Getting threats to leave Pakistan, says Hamid Mir
28 April 2014 5:56 AM IST
Mir, who is currently being treated after being shot six times in Karachi, said his attackers were ‘those who track the movement of Pakistani journalists, tap their phones’.
The 47-year-old Mir said he has been told to leave Karachi and Pakistan as ‘it will be a long fight’. ‘People visit me in guise of friends but leave after conveying threatening messages of the foes,’ said the senior journalist in his first interview yesterday after the attack.
A high voltage controversy erupted in the wake of the gun attack on Mir with his brother accusing ‘certain elements’ in the ISI and its chief of orchestrating the attack.
Mir said it was the ‘ISI within the ISI’ with ties to jihadi groups which was behind the April 19 gun attack. ‘I am pointing towards the ‘ISI within the ISI’. I have informed my organisation in writing on numerous occasions,’ he told BBC Urdu. ‘The most worrying thing is that outfits that have been banned by the government have been staging rallies in the support of ISI,’ he stressed.
The anchor added that he had had a history of receiving threats from all quarters, and that even after being attacked he was being passed on messages through interlocutors which ‘advised’ him to leave the country.
The 47-year-old Mir said he has been told to leave Karachi and Pakistan as ‘it will be a long fight’. ‘People visit me in guise of friends but leave after conveying threatening messages of the foes,’ said the senior journalist in his first interview yesterday after the attack.
A high voltage controversy erupted in the wake of the gun attack on Mir with his brother accusing ‘certain elements’ in the ISI and its chief of orchestrating the attack.
Mir said it was the ‘ISI within the ISI’ with ties to jihadi groups which was behind the April 19 gun attack. ‘I am pointing towards the ‘ISI within the ISI’. I have informed my organisation in writing on numerous occasions,’ he told BBC Urdu. ‘The most worrying thing is that outfits that have been banned by the government have been staging rallies in the support of ISI,’ he stressed.
The anchor added that he had had a history of receiving threats from all quarters, and that even after being attacked he was being passed on messages through interlocutors which ‘advised’ him to leave the country.
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