KARACHI: Senior Pakistani anchorperson Hamid Mir was injured in a targeted-shooting incident in Karachi on Saturday, Geo News reported.
According to reports, unknown armed men ambushed Mir’s vehicle as soon as it came out from the Airport onto the city’s main artery Shara-e-Faisal near the Natha Khan bridge. He received bullet injuries and was shifted to a private hospital.
Hamid Mir had said if he was attacked the ISI and its chief Lt. Gen. Zaheelul Islam would be responsible.
Sources said Hamid Mir was traveling from Karachi airport to the Geo News office when he was attacked.
Musharraf flies to Karachi for medical tests
Pakistan’s embattled former military ruler Pervez Musharraf flew to Karachi on Saturday to undergo medical tests, according to close aides, two days before he is due to appear in court in Islamabad.
It is the first time that the former president, who will be staying with his daughter in Karachi, has left Islamabad after being indicted in a high treason case by a special court last month.
Musharraf is due to appear in court in person in Islamabad on Monday in the murder case of a slain Baluch nationalist leader, or face arrest.
But his aides insisted his visit to Karachi had been pre-planned.
“He was planning to spend some time with his daughter there as his wife is in Dubai taking care of his ailing mother,” Afshan Adil, a close aide and lawyer told AFP.
“He is also supposed to undergo some diagnostic tests in a Navy-run hospital there,” she added.
It was unclear whether Musharraf would return to the federal capital for the Monday court hearing.
Musharraf left his heavily guarded farm house in Islamabad around 7 p.m. on Saturday evening.
Two armored vehicles escorted him to the airport, with surrounding roads closed to the public and a heavy contingent of rangers andFF police deployed along the route.
An AFP photographer at Islamabad airport said rangers had taken control of the area and the VVIP lounge evacuated before Musharraf’s arrival.
