Profile:
Hamid Mir is a Pakistani journalist, columnist, and author who was born on July 23, 1966. Mir, who was born in Lahore to a journalistic family, began his career as a journalist for Pakistani publications. On Geo News, he presented the political chat show Capital Talk. He publishes columns for both national and international Urdu and English newspapers. He is well-known in Pakistan for his opposition to the Establishment’s rule. Hamid Mir has survived two murder attempts, been barred off television three times, and lost his job twice as a result of his advocacy for press freedom and human rights.
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Mir is the world’s sole journalist who interviewed Osama bin Laden following the September 11 attacks. Mir has also interviewed former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, US Secretary of State John Kerry, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair, US Secretary of State Colin Powell, Nelson Mandela, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Yassir Arafat, Indian leader L.K. Advani, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and Shimon Peres.
Benazir Bhutto, Pervez Musharraf, Asif Ali Zardari, Nawaz Sharif, Imran Khan, Mir Zafaruallah Khan Jamali, and President Arif Alvi are just a few of the renowned Pakistani political personalities Hamid Mir has interviewed. Mir has also conducted interviews with superstars such as Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan.
For his contributions to Pakistan, he received the civic honor Hilal-i-Imtiaz. Free Press Unlimited presented him with the “Most Resilient Journalist Award” in The Hague in 2016. Former Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali presented him with the lifetime achievement award at Government College University Lahore in 2017 for his efforts as a news anchor.
Hamid Mir is the only South Asian journalist who has covered wars and crises in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Chechnya, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Sri Lanka. In 2010, he received the SAARC Lifetime Achievement Award in New Delhi for his war and conflict reporting.
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Hamid Mir attends international seminars and conferences on security, human rights, and press freedom on a regular basis. He has given talks at Harvard University, Yale University, the University of Oxford, the London School of Economics, and the University of California, Berkeley.
Early Life:
Mir Abdul Aziz from Sialkot was Hamid Mir’s grandfather. Mir’s father, Waris Mir, was also a journalist for Daily Jang, and Mir’s mother, Mumtaz Mir, immigrated to Pakistan in 1947 from Jammu, Jammu, and Kashmir, India. His father died in Lahore on July 9, 1987, while his mother died in 1993. Hamid Mir attended Government College University as well as the University of Punjab.
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Family:
Mir belonged to a family of authors and journalists. Mir Abdul Aziz, his grandfather, was an Urdu, Persian, and Punjabi language writer from Sialkot. Mir’s father, teacher Waris Mir, was also a Daily Jang feature writer and an opponent of military dictator General Ziaul Haq. Mir claims that his mother lost his whole family during the 1947 exodus from Jammu to Pakistan following the country’s independence. His father died on July 9, 1987, at the age of 48, under mysterious circumstances; it has been suggested that he was poisoned by the military dictatorship. Mir enters the field of journalism following the loss of his father. Mir has three brothers, two of whom work as journalists.
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Journalistic career:
Daily Jang:
Mir began working at the Daily Jang (Lahore) in 1987 as a sub-editor, reporter, feature writer, and edition in charge. Mir was kidnapped, tortured, and driven to a residence in 1990, where his kidnappers demanded his source for a critical report he authored at a time when then-President Ghulam Ishaq Khan was intending to remove the Bhutto administration. He exposed the submarine acquisition controversy in 1994. Certain close associates of Asif Zardari (husband of then-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto) and some Navy personnel were implicated in the incident. Mir was fired from his position at Daily Jang the day his piece was published.
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