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Senior Pakistan TV anchor escapes car bomb plot
 Islamabad (AFP) A high-profile Pakistani journalist and television anchor escaped an assassination bid on Monday when police defused a bomb planted under his car in Islamabad, police and his channel said.The device in a metal box was found stuck under the front passenger seat of Hamid Mirs car, city police chief Bani Amin said. Mir, who hosts the Capital Talk evening show on Geo television and writes a column for the biggest-selling newspaper Jang, was criticised by the Taliban last month in the wake of the shooting of teenage activist Malala Yousafzai. It was in a tin box, there was half a kilo of explosives fitted with detonator, Amin told Geo News. He said officers have defused the bomb and are gathering evidence at the scene. Mir was on his way to his office and the bomb was apparently planted when he stopped at a market, said Geos Islamabad bureau chief Rana Jawad. Its a message to me as well as Geo and the journalist community in Pakistan, Mir told the television channel. They want to stop us from speaking the truth but I want to tell them that we will not be deterred.
Posted by: Steve White 2012-11-27 |
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