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| Some ’Nuggets’ from the Pakistani Press | |
| 2003-04-25 | |
| America's not a superpower Quoted in Khabrain, PML(Q) party chief Chaudhry Shujaat said in Azad Kashmir that he did not believe that America was a superpower. He said in fact he believed that America would soon be broken into pieces. He claimed that a new power bloc composed of France, Germany, China and the Islamic world was about to emerge on world politics. Fazl and Sami to work a deal? According to daily Pakistan, Maulana Fazlur Rehman and Maulana Samiul Haq had both agreed to take back their objection to the LFO and let General Musharraf remain in uniform. In return JUI(F) was to get six ministries in the Jamali government. Maulana Samiul Haq was to get his son Haamidul Haq appointed as minister. JUI-dominated MMA government and coalition in NWFP and Balochistan would be saved from collapse. After that the MMA would be formally laid to rest. Qazi Hussain Ahmad of Jamaat Islami would lead the opposition together with PML(N) I guess Jihad can be ignored if the price is right
Sammy should sink one of our ships Daily Khabrain quoted editor Majeed Nizami as saying on 28 February 2003 that if Saddam Hussein took the bold step of sinking an American ship in the Gulf with a missile the Americans would run away from the region. He said General Musharraf may publicise himself as a liberal but in the eyes of the Americans he was one of the mujahideen. America could order India to attack Pakistan’s Kahuta nuclear installation during the coming war. He said Pakistan was next because the real target of America was Islam. He said if Pakistan wanted to fight America it had to do as China did and Pakistan had to do exactly as China would want it to do. No more dancing girls Daily Nawa-e-Waqt editorialised on the banning of dancing in girls school in Punjab and praised education minister Imran Masud for taking the step of banning all dances including folk dances like luddee. The editorial said it was the first time in the country’s history that private and state schools had been ordered to end dancing among girls. What a bold step forward! And let that be a lesson to them! According to Nawa-e-Waqt, a woman was caught by seven people from the fields of Qadirpur in Jhang and was stripped naked. They paraded her naked through the streets of the town before tying her to a pole at the central roundabout where she was made to stand naked the whole day. Townspeople pleaded with the men to let her go but to no avail. At the end of the day, they walked off with her clothes. Her husband was suspected by them of having illicit relations with their sister. The end is near Famous scholar of Islam Dr Israr Ahmad was quoted by daily Pakistan as saying that Imam Mehdi was about to descend because the Day of Judgement (qiyamat) was near at hand. He said that Imam Mehdi would defeat the forces of evil and set up the true caliphate of Islam. May the bird of paradise squat on your head As reported in Nawa-e-Waqt, the people of district Daska were thronging the banks of BRB canal after astrologers announced that the legendary bird huma would land on its bank. The huma bird confers rulership by sitting on the head of the lucky man. As a result, the population of Daska had come to the BRB together with astrologers to see if the bird sat on their head to make them prime minister of Pakistan or its general-president. On astrologers’ advice many people had shaved off their heads to make it easy for the bird and were thrusting their bald heads forward in competition with one another. The most enthusiastic were sitting coyly with ice cream balanced on their bald heads to make the bird better inclined to favour them. That would have been an...interesting sight The astrologers held that the great bird was partial to ice cream. Politicians of the local government could not be held back and they began coming to the canal with the excuse of jogging, all the while placing their heads in the best strategic location for the bird to alight on them. A lot of kite-flying too was going on while the populace waited for huma. | |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #9 Re: Bomb-a-rama: from ways to split California, an editorial cartoon that i have treasured from my college days (at SJSU): #2 Economically (North 33% "Marijuanatimberland", Middle 33% "Siliconia", South 34% "Greater Disneyland") #4 Politically (has outline around Marin/Berkeley Oakland / SF, "Leftimania", outline around Orange County "Reaganmania", rest of state labeled "Centerfornia") #6: SEISMICALLY (entire state crumbled) |
| Posted by: Querent 2003-04-25 17:42:10 |
| #8 He said in fact he believed that America would soon be broken into pieces. I'd like to see the San Francisco Bay Area broken off, towed into the Pacific, and obliterated with the biggest H-bomb in the U.S. arsenal. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-04-25 13:49:03 |
| #7 Re. the "nugget" about Chaudhry Shujaat: he is the leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (Qaid-e-Azam, or "the Great Leader" in reference to Pak founder, Jinnah). His party is so close to Musharaf that Pakis refer to it as "the King's party." The PML-Q is the only obstacle to the demise of Musharaf, who holds on to power because his own supra-constitutional concoction - the Legal Framework Order - prevents Parliament from booting him out of office. America is basing its counter-terror field operations in Asia on persons who despise Americans, and believe it should be destroyed. Future generations should hold pilgrimages to spit on the graves of those Powell-Bush elements who stabbed India in the back, in deference to the terror state of Pakistan. |
| Posted by: Anonon 2003-04-25 13:03:16 |
| #6 Quoted in Khabrain, PML(Q) party chief Chaudhry Shujaat said in Azad Kashmir that he did not believe that America was a superpower. However, it did play one on TV. I believe that was last month's miniseries. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-04-25 12:59:34 |
| #5 Re: Bird Primary I think the astrologers held stock options in local Ice cream companies... Follow the Money! |
| Posted by: Capsu78 2003-04-25 11:59:55 |
| #4 Yeah right, trading America for Chirac, SARS and Sharia... sounds like a fair deal! They should really stop smoking that Afghan stuff smuggled across their border. |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2003-04-25 10:03:55 |
| #3 We ought to find a way to hook these folks up with North Korea. Can't you see it? The Islamic Peoples Republic of North Korea. What kind of Bizarro World nutbag state would that be... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-04-25 09:14:56 |
| #2 "He said in fact he believed that America would soon be broken into pieces." A little projecting here, no? "He claimed that a new power bloc composed of France, Germany, China and the Islamic world was about to emerge on world politics. " Chinese-Islamic alliance - a Pakistani dream no? But I dont think it would make the Russians too happy. "According to daily Pakistan, Maulana Fazlur Rehman and Maulana Samiul Haq had both agreed to take back their objection to the LFO and let General Musharraf remain in uniform. In return JUI(F) was to get six ministries in the Jamali government." So is MMA definitively broken up? |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2003-04-25 08:29:10 |
| #1 More proof that inbreeding does cause insanity. |
| Posted by: Steve 2003-04-25 08:06:59 |