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| 2004-02-08 | |
| These nuggets are culled from the Urdu press. They are summarised here without comment. Absurd or ridiculous, TFT takes no responsibility for them General Beg had tried to sell bomb to Iran Quoted in Khabrain, PML(N) leader Ishaq Dar said that army chief Aslam Beg had first tried to sell Pakistan’s nuclear technology to Iran for $12 billion but was rejected by prime minister Nawaz Sharif. He said General Beg had brought the offer from Tehran and that he was making it public for the first time.
According to Khabrain, the Coca Cola company informed an audience in Lahore that Coca Cola was not a Jewish organisation. It was registered on the New York stock exchange and anyone could be a shareholder in it. It was producing in Palestine under the law of the Palestinian Authority and all its workers were Arabs. Its chief executive was an Australian and its sales were growing at 10 percent in Saudi Arabia. It was number one in Pakistan. Lahore will be drunk According to Khabrain wine worth Rs 20 million had already come into Lahore a week before the New Year’s Eve. It predicted that kalashnikovs would be fired and women would be drunk with alcohol. About 30 thousand people had left Pakistan to celebrate the New Year abroad. Many Lahore actresses would be showing their body abroad. The posh areas of Lahore were ready to show decadence. Sending others’ sons to jihad Columnist Raja Anwar reproduced in Khabrain the letter of a poor girl from Bahawalpur who stated that her hafiz Quran brother was taken by a jihadi organisation to jihad in Kashmir where he was killed. The columnist asks the makers of jihad, Hamid Gul, Aslam Beg and Ziaul Haq, how they would compensate the poor sons they had sent into the fire of jihad while their own sons were being educated in America and the West? The girl had appealed for help to prevent her family from starving to death. The columnist wondered how in Pakistan alms were available for the clergy but not for the deserving poor? Make Pakistanis Allah’s army Appealing to the Pakistan army, Major (Retd) Amir Afzal wrote in Nawa-e-Waqt magazine that it should apologise for its misdeeds and make itself into Hizbullah (party of Allah) and then convert the population of Pakistan into Hizbullah and use the big weapons with great care. All the foot-soldiers should be converted into shroud-wearing mujahideen ready to make night raids against the enemy. The entire nation should have one gun each and become a great flood of warriors to make Pakistan a castle of Islam. Ehsan Elahi Zaheer and Saddam Hussein Columnist Chaudhry Asghar Ali Kausar Waraich quoted Maulana Ibadur Rehman Ashrafi in Nawa-e-Waqt on an incident that took place after a Pakistani delegation went to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war. During the meeting with Saddam, Jamiat Ahle Hadith leader Allama Ehsan Elahi Zaheer made a speech in Arabic which was so effective that Saddam started crying and requested for another speech from him in favour of Islamic brotherhood so that he could cry more. | |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #6 Sending others’ sons to jihad Something very human about that. this is something that the elite jihadis are good at. |
| Posted by: Dan 2004-2-8 4:42:20 PM |
| #5 The reason he wasn't promoted to general is because he fails to state the obvious: in the name of what Pakistan should spend life and treasure in order to get more suckers travelling to Mecca and making the Saudis richer? |
| Posted by: JFM 2004-2-8 12:43:58 PM |
| #4 Major (Retd) Amir Afzal wrote .... that it should ... convert the population of Pakistan into Hizbullah and use the big weapons with great care. All the foot-soldiers should be converted into shroud-wearing mujahideen ready to make night raids against the enemy. The entire nation should have one gun each and become a great flood of warriors to make Pakistan a castle of Islam How come this guy retired as only a major. He's a strategy genius! |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-2-8 12:15:26 PM |
| #3 drunk on his best dramatic inner voice... I don't have a clue about the syntax of Urdu but perhaps this is the language's normal inflection...dramatic... or perhaps that's how the Urdu translator thinks English sounds... Dramtic. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-2-8 7:47:37 AM |
| #2 Sounds like a rockin' New Years in Lahore. Prolly empty out Vegas, unless those Lahore actresses come here to show their bodies. And yumm, posh decadence. The author of this piece is drunk on his best dramatic inner voice... |
| Posted by: .com 2004-2-8 2:07:18 AM |
| #1 Sending others’ sons to jihad Something very human about that. |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-2-8 1:37:08 AM |