Hamid Mir’s reply to Marvi Sirmed’s open letter
From: hamid mir (email add removed)
Date: May 31, 2010 12:43:08 AM GMT+06:00
To: Marvi Sirmed
Cc: pakistanpress
Subject: Re: An Open Letter to Hamid Mir from a Common Citizen
| Dear Marvi Sarmad,
I have just seen your letter.I appreciate your concern and i am responding your questions despite the advise of my friends and lawyers not to speak on this issue because i can face some legal problems in the future.I don’t know much about you.I only know that you are working with some NGO.I have read some of your comments in the past about media and i know you are a critic of us. First of all i would like to tell you that how i came into contact with Taliban as a journalist.It was PPP Interior Minister who convinced me to listen the Taliban point of view after my column against them.Here is the link of an old article.Please read it. You said that first i blamed President Zardari and then i blamed ISI for the tape scandal.Then according to you i met President Zardari and i changed my stance.I think you need to give me some references that where and when i said these things?Initially a PPP Senator was speaking against me on different channels.Journalists were asking me questions that do i think it is PPP behind this compaign?I was only saying may be PPP is involved because Senator belonged to PPP.I was trying to avoid making comments but some of journalists,not all of them were publishing stories according to their wishes.I never blamed ISI anywhere.I never met President Zardari in last three weeks.Yes i recieved his messages through different sources that one PPP senator was speaking against me due to some misunderstanding and PPP is not involved in this conspiracy.Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira clerified the whole thing on many TV shows. You also said that i never spoke or wrote about some holy cows.I don’t now what do you mean by holy cows but here is one article about a holy cow I recieved threats from Taliban and extremists many times because i did lot of shows against sucide bombings.Some of religious scholars who appeared on my shhows were assassinated by Taliban like Dr.Sarfraz Naeemi.Last year my kids were attacked in Islamabad.JUI-F threatened to kill me.This new group Asian Tigers sent me many threatening emails and i wrote a column against them on May 6th in Jang. I can give you references of many columns in Jang and The News written by me against Taliban.Here is one example Now come to other questions. I never had any information about any upcoming operations in North Wazirastan.I never attended any official briefing of ISPR or the Interior Ministry about any operations in FATA in last three four months.I never shared any information in this regard with any unidentified person. I am a proud Muslim.I believe in constitution of Pakistan and this constitution have declared Pakistan an”Islamic Republic” so i am not apologatic of being a Muslim.People know i am a follower of Jinnah and that was why many religious groups hate me like some anti-Islam liberals. Ahmadis are citizens of Pakistan.Our constitution have declared them non-Muslims but it is our duty to provide them security.They are equal citizens like others as i have also written today in my letter published in The News(Sunday). Some people like Zaid Hamid have declared me a CIA agent.Some people declared that Khalid Khawaja was a CIA agent.Some people say that he was Taliban agent.No private citizen or group have the right to punish anyone by declaring him a CIA or Taliban agent.Only courts of Pakistan have the right to perform that duty. Your questions about Taliban are based on some misunderstandings.I have always opposed and condemned their so-called Jehad in Pakistan.I have suffered a lot from their hands and i feel pain when i am answering this question.Please provide me any evidence that in which show or column i supported them?You have used very objectionable language in your questions but i am responding because my hands are clean. I never demanded any operation in Lal Masjid.In fact i told Musharraf in his face in June 2007 that he was using Lal Masjid drama for diverting the public attention from lawyers movement.I did a show inside Lal Masjid with a government minister Tariq Azim and Maulana Abdul Aziz.They agreed to resolve the issue through peaceful means but Musharraf started operation on July 9th just to divert attention from the APC called by Nawaz Sharif in London.It was a political drama.There were Muslims on both sides none was baatil.I think that some misguided people challenged the writ of state but they were instigated by some government agents. Now you are asking questions about three years old shows.I never did any one sided show on Lal Masjid.Yes i invited one student of Jamia Hafsa but with a very powerful government minister Javed Ashraf Qazi(Ex DG ISI) was also sitting with her and at many times i disagreed with the girl.I challenge you to prove that it was a one sided show.I will quit TV if you prove that. You asked me that what is my cause?I think you dont watch my shows.I have said it many times that ideology of Jinnah should be our cause.I want to see a Pakistan according to the wishes of Allamah Iqbal and Jinnah.If it is objectionable for you then you are free to hate me. Please mention the date of the other program you mentioned.I think you are mixing me with someone else. Tape conversation is full of lies about me.I never resigned from Daily Ausaf because of Khalid Khawaja.It a white lie.I resigned from Ausaf to join Jang Group. Everybody was aware that Khalid Khawaja was kidnapped from North Wazirastan on March 26th.How can i say on thephone to a Taliban militant that Khawaja sahib was in Darra Adamkhel with Tariq Afridi?If the other person was a Taliban militant then why was he asking to me that where is Khalid Kahwaja? I expect that you must read the application against me given to the police.This application claimed that i sent Khalid Kahwaja sahib to North Wazirastan.I had no contact with him from a very long time.Application said that one journalist purchased the tape from his unknown source for one Lakh rupees.Who is that source?Why a journalist is being used against me. I am innocent and time will prove that all the alleggations against me were baseless. Regards, Hamid Mir |
You can see the open letter to Hamid Mir by opening this link ‘ An open letter to Hamid Mir from a common citizen – by Marvi Sirmed ‘.
