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Journalist Hamid Mir Says PPP Envoy Husain Haqqani Planted Fake Audio-
Clip To Defame Him

By Journalist SYED ADEEB
http://www.AdeebMedia.com

(InformPress.com OPINION-COMMENTARY) – Hamid Mir – Pakistani
journalist, Executive Editor of Pakistan’s Geo News TV, Anchor of
Geo’s Capital Talk television program and Columnist of daily Jang/The
News International based in Islamabad, Pakistan – has pointed out to
the Guardian, a daily rag of London, UK, that Husain Haqqani, an envoy
of PPP’s infamous convicted criminal Asif Ali Zardari in Washington
DC, USA, cunningly planted a fake and fictitious audio-clip in May
2010 in the LUBP defamation (libel and slander) website/blog of PPP to
frame, blame and defame Hamid Mir.

The PPP LUBP blog, titled “Critical PPP – A Project of Critical
Supporters of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) – Let US Build Pakistan
(LUBP)”, is actually a ‘Let U.S. Destroy Pakistan’ website of PPP
liars, misleading disinformationists and malicious propagandists. The
PPP LUBP blog is Anti-journalists, Anti-Geo/Jang/The News Media Group
and Anti-The Nation/Nawa-i-Waqt/Waqt TV Media Group of Pakistan. The
PPP defamationist have illegally and maliciously defamed Pakistan’s
independent journalists Hamid Mir, Syed Zaid Zaman Hamid, Ahmed
Quraishi, Shireen M. Mazari, Dr. Shahid Masood, Ansar Abbasi, Shaheen
Sehbai, Kamran Khan and Muhammad Saleh Zaafir; Pakistan Supreme Court
Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry; and many other innocent
persons with their libelous lies, deceptive disinformation and
poisonous propaganda.

In the PPP LUBP blog, the PPP media-press freedom abusers or free
speech abusers have also written/published countless defamatory,
derogatory, insulting, curse/swear/hateful, or dirty words against
respected journalists, human rights advocates and intellectuals/
scholars, which they probably learned from their uncivilized families
or obtained from this list or dictionary of Swear or Bad Words:
– Click this Web link: http://www.noswearing.com

All PPP/Pro-PPP defamers or critics of truthful journalists are
psychopathic sycophants of the ruling PPP’s corrupt tyranny of 10 evil
Satanists deceptively disguised as politicians of the PPP – Asif Ali
Zardari, Yousuf Raza Gilani, Salmaan Taseer, Abdul Rehman Malik, Ahmed
Mukhtar, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Zaheeruddin Babar Awan, Qamar Zaman
Kaira, Fauzia Wahab, Raja Pervaiz Ashraf – and many other US CIA
actors, mercenaries, or slaves – who are daily struggling to
disintegrate, divide and break-up Pakistan through the US unlawful/
fraudulent War of Terror; bomb blasts; US illegal drone-missile
attacks on innocent Pakistani civilians; barbaric military operations
against thousands of innocent Pakistanis/Afghans; defamation,
demonization, or psychological information warfare; anarchy or
lawlessness; and civil wars among many factions, sects and cults of
warring Pakistanis, which are gradually destroying Pakistan.

All patriotic/nationalist Pakistanis should realize that the real
purpose of the US, UK, NATO-ISAF, Israeli and Indian illegal/
fraudulent War of Terror against all Pakistanis, Afghans and Muslims
is to break-up Pakistan into seven new countries – Punjab, Sindh,
Khyber, FATA, Balochistan, Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir – and
steal or eliminate all nuclear weapons of Pakistan through the ruling
PPP, MQM and ANP greedy traitors.

After receiving billions of dollars from American, British and Western
warlords – which were fraudulently stolen from Western taxpayers by
Western politicians to support/finance the Pakistani traitorous
tyrants – the PPP, MQM and ANP rulers have divided the Pakistani
Nation of over 180 million Pakistanis into many warring factions,
sects and cults. Therefore, now the PPP, MQM and ANP corrupt traitors
- who act like actors, mercenaries, or slaves of Western imperialists
- are daily trying to disintegrate, break-up and destroy Pakistan for
money.

