Cleric cripples 11-year oldAccording to Khabrain, a cleric named Qari Rauf in an Okara-Dipalpur seminary beat an 11-year-old boy so badly that his bones were broken. The boy was sent to the seminary to learn the Quran but on a small mistake Qari Rauf beat him so savagely that his arm and leg bones were broken. After that Qari Rauf threw him in a room and filled him full of sleeping pills and painkillers. After that the boy became unconscious. The Qari put him on a motorbike and threw him in front of his home.
Hajj is stay at Arafat
Writing in Jang Allama Tahirul Qadiri stated that only one act during Hajj was compulsory (farz) and that was stay (wuquf) at the plain of Arafat. Hajj was complete even if one did not even say one's prayers (nafal) at Arafat. He said there was mystery in the act of going around (tawaf) Kaaba with uncut nails and long hair and wild steps. Arafat meant getting to know and this plain was where Adam and Eve got to know each other again after being sent down from Heaven. The pilgrim, among other non-compulsory rituals, has to kill the ram at Mina to commemorate the tradition of Abraham. Abdul Qadir Sheikh wrote in Nawa-e-Waqt that even if a man just once ran across Arafat his Hajj was complete.
Killing the goat on Eid
According to Khabrain, the killing of a sacrificial animal was wajib (obligatory) and not farz (compulsory) during Hajj because the Prophet PBUH did so in light of the verses of the Quran. Allah would give sawab equal to the hair of the sacrificed animal who would be raised on the Day of Judgement. Daily Insaf reported that in France 1000 Muslims were fined for killing their goats in areas not allowed by the government. About 600 dead animals too were confiscated. France allows slaughter only in designated places. Insaf also reported that in Lahore one cow escaped the knife and climbed the roof of a house and from there jumped from one roof to another as if it knew it was about to be killed. Daily Nawa-e-Waqt reported that in Karachi hundreds of khalain (skins) were robbed under gun by two parties contending for them: Jamaat Islami and MQM.
Dr Israr goes soft on India
Writing in daily Insaf, Abdullah Muntazir stated that during his long visit in India, Dr Israr Ahmad of Tanzim-e-Islami had said that the Muslims of India were doing much better than the Muslims of Pakistan and that even the IG Police of Andhra Pradesh was a Muslim. Dr Israr said that in Pakistan the maximum number of people at his lecture were 1500 but in India they were 15000, including 5000 ladies. He then compared himself to the Holy Prophet PBUH and said that he was not valued in Mecca but was greatly prized in Madina where he migrated. (The writer asked him to migrate to India.) Dr Israr also said that the jihad in Kashmir was not fi-sabeel Allah (in the way of Allah) as allowed by the Quran because such a jihad had to be ordained by an Islamic state. He thought only the war of the Taliban against the Muslim Northern Alliance was jihad. Dr Israr's negation of Kashmir jihad must have offended the families of 10,000 Pakistanis martyred in Held Kashmir.
If innocent, walk on fire
Daily Khabrain reported that Captain Hammad who was accused of raping a lady doctor at Sui in Balochistan had offered to submit himself to a DNA test, but the people of Sui were not convinced. They said the only way he could be exonerated was if he walked on fire without screaming and without getting blisters on his feet. Many people proved their innocence in this manner among the Baloch.
How 'bakra' became 'bakri'
According to daily Insaf, a man of Muridke fainted when his sacrificial goat turned from bakra (male goat) to bakri (female goat). He had bought two goats for Rs 40,000 but was sure he had bought he-goats. But when he reached home and saw underneath the goats, he discovered them to be female goats. The seller had taped the udders in such a way that they looked like male genitals. When he removed the tape the two animals were bakri. He fainted from the insult.
Stoning the Satan at Mina
Daily Nawa-e-Waqt wrote that at Mina the hajis gather stones to throw at the jamaraat or the three devils, seven times each. Abraham was going to sacrifice his son when he was distracted by Satan. Allah asked the prophet to throw seven pebbles at him. The Satan appeared three times and was struck by seven stones each time. Now there are three pillars where the pilgrims throw stones as non-compulsory but obligatory sunnat. Jang reported that at least three hajis were killed and dozens injured while stoning the satans after Africans pilgrims brought in an ailing haji on their shoulders, which blocked the stream of hajis and caused them to stampede.
About intellectual pigmies
Writing in Nawa-e-Waqt, Irfan Siddiqi was offended with the fikri balishtiya (intellectual Lilliputians) who said that instead of trying to fight a war with the United States the Muslims should first prepare the muscles for war. Irfan Siddiqi stated that these blind men did not realise that while the Muslims prepared themselves, the United States would not sit still but will advance even further, thus negating the progress of the Muslims. Hence it was not preparation that the Muslims needed but ghairat (sense of honour) which can enable one for immediate war with rusted rifles and lathi (sticks).
Hameed Gul's daughter speaks out!
Writing in daily Pakistan magazine Tanvir Qaiser Shahid revealed that the buses run by ex-ISI chief General Hameed Gul's daughter Uzma Gul had killed 17 people in the past four years. The bus service called Varan was run on loans taken from Askari Bank. This year in January when a Varan bus killed a student, boys got out of hand and torched 10 Varan buses. Uzma Gul said after that that students should be disallowed motorbikes. According to daily Pakistan, Varan buses owned by the daughter of ex-ISI chief General Hameed Gul have caused a lot of unrest in Rawalpindi and Islamabad where they ply in great strength. After the students burnt ten buses in the wake of an accident, owner Uzma Gul got her service to strike, which led to great discomfort among the commuting citizens. SSP Rawalpindi said that he could not allow Varan to kill ten people in a year, especially as a sub-inspector Ismat Niazi that he had fired for drunkenness was now employed by Uzma as her adviser. Varan tours had 12 legal complaints (parcha) against it in Rawalpindi while Varan had 26 complaints against students.
Uzma Gul the transporter
Daily Pakistan wrote that ex-ISI chief General Hameed Gul's daughter was a brave transporter owning a fleet of buses that plied from Rawalpindi to Taxila. But she faced a lot of resistance from the administration and other vested interests in the business. Once she was also arrested and put behind bars by military police but her powerful father got her out. She began by running one bus in Sargodha in 1994. Then she became an exporter of medicines to Central Asia. Now she had a fleet in Rawalpindi but her facilities for passengers were minimal and sections set aside for women were too small. According to daily Pakistan, owner of Varan Tours, Uzma Gul got into trouble with corps commander Rawalpindi over the adda of her buses as the area belonged to the army which had acquired it. Not only was the corps commander against her and once shouted at her but DC Rawalpindi Major Ziaul Haq too began harassing her. According to the paper the area she used to park her buses was worth crores of rupees.
Hameed Gul's acquired land
According to daily Pakistan, although the daughter of the ex-ISI chief Hameed Gul claimed that he had only two squares of land, the paper referred to an investigative report which gave proof that he had acquired 15 squares of land along the Indian border at a time when he was serving as a major. He ousted a number of farmers from their land who then moved the High Court. When the court decided the matter in his favour by the year 1986 he had become corps commander and was well on his way to becoming the ISI chief and many plaintiffs had begun to stand down. The title of the investigative report was: General Hameed Gul nay sainkron aikar arazi kaisay banayi (How did General Hameed Gul acquire hundreds of acres of land). The land was in Shakargarh in three villages called Adha, Auliya and Bhopa.