Pakistani TV bans host of talk show after he criticised the army

Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir (AP/Anjum Naveed, File)

A Pakistani television station has removed a prominent journalist as host of a popular talk show after he criticised the country’s powerful military.

The development comes just days after the journalist, Hamid Mir, made a fiery speech at a rally in support of a fellow reporter, Asad Ali Toor, who was beaten up by three unidentified men in his flat in Islamabad.