا رہا ہے۔
اسی تنقید کے جرم میں سلمان تاثیر نے اپنے اخبار میں ایک نامعلوم شخص کے ساتھ میری مبینہ گفتگو کو صفحہ اول پر شائع کرکے مجھے بلیک میل کرنے کی کوشش کی ہے۔
یہ گفتگو خالد خواجہ کے بارے میں ہے جن سے کچھ عرصہ قبل یہ بیان دلوایا گیا تھا کہ وہ آئی ایس آئی اور سی آئی سے کے لئے کام کرتے ہیں۔ اس بیان کے بعد ہونے والی اس گفتگو میں حامد میر کہہ رہا ہے کہ خالد خواجہ آئی ایس آئی نہیں سی آئی اے کے لئے کام کرتے تھے۔ فون کرنے والا خالد خواجہ کے بیٹے کا القاعدہ سے تعلق جوڑ رہا ہے اور حامد میر کہتا ہے کہ خالد خواجہ سی آئی اے کا آدمی تھا۔ اس قسم کی گفتگو روزانہ کئی لوگ کئی صحافیوں سے فون پر کرتے ہیں تاہم یہ ٹیپ کئی پُرزے جوڑ کر اس انداز میں بنائی گئی کہ خالد خواجہ مرحوم پر راولپنڈی میں ایک مسجد میں خودکش حملے کا الزام لگایا جاسکے او رمجھے بطور گواہ استعمال کیا جاسکے۔ میں مرحوم کے بارے میں جو کچھ جانتا تھا وہ 2 مئی کو روزنامہ جنگ اور دی نیوز میں لکھ چکا ہوں تاہم سلمان تاثیر اگر مزید کچھ ثابت کرنا چاہتے ہیں تو عدالت میں چلے جائیں ورنہ مجھے عدالت میں جانا پڑے گا۔ عدالت میں بہت کچھ سامنے آئے گا۔ سلمان تاثیر نے جس قسم کے الزامات لگائے ہیں یہ الزامات کچھ عرصہ قبل زید حامد بھی لگا چکے ہیں۔ ہوسکتا ہے کہ عدالت کے ذریعہ مجھے بہت سی سچائیاں سامنے لانے کا موقع مل جائے جن میں صدر آصف علی زرداری کا ذکر خیر بھی شامل ہوگا۔ بات نکلی ہے تو پھر دور تلک جائے گی اور پیپلزپارٹی کو بہت جلد پتہ چل جائے گا کہ اُس کی آستینوں میں کون کون سے سانپ گھسے بیٹھے ہیں
Jang, 17 May 2010
Update 17 May 2010: Hamid Mir’s attempt to yet another twisted explanation in The News today:
Grand plot against media
Monday, May 17, 2010
By Hamid Mir
ISLAMABAD: Some elements in the federal government have hatched a grand conspiracy to malign and blackmail the Pakistani media and top of the list is the Jang Group of Newspapers and Geo TV. This grand conspiracy was noticed last Friday when a federal minister made allegations in the National Assembly and said that they have not paid huge amounts of sales tax. Most of the figures presented in the National Assembly were not correct.
The same afternoon, a top government minister told this scribe that “enough is enough” and now they can teach a lesson to Jang Group any time. He claimed that it was only President Asif Ali Zardari who never allowed any “action” against you people otherwise the action would have started long ago. The minister was angry with Ansar Abbasi and Dr Shahid Masood. He claimed that the government had collected a lot of material against these two. Another minister told this scribe the same evening that President Zardari had given a green signal to launch a campaign against some journalists of the Jang Group, including Shaheen Sehbai, Ansar Abbasi, Dr Shahid Masood, Kamran Khan, Hamid Mir and some others. He said that Dr Shahid might be implicated in some forgery case.
Another minister revealed that some people within the establishment suggested to the government to use the family of late Khalid Khawaja against Hamid Mir on the basis of a tape. A top official of the interior ministry rejected this idea and said that these types of concocted tapes cannot be proven in a court of law but the same night some pro-PPP websites launched a campaign against me. The next day, a section of the media belonging to a close friend of President Zardari published a one-sided story with baseless allegations. A newspaper and a TV channel tried to involve me in the murder of Khalid Khwaja.