Indeed, all corrupt, tyrannical and ruthless tyrants, generals and
politicians of Pakistan – who have unlawfully murdered, injured,
tortured, displaced and harmed millions of innocent Pakistani and
Afghan civilians/citizens of Pakistan and Afghanistan – must be locked
up in jails for their barbarous crimes (including crimes against
journalists), corruption and frauds by Pakistani judges/justices or
the United Nations international courts of law.

All current and former criminal rulers (politicians, generals,
bureaucrats, diplomats and parliamentarians) of Pakistan can be
arrested, prosecuted and punished for all their notorious crimes if
millions of oppressed, persecuted and enslaved citizens – especially
all real journalists, lawyers and other Pakistani professionals
(including Hamid Mir, Syed Zaid Zaman Hamid, Ahmed Quraishi, Shireen
Mazari, Dr. Shahid Masood, Ansar Abbasi, Shaheen Sehbai, Kamran Khan,
Muhammad Saleh Zaafir and Pakistan Justice Movement Chairman Imran
Khan) – vigorously refuse to tolerate the daily destruction of
Pakistan by the PPP, MQM and ANP careless leaders. Some MQM and ANP
activists have claimed in the past that MQM and ANP do not make the
decisions, take the actions and implement the policies/orders of PPP’s
megalomaniacal dictators. If their ridiculous claims are really true,
then the MQM and the ANP must immediately end their support for or
political alliances with the ruling PPP, so that the PPP’s corrupt
dictatorship could fall down today and Pakistan could be saved from
further or total destruction.

Dear people of Pakistan, speak out and act now like the people of
Kyrgyzstan in a revolutionary way every day. Read the thought-
provoking, educational and reformative poetry of Pakistan’s
revolutionary or progressive poets – Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Ahmed Faraz,
Habib Jalib, Sahir Ludhianvi and Allama Muhammad Iqbal – to learn or
understand why you should topple the illegal corrupt tyranny of the
PPP. Do you want to die like Afghans, Iraqis, Lebanese, Palestinians
and Kashmiris in an enslaved Pakistan occupied by the US, UK, NATO-
ISAF, Israeli and Indian armed forces, intelligence agencies,
mercenary war business contractors, war criminals and war profiteers?
How long will you survive without electricity, clean drinking water,
cooking gas, free healthcare insurance, free education, jobs, money,
human rights, civil liberties, rule of just/fair laws, equal justice
and other basic needs of life? If you fail to struggle today to remove
all PPP corrupt tyrants from power, then tomorrow the PPP incompetent
rulers will totally turn Pakistan into another Afghanistan, Iraq, or
Palestine. Instead of living like slaves, break all your chains of
slavery now to gain freedom, to end poverty and to first change and
then reform all the federal, provincial and local governments in
Pakistan, the homeland of all Pakistanis.

The following are some excerpts from the Guardian news story of 17 May
2010, written by British bearded propagandist Declan Walsh from
Lahore, Pakistan:

“In the [fake audio] tape ["Hamid"] “Mir” [or a Mir's voice
impersonator] describes [Pakistan Air Force (PAF) and Pakistan Army's
Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) ex-official Khalid] Khawaja as a
[US] CIA collaborator, questions his Islamic credentials, and accuses
him of playing a treacherous role in the 2007 Red Mosque siege in
which more than 100 [or 1,000 innocent Pakistani] people, including
the chief cleric [Abdul Rasheed Ghazi], were [illegally] killed [by
the PMLQ-MQM merciless tyranny of five infamous criminals, corrupt
outlaws and evil Satanists: General (R) Pervez Musharraf, Shaukat
Aziz, Pervaiz Elahi, Shujaat Hussain and Altaf Hussain].”

