LONDON: MQM leader Alataf Hussain Sunday, in the strongest of words, condemned the filing of a case as well as issuance of non-bailable arrest warrants against Geo News senior anchorperson and columnist Hamid Mir.MQM leader, in a statement issued here, termed it a blatant attack on the freedom of expression.He demanded of the government to step in and had all such libelous cases dismissed.Earlier, according to media reports, Quetta Judicial Magistrate-III Muhammad Ibrahim Kakar issued a non-bailable arrest warrant for Hamid Mir as well as the chairman of the group and editor-in-chief of daily Jung newspaper. The court had issued Mir s arrest warrant in a case filed by a senior lawyer of Balochistan, Khalid Khan. The petitioner in his stance said that his column published on October 24, 2011, Mir had deliberately used contemptuous words against Pashtoon nationality that hurt the feeling of Pashtoon people. Besides the columnist, he had also made the editor-in-chief of the newspaper a party in the case.
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