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TopicHamid Mir

Topic: Hamid Mir

Journalist Asad Ali Toor’s remand extended in Pakistan, journalists’ protest continues

Toor was reportedly arrested for sharing a viral video in which he could be seen exposing how the election results were changed in the night between February 8 and 9.

Pakistani media has an Imran Khan problem. You can’t even name him

Journalist Hamid Mir says a ‘de facto’ ban is in place in Pakistani media on any mention of ex-PM Imran Khan. It challenges the ‘very idea of a democratic Pakistan’.

Malala Yousafzai on British Vogue cover & Pakistan’s first-ever military reality show

Our prolific feature about Pakistan’s fascinating politics, economy, society, culture, cricket, fashion and more — stories beyond the routine headlines.

Banned from Geo, six bullets, one car bomb, but I still won’t leave Pakistan — Hamid Mir

May be I spoke too much outside Islamabad’s Press Club. But I have suffered too much, my colleagues like Asad Ali Toor are facing too much — attacks and pressure.

Pak tribal leader says militants bombing schools are ‘fed’ by the State

Here's what's happening across the border: A false tsunami alert rocks Karachi; UK extends help to Pakistan to move out of FATF's grey list. 

Hamid Mir, who accused ISI of trying to kill him, quits Geo TV

Pakistan’s budding ‘chaiwala’ turned politician, and Atif Aslam’s troubles over New York concert. 

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.