Journalist Hamid GEO Mir injured in gun attack in Karachi

The incident took put on Sharae Faisal close Natha Khan zone when the shooters opened fire on his vehicle around 5:30pm. 

The journalist was en route to his office from the airport when he was attacked.

"Four shooters riding on motorbikes started shooting at the auto close Karsaz (around six kilometers from Jinnah International Airport) when Mir's auto was passing through, he gained three bullets in the easier parts of his body," said senior police authority Peer Muhammad Shah.

Shah said a solitary shooter first started shooting at Mir's auto, trailed by others who pursued him on motorcycles.

Karachi police boss Shahid Hayat said Mir endured three gunshot wounds to the stomach and the upper legs.

"Hamid Mir has accepted three bullets but the doctors told me that he is out of threat," Karachi police boss Shahid Hayat told news org AFP.

Mir's partner Rana Jawad said he had talked quickly to Mir on his cell telephone as he was under attack. 

"I spoke to him quickly when he was getting away, he said they have shot him and now they were taking after him," said Jawad.

"He has been shot thrice, in the pelvic, midriff and thighs," he included.

Mir was taken to a private hospital for crisis treatment. The journalist was taken to the hospital in a state of obviousness.

Taking after a surgery lasting two-and-a-half hours, hospital administration said the journalist's condition was stable, but that he might be kept under observation.

Companions and partners said Mir had long ago told them that on the off chance that he is attacked, Pakistan's intelligence org, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), "and its boss Lt General Zaheerul Islam will be capable".

Addressing Geo News, his brother Amir Mir said the senior anchorperson had visited him and educated him of what he called an arrangement hatched by Lt-Gen Islam to assassinate him.

Geo News, the media organization for which Mir lives up to expectations, reported that he had likewise sent a recorded feature to Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) implicating the ISI in any attempt on his life. 

In the interim, a representative for the ISPR, the military's advertising wing, censured the attack on Hamid Mir, and said an independent request must be done to ascertain facts behind the attack.

"However raising allegations against the ISI or the head of ISI without any groundwork is exceedingly regrettable and misdirecting," he said.


Condemnation 

Shortly after the attack, messages of condemnation started spilling in against the attack the prepared journalist's life.

In a message, President Mamnoon Hussain censured the attack and communicated distress at the incident.

Social media likewise blasted with messages of condemnation.