Posts Tagged ‘Khalid Khwaja’

حامد میر اور ہائی مارل گراؤنڈ حامد میر کے پنجابی طالبان سے رابطے ریکارڈ پر آ چکے ہیں - حامد میر پنجابی طالبان کے ایک رہنما کو بتاتا ہے کہ خالد خواجہ سی آئی اے کا ایجینٹ ہے اور امریکہ کے لیئے کام [...]

Many in the Pakistani media used the 2007-2009 lawyers’ movement in Pakistan as an ablution ritual to distance themselves from their fundamentalist past and created a centrist illusion around themselves “Newspapermen commit murder every day and week and go unpunished. Not that they escape judgment when they murder the King’s English; for [...]

May 26, 2010 Mr. Hamid Mir Geo TV and Jang Group of Pakistan Dear Sir: I am writing to you today regarding the allegations that you are somehow involved with the Taliban and the assassination of Mr. Khalid Khawaja. As you know, the Daily Times published the first transcript and the Let Us Build Pakistan (LUBP) website broke the story [...]

Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir, who has been linked by several Pakistani websites to the killing of a former intelligence official by the Taliban, refutes the accusations in this e-mail sent to The Washington Times in response to an article that appeared in Tuesday's editions: Dear Sir, The Washington Times has published a story today [...]

Is Hamid Mir about to be arrested for his alleged role in Khalid Khwaja's murder through his friends in Punjabi Taliban? Is Mir Shakil-ur-Rehman too about to be arrested in his capacity as Hamid Mir's employer. Jang Group / Geo TV is notorious for its links with the Taliban, and has in its lust for more sensational stories always traded [...]

GIVEN Khalid Khwaja’s fate, whoever’s voice it is on that leaked tape can at the very least be potentially found guilty of incitement to violence, and at the worst be accused of being an accessory to murder. The ideologies of Khwaja’s captors are well-known after all: the militants are against the West and religious minorities, for [...]

Hamid Mir has been doing his best to divert attention of the public and journalists against his audio tapes that have been circulating on the Internet. In his column in 24th May’s Jang, titled “Dushman ka khel”, he has given the analogy of a “crank” call to President Zardari in the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks where Indian External [...]

Anchor Cast Adrift What’s behind the tapes of TV host Hamid Mir’s chat with a Taliban man? MARIANA BAABAR Source: Outlook India ‘Khawaja Is A CIA Agent, An American CIA Agent’ Excerpt from the transcript of the tapped telecon between Hamid Mir and an unidentified man (UM). India, Kashmir, A.B. Vajpayee figure in this [...]

There is the mystery that many of the internet sites about Khalid Khawaja are now ‘restricted’! What does that mean? It is in the national interest of Pakistanis that they know who is a friend and who is a foe Khalid Khawaja is no more, but he has left a lot behind. Was he an ISI, CIA or FBI operative? Was he supportive of Talibanisation or [...]

Pakistan journalist linked to ex-ISI officer's killing denies report IANS, May 18, 2010, 10.52pm IST ISLAMABAD: One of Pakistan's best known journalists, Hamid Mir, has denied telling the Taliban that a former intelligence officer who was abducted was a CIA agent. The officer was later murdered. A media celebrity who rubs shoulders with [...]

On behalf of the LUBP, Ahsan Abbas Shah's rebuttal to Hamid Mir and his spokesman Earthman, International Professor (both of them work for the Pakistani Taliban Union of Journalists): (more...)

Hamid Mir, a prominent TV anchor, has seen fit to respond to a story carried by Daily Times (May 16, 2010, “Hamid Mir’s terrifying indiscretions”, plus a transcript of a purported telephone conversation between Mir and an unknown militant of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan) with a vicious campaign against the publisher of the paper, Punjab [...]

Pakistani news presenter accused of link to Taliban hostage's murder Leaked audio tape purportedly reveals phone conversation between Hamid Mir and a Taliban spokesman about hostage Declan Walsh in Lahore guardian.co.uk, Monday 17 May 2010 19.50 BST Pakistan's pugnacious media world was plunged into controversy today when a leaked [...]

Source: Diary of a Politically Incorrect Vagabond http://criticalppp.com/archives/10918 The man in the tape is Hamid Mir beyond doubt. The voice and style of conversation is his. I have had conversations with him on several occasions and he breaks stories in this very style. The conversation should not surprise people as Hamid Mir has old [...]

صیاد کا دام خود اپنے دام میں صیاد آرہا ہے۔ بس یہ تھا فوری خیال جو میرے ذہن میں آیا۔ جب میں نے یہ ٹیپ کہ ہوئ فون کال سنی جو حامد میر اور طالبان کے کسی اعلی عہدیدار کے درمیان ہوئ۔ اس فون کال کا وقت [...]

Note: It is pertinent to mention that the audio conversation presented in this post appears to be an intentional leak by the Punjabi Taliban or the ISI (first posted on the ISI fan page on facebook). While the exact intentions of this leak are not known, readers / listeners are 'advised to exercise caution' in drawing any conclusions. To that end, [...]

On April 19, a Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) rally in Peshawar was attacked by a suicide bomber. The gruesome attack was allegedly engineered and undertaken by members of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The irony is that the JI are one of the few mainstream political parties in the country that actually sympathise with the TTP, claiming that the [...]

The sordid murder of Khalid Khawaja, the former ISI official, squadron leader and a man thought at various times to have negotiated between the US, the Pak Army and militants, exposes the many inter-linkages relating to terrorism. There is, we all know, a long history behind these. The slimy trail it has left winding through our country binds [...]

Former daily Aajkal columnist and briliant young journalist Nimer Ahmed has written this piece exclusively for the LUBP. We hope Nimer will keep contributing and sharing his valuable thoughts with us. (Ali Arqam Durrani) خالد خواجہ؟ نمراحمد حال ہی میں خالد خواجہ ایک بار پھر اچانک شہ سرخیوں [...]

The kidnapped Rahimullah Yusufzai There is no doubt that North Waziristan is dangerous territory. It is a major sanctuary of local and foreign militants espousing diverse causes. No other place in the world has been subjected to so many missile strikes by drones in such a short period of time. Its reputation as a lawless place was reinforced [...]

ISLAMABAD: A former official of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional presidential immunity against legal proceedings as un-Islamic and unconstitutional. Khalid Khawaja, also a former air force official, filed the petition after a Supreme Court verdict that nullified an [...]