Karachi: A local court in Quetta, capital city of Pakistan’s southwestern province Balochistan, has issued a non-bailable arrest warrant for Hamid Mir, renowned anchor person and columnist who had conducted two interviews of late al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
Media reports said the court issued Mir’s arrest warrant in a case filed by a senior lawyer of Balochistan, Khalid Khan. The petitioner has taken the plea that in his column of October 24, 2011, Mir had deliberately used contemptuous words against Pashtoon nationality that hurt the feeling of Pashtoon people. Besides the columnist, he had also made the editor-in-chief of the newspaper a party in the case.
It is to mention here that the in Oct 24 column Mr Mir had severally criticised Afghan President Hamid Karzai days after another senior anchor Saleem Safi conducted his interview.
Mr Mir in his column had quoted a proverb of an Afghan ethnic group regarding Pashtoons. It is pertinent to mention here that Salim Safi in his column had also reacted angrily over Mir’s column.
Hamid Mir tweeted after the issuance of warrants:
@Shakeelbarki I love all Pashtuns,Balochs,Sindhis,Punjabis,Muhajirs,Siraikis,Kashmiris,Hazaras and all non Muslim Pakistanis without Bais
@DrFouziaSadiq I appeared in courts many times previously i was cleared by courts in 2009 when ISI tried to involve me in a fake murder case
@omar_quraishi @jrshami @UmarCheema1 I never recieved any court notice in this regard and read arrest warrant news in media as a surprise
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