There are a bunch of Pakistani journalists whose courage appears to be inversely proportional to the momentum of the downward slide of their country into fundamentalism and chaos. Amir Mir is one of them. Benazir Bhutto appreciated his reputation and spoke to him of her suspicions of a plot to murder her, long before it actually materialised on December 27, 2007, just after she attended a public meeting at Liaqat Bagh in Rawalpindi, barely 4 km from the Pakistan Army’s GHQ.