Islamabad: It was a shameful conduct of Capital Talk Show by Geo Television on the night of April 19 over the issue of attack on its top anchor Hamid Mir when journalists sitting in this Talk Show were trying to bail out those who are blamed by Hamid Mir family for attacking him. Geo anchor of Khabarnak Aftab Iqbal was saying that allegation of family of Hamid Mir about involvement of ISI Chief in attack on Hamid was actually an act of panic and reaction of his family and there are possibilities that allegations were unfounded and baseless. While anchor of the show Saleem Safi was discussing that Pakistani media was crossing its limits and was becoming spokesman of different powers. He was trying to say that Hamid Mir was crossing his limits and that is the reason he was attacked and he was also trying to bail ISI out from allegations leveled by younger brother of Hamid Mir that his brother was attacked on the orders of the Chief of the ISI.
It was good to hear that Geo anchor person Iftikhar Ahmed who had a different stance than the Aftab Iqbal and Saleem Safi and categorically said that Hamid Mir informed about his fears to everybody including him and Saleem Safi that his life was in danger and named those people who are blamed by his family today after this attack. Bureau Chief of Geo Islamabad Rana Jawad also supported the stance of family of Hamid Mir and said allegations were not outcome of panic of his family but these fears were expressed by Hamid Mr himself before this attack.
Television anchor Asma Sherazi of Dawn had a bold stance and was of the view that media houses should forget their differences and should join hands to fight against terrorism journalists are facing.
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