Hamid Mir Survives Gun Attack

It was recently reported from Karachi that unknown gunmen on motorbikes open fired at a famous Pakistani television anchor, Hamid Mir, while he was travelling on a busy road on Saturday.

Hamid Mir, who serves as a host on a popular TV show which gets aired on Geo New Channel, was travelling for work after landing on the airport. This is when his car came under the attack, as reported by a senior police official, Peer Muhammad Shah.

While talking about the incident, Peer Muhammad Shah said, “Four gunmen riding on motorbikes started firing at the car near Karsaz (east of the city) when Mir´s car was passing through, he received three bullets in the lower parts of his body.”

The police chief, Shahid Hayat, also spoke about the incident and revealed, “Hamid Mir has received three bullets but the doctors told me that he is out of danger.”

Geo’s Islamabad bureau’s chief, Rana Jawad, stated that he personally spoke with Hamid Mir regarding the incident. While addressing the media, Jawad said,

“I spoke to him briefly when he was escaping, he said they have shot him and now they were following him. He has been shot thrice, in the pelvic (area), abdomen and thighs.”

His brother came out in the open and said,

“He had told me that if anything happens to him, the ISI chief General Zaheer-ul-Islam would be responsible for it.”

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