Pakistan: Journalism under fire

As Hamid Mir recovers after being shot by unknown gunmen, we examine the wider backdrop of media killings in Pakistan.


Last year, the Listening Post featured a day in the life of Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir. We followed him around to get an insight on the risks faced by media workers in the country. Today, he is recovering in a Karachi hospital after being shot multiple times by unknown attackers.

Mir had faced threats to his life before. In 2012 a bomb was found - undetonated - attached to the bottom of his car.

It was the Pakistani Taliban that claimed responsibility for putting it there, saying it was in response to his coverage of their attack on the now iconic young rights campaigner, Malala Yousafzai. But this time round, Mir and his employer, Geo TV, have pointed the finger not at the Taliban but at Pakistan's powerful intelligence service, the ISI.