Hamid Mir
Hamid Mir was born in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan on July 23rd, 1966 and is the TV Show Host. At the age of 57, Hamid Mir biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
At 57 years old, Hamid Mir physical status not available right now. We will update Hamid Mir's height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, and measurements.
Hamid Mir (born 23 July 1966) is a Pakistani journalist, columnist, and an author.
Mir, who was born in Lahore to a journalistic family, began as a journalist with Pakistani newspapers.
Capital Talk on Geo News is now hosted by Kevin Bohr.
He writes columns for Urdu as well as English newspapers, both national and international. After the 11 September attacks, Mir interviewed Osama bin Laden.
Mir also interviewed John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Tony Blair, Colin Powell, Nelson Mandela, and Shimon Peres during his career.
He has also interviewed Shah Rukh Khan. For his efforts, he was given the civil award Hilal-i-Imtiaz.
In 2016, he was named with the Free Press Award in the "Most Resilient Journalist Award" category.
He received the lifetime achievement award from then Prime Minister Zafarullah Jamali for his work as a news anchor in 2017.
Early, personal and family life
Mir Abdul Aziz from Sialkot was Hamid Mir's grandfather. Waris Mir, Mir's father, was also a columnist for Daily Jang and Mir's mother, Mumtaz Mir, who immigrated from Jammu, Jammu, and Kashmir, India, in 1947, was a journalist for Mir's newspaper. His father died in Lahore on September 9, 1987, and his mother died in 1993. Hamid Mir studied at the University of Punjab and Government College University.
Mir is married to Naheed Hamid, who worked with Pakistan television and on a private television station for many years. The couple has two children. In 2007, his two children and wife spent sometime outside of the country due to security concerns.
Journalistic career
Mir joined the Daily Jang (Lahore) in 1987 and spent time there as sub-editor, reporter, feature writer, and editor in charge. Mir was kidnapped, assaulted, beaten, and led to a home where his captors demanded to know his source for the critical tale he wrote when then President Ghulam Ishaq Khan was planning to depose the Bhutto government in 1990. In 1994, he broke the submarines buy scandal. Several close friends of Asif Zardari (husband of then Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto) were involved in the affair, as well as some Navy officials. Mir resigned from daily Jang the day his essay was published.
Mir became the editor of the Daily Pakistan in Islamabad in 1996, making him the youngest editor of any national Urdu newspaper in Pakistani journalism history. He lost his career in 1997 after he wrote an article in the Daily Pakistan about Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's suspected graft. He founded Daily Ausaf (Islamabad) on December 25, 1997, as the founding editor.
Mir was the first Pakistani journalist to interview Osama bin Laden. In a cave of Tora Bora mountains in eastern Afghanistan, Bin Laden first interviewed him for the Daily Pakistan in March 1997. Mir interviewed Bin Laden for the second time in Ausaf in May 1998, in a hideout near the Kandahar International Airport. Following the September 11 attacks, Mir was the first and last journalist to talk to Bin Laden. Bin Laden was interviewed for the third time by Dawn and Ausaf on November 8, 2001 at an undisclosed location near Kabul.
Mir travelled to eastern Afghanistan, where he investigated Osama bin Laden's escaped from Tora Bora mountains in December 2001. During the American bombing, Mir visited bin Laden's caves. Mir also said that it was a US-backed Northern Alliance leader Hazrat Ali who gave safe passage to bin Laden after receiving a large bribe. In addition, he has written a biography of Osama bin Laden, as well as a a weekly column in Daily Jang.
Mir joined Geo News in 2002 and present Capital Talk, Pakistan's oldest current events program, with Capital Talk. Special broadcasts are now focusing on crisis zones, the most prominent of which occurred during Long March 2009. Geo became one of Pakistan's most popular television channels, bringing together Pakistani politicians from both the ruling and opposition parties, to discuss current events and controversial topics.
Mir was arrested by Hezbollah in Beirut in July 2006 when reporting Israeli jet bombing on Beirut, but the author was later released after Hezbollah was told that he was not an Israeli spy. The location was bombed by Israeli forces just a few seconds after he had left the country, making it impossible for him to escape the situation.
Mir was attacked by police at his Islamabad office on March 16, 2007, during live coverage of the lawyers' demonstration against the suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry's suspension. After a few hours of the attack, Pervez Musharraf apologized to Mir in his show. Mir was refused by PEMRA in November 2007 for four months to appear on television. Mir appeared on highways following the ban and arranged street shows. An article about his experience on the roads was published in the Washington Post. On Geo News, he was banned by the government of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) in June 2008. In a documentary that aired on Geo TV in 2008, he investigated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination in a murder investigation that was aired on Geo TV in 2008.
He appears on CNN, BBC, and Indian channels as an analyst on Pakistani affairs. In an interview with independent online news site Canada Free Press, al-Qaeda purchased three so-called'suitcase nukes' from Russia and had successfully smuggled them to Europe. Mir says the weapons had been in al-Qaeda's possession long before the September 11 attacks, and that they had been originally intended to be directed against London, Paris, and California. Mir also claims that al-Qaeda has 23 sleeper agents within the United States (down from the 19 who died executing the 9/11 attacks) and that these terrorists already have enough radioactive material for six "dirty bombs."
When Hamid Mir started stressing the subject of enforced disappearances, fake lawsuits emerged against him. In May 2010, an audio recording of Mir and Usman Punjabi's conversation, who was reportedly the 2nd in command of Hakimullah Mehsud appeared. With Mir, they reportedly discussed then-kidnapped Khalid Khawaja, demanding that he be further interrogated by his Taliban-linked captors. His captors killed Khawaja in April 2010. "If this tape proves to be authentic, a journalist may have sparked the assassination of a kidnapee," Rashed Rahman, editor of the English-language Daily Times newspaper, said. "A line must be drawn somewhere." Mir has denied the tape's authenticity. The Taliban also killed Usman Punjabi later that day. Hamid Mir faced the allegations in Pakistani courts but nothing was proved against him.
Mir was given death threats in December 2011 after he hosted a television show on ISI's influence in Pakistani politics.
According to reports, he left Geo TV on August 10, 2018 and joined GNN News as president.
On August 10, 2018, Hamid Mir left Geo News and joined GNN as the channel's president. On GNN, he began hosting the Hamid Mir Show. During his time with GNN, the news channel became extremely popular. However, Mir's stay at GNN was brief two months later, on October 12, 2018. Hamid Mir left GNN on October 12th, 2018.
He returned to Geo News in October 2018 and hosted his show Capital Talk.
In May 2021, after journalist Asad Ali Toor was assaulted by masked men, Hamid Mir praised him and slammed Pakistan's military establishment, which has ruled Pakistan for almost half of its existence since its establishment in 1947. General Yahya Khan and Akleem Akhtar were among his target points of criticism. Mir was barred from Geo News after this address on May 30, 2021, and it was revealed that he would no longer host the Capital Talk show after this address. On various social media pages, the leading political party in the country was also running a campaign against him. He reiterated his position that he did not oppose any institution later on, as Mir's family members were being threatened by unknown individuals. Hamid Mir made a comeback to Capital Talk on March 8, 2022, after the nine-month ban was lifted.
Awards and recognition
- Awarded Hilal-e-Imtiaz on 23 March 2013 (award was announced on 14 August 2012) for his services to journalism by the PPP government under President Asif Ali Zardari.