“Last month [April 2010] Khawaja’s bullet-pocked body was found on a
roadside in Waziristan [Pakistan] with a warning note to other
‘American spies’.”

“As debate about the [fabricated audio] tape swirled in media circles,
[Hamid] Mir issued a strenuous denial saying the tape had been
fabricated by his enemies in [the PPP] government to destroy his
reputation and silence him.”

“I never said these things to these people. This is a concocted tape,”
he told the Guardian. “They took my voice, sampled it and manufactured
this conspiracy against me.”

“The [so-called] ‘Taliban’ [Pakistani or Afghan Pashtun students]
added to the controversy by issuing a [press-media] statement that
denied the [audio] tape was real.”

“[Hamid] Mir has vowed to take his critics to court, but for now the
controversy is playing out on the pages of the Pakistani press. Mir
said the [fake audiotape] recording had been doctored by the [Pakistan
PPP-Controlled, corrupt and tyrannical Intelligence Bureau (IB) or by
the] Federal Investigation Agency [FIA], a security agency” [operating
under the command of PPP convicted criminal Abdul Rehman Malik, who is
anti-Mir, because Hamid Mir, his colleague journalists (including Dr.
Shahid Masood, Ansar Abbasi, Shaheen Sehbai, Kamran Khan, Muhammad
Saleh Zaafir and many other journalists, writers and TV anchors) have
persistently opposed, condemned and exposed the crimes, corruption and
frauds of A. Rehman Malik and all other notorious PPP rulers/ministers
(including the PPP president, Asif Ali Zardari, and the PPP PM, Yousuf
Raza Gilani)].

“But he said the slurs had been politically orchestrated by the Punjab
[PPP] governor, Salmaan Taseer, and Pakistan’s [PPP] ambassador to the
US, Husain Haqqani, who, he said, had released the [fake audio] tape
on a [PPP LUBP] blog.”

“This [PPP LUBP] blog has a personal grudge against me and it is being
operated from Washington by our [PPP] ambassador, Husain Haqqani,” he
said.

Haqqani said: “We do not dignify conspiracy theories with comment.” He
denied any role in the [fabricated audio] tape recording – ['which
might have been produced by PPP poisonous propagandist Salmaan Taseer
and pro-PPP misleading disinformationist Rashed Rahman of the pro-PPP
Daily Times rag in their pro-PPP Business Plus TV studio in Pakistan',
according to hearsay - but Husain Haqqani has refused to disclose that
who actually created/recorded or planted the fictitious audiotape in
the PPP LUBP blog].

“For too long we have protected our own,” said [pro-PPP Daily Times,
pro-PPP reckless Editor Rashed] Rahman. “Now we have to speak
out.” [Hamid] Mir said he was instituting legal proceedings against
the [pro-PPP toilet paper] Daily Times.

Khalid Khawaja’s wife declined to comment. “I don’t want to say
anything,” she said. “This is a very, very dirty conspiracy and I
don’t want to indulge in it.”

Geo News TV Capital Talk Facebook states: “On 5th November, 2009, we
have shown the [PPP] blog ‘Let US Build Pakistan’. The [PPP LUBP] blog
named few Pakistan’s journalists including Hamid Mir as ISI agents.” -
17 May 2010.

The Capital Talk Facebook also states: “We are taking legal action
against [pro-PPP] Daily Times (owned by Salmaan Taseer) and some US-
based blogs supervised by Mr. Husain Haqqani for hatching a conspiracy
against Hamid Mir by using a fabricated [audio] tape.” – 17 May 2010.
- http://www.facebook.com/CapitalTalk

[Mr. Syed Adeeb is America's international journalist, Chief Editor of
the Information Press - InformPress.com - AdeebMedia.com -
AdeebPress.com - SyedAdeeb.net and Director of the Human Rights
Justice Forum - HRJF.net - based in Virginia, U.S.A. http://www.facebook.com/adeebmedia
- Friday, 21 May 2010]