I will take legal action against all those who started this campaign but one thing must be clear. It is a conspiracy not only against me. The ultimate goal is to silence the voice of Pakistani media on certain issues. Was it a coincidence that PPP Secretary Information Fauzia Wahab addressed a press conference on Saturday against Ansar Abbasi and the next day a full-fledged campaign was launched against me in a section of the media belonging to Governor Punjab?
Many observers have noticed the timing of the campaign against the media men. Khalid Khwaja was assassinated at least two weeks ago but no tape about his murder surfaced anywhere. Fauzia Wahab had exchanged hot words with Ansar Abbasi many times in different talk shows but she issued him a notice only when some important political and legal events are going to take place in coming few weeks. The main objective is very clear. The PPP leadership wants to give a message to the whole media that if they do not behave, then this government will treat them like Pervez Musharraf did.
For some time, the government has been taking many actions to financially damage the Geo-Jang Group because this Group has refused to toe the official line. Similar tactics were used by the previous regime of dictator Musharraf. The democratic government was supposed to tolerate press freedom but this could not happen.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=239716
@Abdul Nishapuri What a hilarious explanation by Hamid Mir.
He says that the tape is a plot against media. Is Hamid Mir an embodiment of the media? What about those sections of the media (in press, TV, blogs) who are sceptical of Mir’s pro-Taliban stance?
Mir must also keep in mind that the PPP wallas and the liberal fascist group is ‘very soft’ compared to what Zaid Hamid, ISI and Khalid Khwaja camp is prescribing for him.
Ghosts of your (not very distant) past are coming to hound you, Mr Mir. Now, be a man!
The linkages between media personal and Taliban are perturbing, this case needs to be investigated as in the cover of freedom of expression many propagate the Taliban ideology either covertly or overtly.
یہ سارے سازشی لوگ ہمیشہ ایک دوسرے کو اجنٹ کہتے ہیں کیوں کے یہ خود کسی اجنڈے پر ہوتے ہیں اور سامنے والے کو بھی یہ سمجھتے ہیں ،سی ائی ے ہو یا آی ایس آی اصل میں یہ سب ابلیس کے اجنٹ ہیں اور ان سب کی ڈور اسی شیطان کے پاس ہے جس کا کام زمین پر خوں خرابہ کرنا اور مذہب کو بدنام کرنا ہے ،یہ سب پہلے کسی ایک کے دشمن ہوتے ہیں اور پھر آپس میں ایک دوسرے کو مارتے ہیں ،پہلے شیطان انہیں چالیں سکھاتا ہے پر یہی چالیں ان پر الٹ کر آتی ہیں ،زید حمد ،حامد میر ،حمید گل وغیرہ سب طالبان کی حمایتی اور ملا عمر کی حکومت چاہتے ہیں اور سارے دھماکوں اور لڑائی کی حمایت کرتے ہیں ،پر ایک دوسرے کو اجنٹ بھی کہتے ہیں ،مَثَلاً حمید گل طالبان کی حمایت بھی کرتا ہے اور یہ بھی کہتا ہے کے انڈیا ان کی مدت کر رہا ہے ،زید حامد ،حامد میر کو امریکا کا اجنٹ کہتا ہے ،اور حامد میر خالد خوجہ کو امریکا کا اجنٹ کہتا ہے ،اور حمید گل خالد خوجہ کو سچا مجاہد کہتا ہے ،اب حمید گل کیوں اپنے سچے مجاہد کے لیہ حامد میر کے خلاف نہیں بولتا ؟ اور اگر خالد خوجہ سے طالبان ناراض ہیں اور اس کو قتل کیا ہے اور لال مسجد میں خالد خوجہ نے دھوکہ دیا تھا تو کیوں لال مسجد والوں نے اور حمید گل نے ان کی نماز-ا- جنازہ لال مسجد میں پڑھی ؟ . پاکستانی فوج اپنے ایک ریٹایر افسر کے قتل پر خاموش کیوں ہے ؟
اور اگر کوئی زید حامد ،حامد میر ،حمید گل ،خالد خوجہ ،حکیم اللہ محسود ،فضلاللہ،عمران خان ،منور حسن ،مسلم خان ،مست گل ،حکمت یار یا کسی خود کش دہماکے پر جانے والے سے پوچھیں تو سب ہی یہی کہیں گے کے وہ اسلام اور پاکستان ہی کے لیہ کام کر رہے ہیں پر آپس میں ایک دوسرے سے بھی دشمن ہیں .
