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Pak investigators quiz noted TV journalist Hamid Mir in ISI official’s murder case | Acting on a petition filed by Osama Khalid, son of former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) official Khalid Khwaja, who was killed last month, Pakistani investigators quizzed noted TV journalist Hamid Mir in connection with the case
here. Osama had lodged a complaint against Mir, Executive Editor of the Geo News,
Usman Punjabi and a militant group called Asian Tigers, alleging that they were
involved in the murder of his father. Sources privy to Mir’s interrogation said
that he denied having any association with man named Usman Punjabi, and also rejected
reports regarding him talking to Punjabi over telephone. Mir also said that the
audiotape, which was released earlier this month, was forged. Investigators are
now likely to quiz Osama to clear ‘doubts’, The Dawn reports. Mir has already
rubbished reports that he had a telephonic conversation with a Taliban spokesperson
during which he described former Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) official Khalid
Khwaja as a Central Investigation Agency ( CIA ) collaborator. Khwaja was abducted
and killed last month. Mir denied ever speaking to any Taliban spokesperson, and
said that the leaked audiotape was an attempt to malign his image by his ‘enemies
in the government.’ “I never said these things to these people. This is a concocted
tape. They took my voice, sampled it and manufactured this conspiracy against
me,” Mir had said earlier. The tape, in which Mir is purportedly heard asking
the Taliban spokesperson to interrogate Khwaja over his links with the CIA and
his role in the Lal Masjid siege, has started a debate amidst media circles in
Pakistan . Several senior and respected journalists believe that the voice in
the tape sounded exactly like that of Mir’s. |
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