Despite some political and ideological differences with Hamid Mir sahib, I commend him for showing utmost courage in responding to Marvi Sirmed’s letter.
I will offer my reflections on Mir Sahib’s letter in due course.
Hamid Mir’s twists and turns shall continue…
This time…
-he is anti taliban
-he wrote against holy cows
-he in any way dissociated himself from the tape and its contents.
-he donot blame Salman Taseer, Husain Haqqani and LUBP.
-He told us of the ideology, Jinnah and Iqbal.
-Another twist regarding tape origin.
-it shall goes on and on..
I personally feel that the matter of Hamid Mir will go to waste unless and until Khalid Khawaja’s family takes him on in a criminal case. The Ahmediyya community also need to build pressure about the way hate messages are spread against them by powerful media personalities.
regarding his twist and turns, he is from the media and it’s his lifeline.
Mir sahib,
In the following note, my focus is only upon your treatment of Ahmadis. In this respect, I find some obvious inconsistencies in your above letter and your published articles:
1. You use the (relatively) appropriate term ‘Ahmadis’ in your letter while in your published articles you use “Qadians’. For example in your article in Jang on 7 September 2009.
http://criticalppp.com/archives/1421
and also in today’ s Jang (31 May 2010):
http://search.jang.com.pk/details.asp?nid=437500
2. You have been involved in hate speech and malicious propaganda against Ahmadis. For example your article in Jang on 7 September 2009 in which you suggest that they are part of a conspiracy to create civil war in Karachi.
http://criticalppp.com/archives/1421
3. In your article in today’s Jang, once again you doubt whether Taliban are responsible for the Ahmadi massacre in Lahore. This is despite the fact that the Punjabi Taliban have ‘proudly’ claimed responsibility of this barbaric act. Instead, consistent with a Taliban apologist discourse, you attribute the Lahore Ahmadi massacre not to Taliban’s sectarian tendencies but to a (mysterious) conspiracy against Islam and Pakistan. For example, you write:
ان حملوں کا بظاہر تو ہدف قادیانیوں کی دو عبادت گاہیں تھیں جن میں ایک سو کے قریب نہتے لوگ مارے گئے لیکن غور کیا جائے تو حملہ آوروں کا اصل ہدف اسلام اور پاکستان تھا۔ تحریک طالبان نے ان حملوں کی ذمہ داری قبول کرلی ہے اور یہ تحریک پاکستان میں شریعت نافذ کرنا چاہتی ہے۔ اگر واقعی یہ حملے تحریک طالبان نے کئے تو پھر اس تحریک نے عالم اسلام کی پہلی ایٹمی طاقت کے یوم تکبیر کو نشانہ بنایا۔
4. I know that you have disowned your conversation with a Punjabi Taliban terrorist, but deep in your heat you know what the truth is. Can you very clearly refute if you ever said these words to anyone in any conversation: “main qadianion ko kafir say bhi bad tar samajhta hoon’ I consider Qadyanis to be worst than infidels. Did you ever utter these words?
