lahore a senior pakistani journalist and political analyst has been assaulted by unidentified masked men who also tore his clothes as he left his office here in the punjab province a day after he termed pakistans powerful army generals property dealersayaz amir 73 was returning home late friday after recording his television show for dunya news tv channel where he works as a senior analyst when unknown persons stopped his car the attackers then manhandled him and also tortured his driver before fleeing from the scenewith bruises on his face amir said that the masked men not only hit him and tore his clothes they also took away his cellphone and wallet they left when people started gathering on the busy road pictures circulating on twitter showed the journalist sitting in a car with his shirt tornin a tweet later amir said those who attacked him did not care about his agei have no personal enmity with anyone and i had no quarrel with anyone whoever attacked me didnt even care about my age he saidthe only fault was that i speak the truth and i will continue to speak god willing he said in another tweeton thursday during a speech at a seminar in islamabad on the regime change and its fallout on pakistan amir targeted the powerful military establishment for its role in pakistans politics the seminar was also attended by former prime minister imran khanhe referred to the army generals as property dealers and even suggested removing the portraits of pakistans founder muhammad ali jinnah and the countrys national poet allama iqbal and replacing them with the property dealersin an indirect reference to army chief gen qamar javed bajwa amir said he was into his sixth year of tenure and looking for another extensionparts of amirs speech have gone viral on social mediathe powerful pakistan army which has ruled the coupprone country for more than half of its 73plus years of existence wields considerable power in matters of security and foreign policyamir also pointed out in his speech the mistakes committed by khan who was ousted from power in april through a noconfidence vote during his tenure as the countrys prime minister especially following the lines of the military establishment pakistan prime minister shehbaz sharif condemned the attack on amir and ordered punjab chief minister hamza shehbaz to hold a highlevel investigationsuspects should be brought before the law as soon as possible journalism and protection of journalists should be ensured geo news reportedpunjab chief minister hamza shehbaz has sought a report from the inspector general of police over the assault of the senior journalist and ordered that the culprits be arrested at the earliestreacting to the incident ousted premier khan tweeted i condemn in strongest terms the violence against senior journalist ayaz amir today in lahore pakistan descending into the worst kind of fascism with violence and fake firs against journalists opposition politicians and citizens when the state loses all moral authority it resorts to violencejournalists lawyer