Pak journalist Hamid Mir in London for treatment meets Malala
July 10, 2014  16:21
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Journalist and Geo News anchor, analyst and author Hamid Mir is in  London for medical treatment and check-ups and is likely to return to Pakistan in a month. Mir (47) was seriously wounded in a targeted shooting in southern port city of Karachi in April this year.

Mir arrived in London on Friday evening for pre-arranged medical appointments. He has appointments at the Cromwell Hospital in London and Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, where Malala Yousufzai was treated.

Mir will also be treated for the bladder injury which he sustained during the firing. He is unable to sit properly due to severe pain in his left leg. An orthopaedic surgeon at the Cromwell Hospital will treat him for leg injury. Its understood that senior surgeons at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham will remove the remaining bullets from Hamid Mir's body.

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Pic: Malala with her parents and Hamid Mir on the extreme right.
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