- http://www.regionaltimes.com/20may2010/backpagenews/hanif.htm
- http://www.un.org/News/dh/infocus/Pakistan/UN_Bhutto_Report_15April2010.pdf

Sarah Khan :
Why did he miss us out? Why was not any notice served to us?
Mir’s lawyers send defamation notices to Governor Punjab, others
ISLAMABAD, (SANA): A legal notice of defamation has been sent to the Governor Punjab Salman Taseer for allegedly damaging the status of the renowned journalist and anchor person Hamid Mir while a demand of paying a fine of Rs. 2.5 crore has also been made.
According to a statement issued by Hamid Mir on Tuesday, his lawyers have issued a legal notice to Salman Taseer, Governor Punjab, Rashid Rehman, editor of an English daily, a staff reporter and Mian Ehsan-ul-Haq, the chief executive of a private television channel for the defamation of the former.
In the notices, a stance is adopted that the English daily and the private television channel of Salman Taseer, without any tangible evidence, published and telecast such a material against Hamid Mir which is entirely baseless and fabricated.
It is revealed in the notice that the material regarding the murder of the former Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) official Khalid Khawaja and his alleged relationship with terrorism published and telecast on May 17 at the English daily and television channel was not verified due to which the journalistic reputation of Hamid Mir was damaged.
It is also said in the notice that the parties should tender apology within 14 days and publish and telecast a rebuttal in this regard.
The notice warned Salman Taseer and others are warned in the notice that if they did not rebut the published and telecast material, legal proceedings would be carried out against them.
http://www.sananews.net/english/2010/05/19/mir%E2%80%99s-lawyers-send-defamation-notices-to-governor-punjab-others/

i can understand your disappointed. lol

Mir’s lawyers send defamation notices to Governor Punjab, others
ISLAMABAD, (SANA): A legal notice of defamation has been sent to the Governor Punjab Salman Taseer for allegedly damaging the status of the renowned journalist and anchor person Hamid Mir while a demand of paying a fine of Rs. 2.5 crore has also been made.

According to a statement issued by Hamid Mir on Tuesday, his lawyers have issued a legal notice to Salman Taseer, Governor Punjab, Rashid Rehman, editor of an English daily, a staff reporter and Mian Ehsan-ul-Haq, the chief executive of a private television channel for the defamation of the former.

In the notices, a stance is adopted that the English daily and the private television channel of Salman Taseer, without any tangible evidence, published and telecast such a material against Hamid Mir which is entirely baseless and fabricated.

It is revealed in the notice that the material regarding the murder of the former Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) official Khalid Khawaja and his alleged relationship with terrorism published and telecast on May 17 at the English daily and television channel was not verified due to which the journalistic reputation of Hamid Mir was damaged.

It is also said in the notice that the parties should tender apology within 14 days and publish and telecast a rebuttal in this regard.

The notice warned Salman Taseer and others are warned in the notice that if they did not rebut the published and telecast material, legal proceedings would be carried out against them.

http://www.sananews.net/english/2010/05/19/mir%E2%80%99s-lawyers-send-defamation-notices-to-governor-punjab-others/

…. some points from Hamid Mir’s article need a comment.

1. It is interesting that Hamid Mir has laid this “conspiracy” at the door of the Pakistan Peoples Party, rather than where it seems to originate: the intelligence agencies. A few people have also pointed out the intelligence source as a reason to discount it. No doubt, one must take intel leaks with a pinch of salt. But whether PPP or the intelligence agencies are the source, the allegations need to be refuted, and if they are not in substantive terms, they would have to be accepted as fact. Indeed, the reasons for the intelligence operatives having turned against Mir – who has long been considered one of their men – may be complex but that does not affect the substance of the allegations against him as evidenced by this recording.

