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| America faked 9/11 Writing in daily Insaf, Dr Shahid Masood who does a news commentary on ARY TV channel said that there was increasing evidence that America actually manipulated the 9/11 incidents to initiate a new policy towards the Islamic world. He said there was not enough proof that the third hijacked plane was actually brought down by a tussle in the plane and not by the American fighter planes flying alongside the aircraft. He said there were only two Israelis in the World Trade Center buildings at the time the hijacked aircraft struck them.
Take Bangladesh back! Quoted by daily Pakistan, senior editor Majeed Nizami said that the army should retake Bangladesh and liberate Kashmir instead of conquering its own country. He said a presidential system would not work in Pakistan. If it was tried then the provinces would break up. Kalabagh Dam should be built without taking the consent of the provinces. There was no need to consult them because if it was not built people would die of thirst in Pakistan. He said Pakistan was incomplete without Kashmir. He added that Pakistan could not become the country the Quaid-e-Azam had dreamed of.
Sheikh Rashid is politically dead Quoted in Nawa-e-Waqt, Hafiz Hussain Ahmad of JUI said that information minister Sheikh Rashid was politically dead and would not survive four takbeers. He said some politicians changed bosses and fathers frequently. PML(N) leader Makhdoom Javed Hashmi said that corps commanders had asked for a full-time army chief last year. He said soon a repeat of what happened to Junejo will happen. In Khabrain chief minister NWFP Durrani answering Sheikh Rashid said that his government was not dead in two nafals. If governments could be toppled by clowns then provinces would be run only by clowns. He said the province will enforce namaz and will equally enforce fasting.
Ideology Council recommends death and mutilation According to Nawa-e-Waqt, Council for Islamic Ideology recommended that under Sura Maida of the Quran all citizens should be allowed to seek punishment for rebellion against the state. Sura Maida gives death, crucifixion, exile and mutilation (hand or one foot and one hand). Article 6 of the Constitution gives death or life imprisonment to those who abolish the Constitution.
Lack of entertainment According to daily Pakistan chief justice of the Lahore High Court while hearing the appeal of filmstars Shahzadi and Madiha to drop charges of fahashi (obscenity) said that Pakistan had no means of public entertainment and more curtailment of it was not possible. Meanwhile a sessions judge in Lahore issued arrest warrants of film stars Saima, Nargis, Reema and Naseebo for recording a song in rain. He even called members of the censor board who had passed the film in which the dance in the rain was featured.
Lashkar Jhangvi terrorists let off According to Khabrain, a Multan terrorist court headed by judge Abdul Qadir Shah acquitted a number of Lashkar e-Jhangvi terrorists and their notorious leader Malik Ishaq because there was no convincing proof against them. The terrorists were charged with shooting and killing two Shiites near the clock tower in Faisalabad in 1997.
Against Abdus Sattar Edhi Daily Pakistan published reactions of various leaders to a statement earlier made by Pakistan’s greatest philanthropist, Abdus Sattar Edhi. PML(N) Ghulam Dastgir Khan from Gujranwala said that Edhi’s proposal that Pakistan should sign the CTBT proved that he was a crazy man who had become rich from giving bath to corpses. He said that Edhi was working for foreign agencies against Pakistan. He said the crores [hundreds of thousands] Edhi lost through his runaway second wife belonged to the nation and were not Edhi’s. MMA leader in Gujranwala Hazarvi said that Edhi by recommending signatures on the CTBT was a mad man working for the Jews. He said Edhi’s remarks against Mullah Omar were most unjust. Mullah Omar was a great soldier of Islam who lost one eye in jihad. He said Osama bin Laden too was a soldier of Islam.
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| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #6 Take back Bangladesh and for a free bonus, you get all the arsenic you can want in the well water. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-10-18 2:31:27 PM |
| #5 Osama ever stood very far of the Russians and his "fighting" consisted in handing money to jihadis but in Pakistan. His crossings of the border were rare, short and shallow. He deserves the title of great coward of Islam. |
| Posted by: JFM 2003-10-18 11:26:25 AM |
| #4 Majeed Nizami said that the army should retake Bangladesh ... How exactly will the army get from Pakland to Bangladesh -- as tourists? I can see it now: "We would like to apply for visas, please." "Visas? What's your purpose?" "Um, ... tourism. Yes, that's it. We wish to see the many holy sites in the far east of your country." "I see ... that's a mightly large stack of visa applications you have there." "We're very pious. Can't you tell by our "I can imagine. Visas denied. Next!" |
| Posted by: Steve White 2003-10-18 11:25:07 AM |
| #3 Sounds like a draft - possibly a yard? ;-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-10-18 9:10:17 AM |
| #2 would not survive four takbeers What's a takbeer? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-10-18 9:09:21 AM |
| #1 Retake Bangladesh? Why? It's all of two inches above sea level, everyone in the country hates the Urdu speakers, and it is just about the poorest place on earth. Singing in the rain=good. Dancing in the rain=bad. |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2003-10-18 7:39:56 AM |