حامد میر خود تو مذہبی آدمی نہیں پر طالبان شیطانوں کی حمایت کرتا ہے ،یہ لوگ ووہی ہیں جن کے بارے میں حدیث کہا گیا تھا کے یہ لوگ اسلام اسلام کی رٹ لگائیں گے اور اسلام ان کے حلق سے نیچے نہیں اترے گا ،اور ان کے دل بھیڑیے جیسے ہونگے اور الله ان کو ایسے فتنوں میں ببتلا کرے گا کے عقل والوں کی عقل دنگ رہ جائے گی .
یہ “دھماکے دھموکے ” کہنے والے لوگ جب الله کی پکڑ میں آئے گے تو پھر پتا چلے گا ، ان “دھماکے دھموکے ” سے ٹی وی پر مزے لینے والوں سے کوئی پوچھے کے اگر ان کا کوئی باپ ،بھائی ،ماں یا بہن شہید ہوں یا اپاہج ہو جائیں تو کیسا لگے گا ؟ ایک تو قتل اور فساد کرنا ،پھر ان کی حمایت کرنا اور اس کو اسلام کے نام پر کرنا الله کے عذاب کو دعوت دینا ہے
In addition to the Punjabi Taliban, Shaheen Sehbai too comes to the aid of his buddy:
renowned TV anchor and journalist Hamid Mir has disclosed that a PPP, nay Zardari, plan is ready to malign and blackmail the Jang Group, Geo TV and some top journalists working for the Group. Nervous PPP ministers have revealed its outlines, both in private and in public.
President Zardari is said to have given a green signal to launch an attack against the Jang Group and some of its journalists including myself, Ansar Abbasi, Dr Shahid Masood, Kamran Khan, Hamid Mir and some others. Mir disclosed that Dr Shahid Masood might be implicated in some forgery case, obviously manufactured when he had briefly become the chief executive of the PTV.
Hamid Mir has revealed, quoting a minister, that President Zardari, who never allowed any “action” against the Jang Group was now “angry” and the government had collected a lot of material against journalists of the group. What material, has not been disclosed. But what an angry president can do is also not clear.
The charges against the Jang Group have been answered in detail and it has been stated clearly on every one of these allegations that the Group has gone to court to seek justice. So the Group is not hiding its case or seeking any concessions. This is what the Zardari camp does not like because the president fears independent judiciary.
As regards the campaign being planned against journalists, including myself, this has been done umpteen times in the past and foolishly so by even Zardari and his PPP. The best that the most vocal crony of Zardari, (Ayatollah) Faisal Raza Abidi, could produce against me in a TV talk show was a fake FIR registered during the Musharraf era when I had started my own web site in late 2002.
That FIR blamed me for stealing a washing machine from the house of a GHQ employee, 18 months after the theft had allegedly taken place. I had supposedly done it when I was the Group Editor of The News then. The people who were involved at that time, later apologised to me in person and confessed they were under pressure. My cousins and relatives, who were arrested and tortured, were honourably acquitted by courts during the Musharraf regime because the prosecution had no case and no evidence. Faisal Raza Abidi was not even born politically then, as he claimed himself in the TV talk show. It was a case like the famous cow theft case registered against Ch Zahoor Elahi, the father of Ch Shujaat Hussain, by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a case which always follows ZAB as his worst acts of vengeance.
Against other journalists like Ansar Abbasi, Hamid Mir or Dr Shahid Masood, who are known critics of the present government, it can be said with full confidence that not one charge can be proved in any court of law by the PPP and Zardari cronies. It is just an offensive, an aggressive tactic to pressure these journalists. They are fully prepared to face these professional hazards and they know the government will face the same humiliation as all others who tried to malign honest and uncompromising journalists in the past. Let them try and taste some dust of their own.
Mukhtar lets the cat out, but PM may quit or he can dissolve assemblies
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
By Shaheen Sehbai
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=239798
HAMID MIR ! GOD BLESS YOU WE ARE PRAYING FOR YOU .
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Hamid Mir explains his position on taped conversation with a TTP terrorist; Punjabi Taliban’s press release declares Mir not guilty http://www.abercrombiecanada.ca/abercrombie-fitch-down-vests-men-c-545 http://www.abercrombiecanada.ca/abercrombie-fitch-down-vests-men-c-545 Hamid Mir explains his position on taped conversation with a TTP terrorist; Punjabi Taliban’s press release declares Mir not guilty