2. His claims that “these types of concocted tapes cannot be proven in a court of law” seem a bit premature and certainly not a little reminiscent of an earlier apoplectic commentator on this blog who said:

“…this stupid piece of evidence will not stand in any court of law anywhere in the world.”
Let’s leave that to the courts to decide, if it comes to that, but it does indicate a bit of panic. The ISI fanboy’s claims, also on this blog, that “they” are in touch with Mrs. Khalid Khwaja is, however, probably the reason for the panic. I would expect her to soon move the court with a petition to implicate Mir in her husband’s murder. For Mr Mir’s benefit, however, it is fairly easy for experts to judge whether a recording is tampered with or not.

3. Hamid Mir is at pains to point out the “timing” of the accusation against him coinciding with the government’s bringing up the tax issue against the Jang Group (among other media groups) and Fauzia Wahab’s (albeit flimsy) legal notice of defamation to Ansar Abbasi. He (and his fellow journos) should know about media timing. And he may well be right to a certain extent. However, as pointed out before, this does not mean that the tax issues and the seriousness of the accusations against him are negated. He (and the Jang Group) still have to answer. By using the bogey of a ‘conspiracy against the media’, how are they different from Asif Zardari who claims the allegations of corruption against him are simply a ‘conspiracy against democracy’? Sometimes the shoe is on the other foot, is it not Mr Mir? And of course, both are not necessarily mutually exclusive points of view: you can have a conspiracy to undermine democracy at the same time as the allegations of corruption being true. Similarly, you can have a government campaign to make the media more compliant at the same time as serious allegations against the media being true.

4. Hamid Mir claims that part of the reason for the government’s ire is his bringing up the issue of the fake degrees of Jamshed Dasti et al. We’ve done a number of stories harshly criticising Dasti et al and the government, but I can tell you one thing: in terms of seriousness, fake degrees are piddling compared to instigation to murder.

http://cafepyala.blogspot.com/2010/05/smoking-gun_15.html

Shahid said:

Interestingly enough, even our office peon recognized the voice on the tape of being Hamid Mir. Anyone who has heard the recording states that the voice on it belongs to hamid Mir. Now we all have heard of photgraphs being doctored, but voices being doctored perfectly!!!maybe should be considered as a rare big feat of the agencies/ST blamed for making the tape.

Wonder why the so-called agencies had to go through such a big effort to frame Hamid, for if they really are as diabolic as claimed here, then they could just simply bumped him off or charged him with so many other cases. Today’s The News edition should be saved by all concerned, for it is truly unique, for TTP has supposedly has spoken on behalf of ASIAN TIGERS and made many a claims. Seems like someone has lost the plot… Hamid Mir himself has posted that,

Adnan Gill said:

Mir Sahib,

With due respect, it is immaterial and irrelevant to me what (supposed) Taliban say or claim. My interest is in your no uncertain acknowledgment or denial, that you never had any such conversation.

It is up to you whether you want to put the accusation to rest or not by acknowledging or denying it. Thanks.

Shahid said:
May 17, 3:36 pm
Please let me know by which technology can Hamid Mir or any one else voice can be faked. Voice recognition software is used in latest jet air crafts, as that is one thing one cannot fake. You can doctor a picture and or movie, but not someones voice. Their are voice change soft wares available, where you can change a voice into male or female or many other modes, but cannot copy someones voice and or fake it. It will be a unique new product or proverbial feather in the cap if someone in Pakistan can do so.

Let their be no doubt, the voice on the tape does belong to Hamid Mir.

From: hamid mir
To: presspakistan
May 16, 2010 11:48 PM
Subject: Re: A new web war against Hamid Mir-warning for journalist community

I have already said that this tape was fabricated.Now Taliban have also denied the tap.What is the use of our agencies.These Taliban call people,they send emails and our secret agencies cannot do anything except to launch dirty propoganda against innocent people.Here is the statement with the email address of Taliban.
……

So it is established that Hamid Mir is/was not being coerced. It is very clear that the voice in the tape is his; no second thoughts about that nor he disclaimed it.

That means he is thoroughly screwed. There were reports that he shifted his family to UK recently.