BBC Online :
Hamid Mir, the Pakistani journalist shot last month, has made his first appearance at a judicial commission set up to investigate his shooting.
The three-member panel has been conducting hearings behind closed doors in the city of Karachi this week.
Mir and his family have accused Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of orchestrating the attack in which he was shot six times.
The ISI has dismissed the accusation as baseless and misleading.
A popular and sometimes controversial anchor for the country’s leading news channel Geo TV, Hamid Mir declined to make a statement before a joint investigation team – comprising the ISI and other security services – saying he believed the ISI was among the suspects.
Last week he issued his first statement to the media, once again blaming the country’s intelligence agency for the attack.
The ISI angrily denounced the accusations when they were originally put forward by Mir’s brother, and the defence ministry says Geo brought the agency into disrepute.
Pakistan’s media regulator is considering the defence ministry’s request that Geo TV be suspended.
