Amir Mir is a senior Pakistani journalist, known for his research work on Islamic militancy and terrorism in Pakistan. Currently affiliated with Pakistan’s leading English daily The News International as Deputy Editor/Editor Investigations in Lahore, he is closely following the Pakistani politics for almost two decades now. His areas of special interest included, al-Qaeda and Taliban-linked militant and jehadi organisations, terrorism, intelligence agencies, armed forces, religious and political parties and sectarian and ethnic groups.

Amir Mir is a former editor of Weekly Independent - a hardcore news magazine which became a direct target of General (retd) Pervez Musharraf’s absolutism. Amir Mir started his journalistic career in 1988 with the English daily The Frontier Post, he has served numerous newspaper organisations in Pakistan and abroad: The News, The Nation, The Post, The Friday Times, Weekly Independent, Herald, Newsline, Reuters, Spanish News Agency, Gulf News, Arab News, Weekly Outlook, Weekly Tehelka, Daily News & Analysis (DNA), Rediff.com, Inter Press Service (IPS), Asia Times Online (AToL), etc.

Amir Mir graduated from Pakistan’s historic Government College University in Lahore with majors in Political Science, Sociology and Psychology. He started his career as a reporter while he was a student of Master’s degree in Political Science Department at University of the Punjab Lahore in the year 1989 while he was 20 years of age. The most he achieved, however, as a potential journalist was when he became a part of Pakistan’s leading English daily The News International and worked as a key team member of the News Bureau of Investigation, (NBI). During that period of time (1993-2001) a lot had gone awry on the political map of Pakistan and Mir wrote extensively on those issues. Along with The News, Mir also used to write for various publications home and abroad such as the Inter Press Service (IPS), the Straits Times, the Gulf News and weekly The Friday Times (TFT) and Monthly Newsline.

In January 2006 Mir appeared in a newly-launched English daily from Lahore, The Post, as a columnist. His columns were objective, newsy and investigative. However, in January 2008, the editor of the newspaper asked him to get the ‘topics of his columns approved by the management before sending them in’. Mir quit.

It might come as a surprise to many that right after the Musharraf regime was weakened in the aftermath of the General Elections in 2008, Amir Mir was asked by the management of the biggest media conglomerate in Pakistan, the Jang Group of Newspapers, to rejoin The News Lahore as Deputy Editor. Amir has been holding this position since September 2008, besides being the Editor Investigations of the newspaper in Lahore.

Amir Mir has so far authored four books on the subject of Islamic militancy and terrorism. While his first book - “The True Face of Jehadis” - was published by the Lahore-based Mashal Books in 2006, its Indian edition was published by the New Delhi-based Roli Books the same year. The Japanese edition got into print in 2008 by Tokyo-based The English Agency. The second book –

His paternal grandfather, Mir Abdul Aziz was a renowned poet of Urdu, Punjabi and Persian language. His father Prof. Waris Mir, bestowed upon with Pakistan’s highest civil award Hilal-e-Imtiaz in 2011, was a daring writer who is still remembered in the journalistic and intellectual circles for speaking out against the military dictator of his times, General ziaul Haq who is actually responsible for the Islamization of the Pakistani society. Amir Mir’s elder brother Hamid Mir is also a renowned Pakistani columnist and television anchor affiliated with Geo TV network while his younger brother Imran Mir works for Pakistan Television Corporation  .

Source : WIKIPEDIA