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| 2003-12-05 |
| Against Allama Tahirul Qadri Daily Insaf carried an article written by an ex-member of the Central Supreme Council of Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) that severely criticised the PAT founder Allama Tahirul Qadri. According to the article, Qadri saw a dream promising him victory in the 2002 elections. Workers all over the world sold their precious belongings to collect funds for Allama’s election but all the money disappeared without the party doing well at the polls. Objections to the leader which had mounted in the past became intense and when some activists tried to complain at a meeting Allama Sahib dismissed it by saying that there was a 180 degrees difference between his thinking and the thinking of his followers. The dream of 2000 that Allama saw promised domination of Pakistan followed by world domination, but nothing came of it. Then in 2003 once again the party convention was told that a dream had made it clear to the Allama that an army of the Mehdi was ready and that PAT had become a part of it. The Allama had lost the scholarly following because of objections to Allama’s personal conduct. Even now the leader was in the habit of threatening dismissal from the party at the smallest excuse. Billions of rupees of PAT were unaccounted for and the Allama was living a life of luxury. Nargis arrested in Gujranwala According to Jang and Khabrain famous dancer Nargis was arrested along with other artistes in a Gujranwala theatre while dancing in front of a local audience. The police alleged that she was scantily dressed and delivering obscene dialogue while she asserted that she was just singing with in gestures. Later a local court let her off on bail but she went right back and started singing the theatre saying her sister Didar too would perform at the theatre. Gujranwala is currently feverish with morality on the part of the magistracy. Nargis had gone to Gujranwala with ten gunmen to avoid being molested by the clergy. The Gujranwala obscenity hunt had begun with the arrest of Nargis some time ago. According to daily Pakistan, Nargis said she was not an ordinary dancer but a representative of Pakistani culture. A doctor confirmed that she had suffered scratches during arrest. Nargis was quoted in Jang and Nawa-e-Waqt as saying that government should have a consistent policy regarding theatre activities. If she was allowed movement in Lahore, why was it considered illegal in Gujranwala? She said she could not perform on the stage while wearing a burqa. Naked ‘malang’ at the High Court According to Insaf, a nanga malang (naked fakir) walked into the court of Justice Muzammil and demanded that he be allowed to sit in the august seat of the honourable judge. According to daily Pakistan he attempted playing with the reader of the judge (kharmastian) in his nakedness. Because of his state of complete frontal nudity (nang dharang) the staff of the High Court were shocked. Keeping their eyes averted from the spectacle of the malang’s nudity they tried to push him out, but he began wrestling with them. Justice was to be not only blind but also naked. Finally he was pushed out of the premises with great collective effort. Suicide bombing is jihad According to Jang, Justice (Retd) Javid Iqbal said at a seminar in Lahore that Pakistan and the Islamic world should declare that suicide-bombing against the West was actually jihad. It was America that was doing terrorism and not the suicide-bombers, he said. However other speakers did not agree. Said Hamid said that killing innocent people was not jihad and could not declared as such. Dr Kazimi said that Muslims had isolated themselves in the world by adopting extremism. He said non-state actors could not wage jihad. Jihad means killing Leader of he banned Jaish Muhammad, Maulana Masood Azhar, was quoted by Nawa-e-Waqt as saying that in Islam the only meaning of jihad was killing, and those who projected the concepts of jihad akbar and jihad asghar were against Islam. (Jihad Akbar is supposed to be non-violent while jihad asghar is supposed to be the war by the sword.) He said it was a conspiracy against Islam to say that jihad was not killing. He was speaking at the Pattoki gathering of the banned Lashkar-e-Tayba. |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #3 Workers all over the world sold their precious belongings to collect funds for Allama’s election but all the money disappeared without the party doing well at the polls. Allama's a Democratic Party member, it seems. |
| Posted by: Steve 2003-12-5 10:01:45 AM |
| #2 Paul - to facilitate snarkiness, please number the articles! Heh. Article #2: "famous dancer Nargis" Is this the same chick that started the gunbattle at a dance show reported a coupla weeks ago? Cheeky, if so. But she's definitely cheeky for going back to Gujranwala where she had trouble before. Asking such a logical question as, "If she was allowed movement in Lahore, why was it considered illegal in Gujranwala?" she demonstrates she is tainted, an evil infidel at heart. When it is reported that she had "gone to Gujranwala with ten gunmen to avoid being molested by the clergy" - what are we to assume she means? "She said she could not perform on the stage while wearing a burqa." F'in Duh, babe. What a trip. Pakiwackiland - it's like a whole 'nuther planet. |
| Posted by: .com 2003-12-5 10:01:37 AM |
| #1 nanga malang 9th Circuit material |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-12-5 7:58:04 AM |