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Hamid Mir Shooting
There are no two opinions about the attempt on the life of Hamid Mir
under the fly over bridge near Karachi airport on Saturday 19th
April being one of the most heinous crimes and must by condemned by all to the
utmost. However, the haste with which the ISI and its Chief have been
blamed by the family and the media in general for it is a little surprising.
AND, if it was done by them then I demand that the supposedly most
prestigious intelligence agency of the country ISI be disbanded immediately and
its Chief given the marching orders for planning and executing the ‘mission’ so
unprofessionally and amateurishly. Why did they have to wait for him to
go to Karachi and try to kill him there while he was in his car and the killers
had only a limited time to take on a moving target? Why couldn’t they do
it at Islamabad at leisure with all the facilities and time at their disposal
to pick up the place and timings of thei! r own choosing and most suitable to
guarantee one hundred per cent accomplishment of the mission? Just stupid
of the ISI to do such an important task in such an amateurish way !!
By the way, is the ISI, the agencies – as they call it, and the armed forces
the only establishments antagonized by the gentleman with his utterings and
writings? How about the others – the Police, the administration, the political
parties, some of the autonomous and semi-autonomous bodies, corporate
authorities, a few NGOs, banks and bankers, industrialists and the
business corporations – to name a few who have not escaped the scathe of his
pen and tongue . Could it not be planned by anyone of them and if not why
not? Lastly, what is that game called black mailing, at which some of our
journalists are so deft? I hope not, but could some business tycoon of
Karachi fed up to the nose with the ever increasing demands have hired some
mercenaries to put an end to such black mailing?! Isn’t there a one in a
million chance for such a possibility?!
Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
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