Osama Khalid to lodge FIR against Hamid Mir

* Former ISI official Khalid Khawaja’s son says audiotape original, will prove it in court
* Demands journalists kick ‘black sheep’ out of profession

LAHORE: Osama Khalid, son of former Inter-Services Intelligence official Khalid Khawaja who was murdered by relatively less-known terrorist group the Asian Tigers on April 23, has said that he will take legal action and register an FIR against Geo News anchor Hamid Mir over what he called “playing an instigative role in his father’s murder”, a private TV channel reported on Wednesday.

Talking to the BBC Urdu, Khalid said the unidentified Taliban in the audiotape was Usman Punjabi who used an alias of Muhammad Omar while talking to various journalists.

Mir, who is in the midst of a raging debate on journalistic ethics, called the taped conversation “doctored”.

Original: Osama rejected Mir’s claims, saying the audiotape was original and he would prove it in court.

“Hamid Mir instigated the militants to murder my father,” he said, adding he would soon register a case against Mir for murdering his father.

He also requested the Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry to take suo motu notice of the incident.

Kicking: Osama also demanded a judicial inquiry into the matter, and asked journalists to kick the “black sheep” out of the profession.

The audio clip had Mir divulging dirt on Khawaja, ostensibly to the Taliban militant who was to cross examine the former ISI official.

The person on the other end asks Mir for information on Khalid Khawaja. Mir goes on to link Khawaja to the CIA, an international network of Qadianis and an American named Mansur Ejaz.