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Six Bullets and Seven Nights
Hamid Mir, in his column Qalam Kaman under the caption “Six Bullets
and Seven Nights” has recounted in some detail in today’s daily “The News” the
sequence of events of April 19th that led to the firing on his car
at Karachi in which he received six bullets. He says that he started reciting
Kalam e Tayyaba after the third bullet and asked the driver to hurry to the
hospital. However, the great dramatist and innovator Dr. Aamir Liaqat
Hussain had quite an inspiring story of unrivaled and unparalleled bravery of
Hamid Mir to narrate in one of his morning shows. The great doctor had disclosed
that Hamid Mir being a true Momin and patriot, to the utter amazement
of his driver, after reciting the Kalama e Tayyaba a couple of times raised the
cry of Allah o Akbar thrice and thereafter kept raising the slogan of Pakistan
Zindabad repeatedly till he reached the hospital. Hamid Mir, somehow failed to
mention the shouts! of Allah o Akbar and Pakistan Zindabad by him and he should
not be blamed for it as any human being under such traumatic conditions is
likely to suffer such lapses of memory unwittingly howsoever patriotic and Momin
he might be.
Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
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