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| 2004-11-05 | |
Quoted in Insaf, Dr Shahid Masood stated that Flight One that struck the North Tower in New York on 9/11 was supposed to carry 93 passengers but to this day only 86 are named and not one of them is of Arab origin. The same was true of the flight that struck the Pentagon in Washington. There were 10 passengers missing from the list which has no Arab names. In all the three hijacked planes 34 names are missing. There were supposed to be 19 Arabs in all who did the hijackings. How to account for the missing numbers? Crying husband not acceptable! According to daily Pakistan a lady named Salma Begum had approached a civil court in Lahore with the request for khula (divorce) from a husband who cried ceaselessly in sleep. She said that when she got married her mother in law told her that her husband had the habit of weeping loudly in his sleep and had to be looked after. She stated that at night her husband regularly shrieked in fear. When he came to her parents' home he did the same there too till all the household ran to their bedroom to find that he was bawling loudly with his eyes closed. After that, no one invited him. At his own house, the parents had separated the room of the couple. Salma said that it was impossible to carry on. When she asked him to see a psychiatrist he refused and became violent and beat her up quite a lot. 'Ghoonsay' at Nasrullah's anniversary According to Khabrain, the death anniversary meeting of Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan in Lahore showed up the conflict of interests that existed between the ARD parties and the clerical alliance. The workers constantly abused each other for betraying democracy. PPPP's Sajida Mir kept shouting 'mullah-military alliance' as the phrase behind the abbreviation MMA. After that the workers rained thappar (slaps) and ghoonsay (fists) on each other. The MMA workers were dominant and helped the Jama'at-e-Islami leaders to take control of the stage. Leaders from the component parties were not allowed to finish their speeches because most of them had unkind things to say to the clergy. They asked the MMA to ask the nation for forgiveness for allowing the ruling party to gain a two-thirds majority in the National Assembly to amend the Constitution in favour of President Musharraf. ANP leader Mr Ghulam Ahmad Bilour got his opportunity for personal catharsis when he shouted that he was a Muslim but not a mullah because 'the mullah prayed for money'. What they do in DG Khan Quoted in Nawa-e-Waqt, lady member Punjab Assembly Zeenat Khan stated that her constituency Dera Ghazi Khan was known as the land of seven sardars (feudal lords) which meant only the seven got everything while the common people went without anything. She said DG Khan was a primitive place where boys were preferred over girls and when men killed men they offered their daughters in wini to their enemies. DG Khan believed in honour killing and was unwilling to educate its daughters. She said there was no hospital where to treat serious patients and no university for women. Pakistan and its 'kaamyab dauray' Columnist Nazeer Naji wrote in Jang that Pakistan was the only country in the world whose leaders did kamyab dauray (successful tours) in record numbers. Prime ministers Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto were not so good in governance at home but they did tours abroad to enhance the prestige of Pakistan. Similarly President Musharraf had just finished his nth tour of the US followed by another tour of Holland and many more after Holland. Grandson of Grand Mufti becomes terrorist? According to daily Pakistan, one Yusuf bin Yusuf in Peshawar jail was the grandson of the grand Mufti of Jerusalem and was doing a term after being convicted of terrorism. He was already 80 years old and was nearing death when his defender the famous Javed Ibrahim Paracha of Kohat approached the court for leave for immediate medical attention. Paracha paid the expenses for the care of Yusuf bin Yusuf. | |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #1 "thappar" and "Ghoonsay" eh? Good upstanding Urdu words whose very sounds illustrate the actions behind them. There's a word for such kinds of words, but it escapes me at the moment. Thappar and Ghoonsay. "I've got some Thappar here, and if ya don't pay 'ttention, Ghoonsay ain't far behind, idjit!" *comment on Paleo car-swarm photo of two guys fighting over a bloody femur* "Thappar and Ghoonsay! Thappar and Ghoonsay!" ======== MMA->Military Mullah Alliance. Works for me. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2004-11-05 4:56:08 AM |