5. In view of the above, still you have the audacity to write the following words in today’s Jang:
سچی بات تو یہ ہے کہ جب ایک دفعہ آئین پاکستان میں قادیانیوں کو اقلیت قرار دے دیا گیا تو پھر اُن کے حقوق کا تحفظ ریاست کی ذمہ داری تھی۔ 28 مئی کو اُن کے ساتھ بہت ظلم ہوا اور ہمارے سرندامت سے جُھک گئے ۔ حکومت کو اور ہر سچے پاکستانی کو 28 مئی کے سانحے پر قادیانیوں کے ساتھ معذرت کرنی چاہئے۔
Are you sure your words and actions are making your great father proud of what you have become?
آپ ہی اپنی اداؤں پہ ذرا غور کریں
ہم اگر عرض کریں گے تو شکایت ہو گی
@Nishapurikabaap Why abuse? We will provide you full opportunity to criticize any person (including myself) or this blog. Why lose your cool? Do write a post (or comment). We will publish it.
Be a good Muslim. If not, be a good human.
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Sorry i have to delete your comment.. Pl come again with a positive comment or do write a post against us, we’ll post it for sure.
@Farhad Ahmed Jarral lol Farhad. I did not delete the comment intentionally in order to avoid personally motivated censorship.
I am sorry but it was necessary to delete that comment as the person had used abusive words.
I just dont understand why Hamid Mir thought to give this much importance to Marvi. He is a renown figure and has a standing in Pakistan. He, government and taliban whatever is the going is no one’s business. Everyone one who can write a few line is English does not have certificate to write anything about anyone. I know many a few, you always try to prove through their write up how much is wrong with country and our religion but they never show you the brighter part of our country. These activist are now know commonly. These people deserve to be taken under the law and should be punished through Islamic laws, blasphemy law will remain and it should remain…
Hamid Mir as a supporter and spokes man of Taliban
http://search.jang.com.pk/archive/details.asp?nid=392967
قرآن کی پکار….قلم کمان …حامد میر
“حالیہ خودکش حملوں سے یہ تو واضح ہے کہ طالبان اپنی جنگ جنوبی وزیرستان میں نہیں بلکہ پشاور، راولپنڈی، اسلام آباد اور دیگر شہروں میں لڑیں گے”
” تمام مکاتب فکر کے علماء اور اہم سیاسی جماعتوں کے ساتھ مل کر مربوط حکمت عملی بنائے اور ایک ایسا مصالحتی گروہ بنانے پر غور کرے جو مسلمانوں کے دو گروہوں میں لڑائی بند کرانے کا راستہ تلاش کرے کیونکہ مسلمانوں کے کئی دشمن اس لڑائی سے خوب فائدہ اٹھارہے ہیں۔ وزیر داخلہ رحمان ملک نے خودکش حملے کرنے والوں کو کرائے کے قاتل قرار دیا ہے۔ وہ قاتلوں کی مذمت تو کرتے ہیں لیکن انکے کرائے ادا کرنیوالوں کا نام کیوں نہیں لیتے؟
پاکستان میں دہشت گردی اسی وقت رُکے گی جب ہم مساجد میں بچوں کو قتل کرنیوالوں کی مذمت کے ساتھ ساتھ قبائلی علاقوں میں بے گناہ لوگوں کو مارنا بندکریں گے، ڈرون حملوں کے خلاف عملی طور پر اُٹھ کھڑے ہوں اور غیرملکی مداخلت مسترد کردیں۔ ہم قرآن کی پکار سن لیں تو ہماری اندرونی لڑائی ختم ہوجائے گی لیکن خدانخواستہ ایسا نہ ہوا تو آپس میں لڑنے والے دونوں گروہ آخرکار بیرونی دشمن کے نشانے پر ہوں گے۔
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In this column Hamir Mir is saying that all taliban anr US agent
http://jang.com.pk/jang/oct2010-daily/14-10-2010/col5.htm
Is there any way for the reader to optin your site via other ways beside with RSS? I never read it using my readers whil it is possible to see it using browser.
People like Marvi sirmed are not worth to be taken seriously. there was no need of replying to her letter. Pakistan was, is, will be an islamic state for eternity.