PAKISTAN: Renowned journalist, television anchor shot and wounded in Pakistan

Record ID: 354723

  • Title: PAKISTAN: Renowned journalist, television anchor shot and wounded in Pakistan
  • Date: 19th April 2014
  • Summary: KARACHI, PAKISTAN (APRIL 19, 2014) (REUTERS) POLICE AT CRIME SCENE POLICE TALKING TO EACH OTHER, AMBULANCE PARKED IN BACKGROUND POLICE SURVEYING CRIME SCENE WITH FORENSIC EQUIPMENT PIECES OF BROKEN GLASS ON GROUND POLICE AND ARMED SOLDIERS STANDING SENIOR POLICE OFFICIAL, PIR MOHAMMAD SHAH, TALKING TO A PRIVATE SECURITY GUARD 7 (SOUNDBITE) (Urdu) SENIOR POLICE OFFICIAL, PI
  • Embargoed: 4th May 2014 13:00
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  • Location: Pakistan
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Topics: Crime,Communications,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA6TQVAX3HPR04SU74MSVMHPUMK
  • Story Text: A renowned journalist and talk show host at a leading Pakistani television is shot and wounded by gunmen in Karachi.

    Unidentified gunmen shot and wounded a renowned journalist and talk show host, working at a leading Pakistani television, in the country's biggest city Karachi on Saturday (April 19), police said.
    Hamid Mir, the anchor of the popular talk show on Geo Television, 'Capital Talk', was on his way to his office from Karachi airport when he was attacked by gunmen on Shahrah-e-Faisal, a popular boulevard in the eastern part of the city.
    Senior police officer Pir Mohammad Shah said one gunman first opened fire on Mir's car, followed by others who chased him on motorcycles.
    "A man covered with a shalwar kameez opened fire first, another man was following him on motorbike, he came up behind him. At the same time the driver who was in Mr. Mir's car along with the guard, sped away. They (attackers) chased after them but the driver was not hit, praise be to God, otherwise the damage would have been far worse had he stopped," Shah told reporters
    Police said Mir was shot three times in the stomach and legs, but is expected to survive.
    According to Geo Television, Mir was rushed to a hospital where doctors operated on him to removed the bullets.
    In November 2012 a bomb was found under Mir's car, following threats from Pakistan's Taliban for his coverage of the Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the militants.
    Pakistan is one of the world's most dangerous countries for journalists, according to press freedom groups.
    The Committee to Protect Journalists says 46 journalists and media workers have been killed in Pakistan since 2007.
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