President orders probe into threats to Hamid Mir
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has taken serious notice on threats to senior journalist/anchorperson Hamid Mir and ordered investigations into it.Geo TV anchor Hamid Mir on Wednesday revealed he had received seriously threatening messages after his talk show criticising the security establishment and stated publicly that if anything happened to him, the security establishment would be responsible.Mir also sent his message to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in New York which quickly issued a blog condemning the threat and complaining that the Government of Pakistan had not done anything about similar threats to journalists in the past.
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