Pir Zakori Sharif in ChinaWriting an account of his visit to China in Jang, columnist Javed Chaudhry stated that in China women were running the markets while no children could be seen on account of ChinaÂ’s one-child policy. In Sinkiang he was entertained by Pir Sahib Zakori Sharif in the Pakistani delegation who sang songs like chitta kukar baneray tay to give evidence of his great talent. In Sinkiang the Chinese were found to be aggressive businessmen who werenÂ’t always too honest but the Chinese slept at nine at night and woke up early morning. They ate moderately and were all slim around the waist. In contrast Pir Zakori Sharif did Pakistan proud by eating more than ten Chinese. His waistline could fill the room and you could make ten Chinese out of him.
Pakistan did the anti-US play
Columnist Masood Ashar said in Jang that when Sheema Kirmani of Pakistan took her anti-American play Harf-e-Nashunidah to India she was not allowed to stage it there. Back in Pakistan Madeeha Gauhar and Shahid Nadeem organised the Panj Pani Festival in which the play was finally staged. The play described the suffering of women and linked it to American imperialism.
IndiaÂ’s strategic blunder
Writing in Jang Ikram Sehgal stated that Pak-Bangladesh relations had improved tremendously, with trade keeping pace with the emotion of friendship. It was no longer like 1971 which was now a part of the forgotten past. It would have suited India to have an East Pakistan hating West Pakistan but it made a strategic blunder by breaking Pakistan up.
MQM hit Sunni Tehreek!
Quoted in Nawa-e-Waqt MMA and Jamaat e-Islami leader Qazi Hussain Ahmad said in Islamabad that the Eid Milad massacre in Karachi was no suicide bombing; people responsible for it were interior minister Rauf Siddiqi and governor Ishratul Ibad. He said the stage was blown up by a bomb fixed there to put an end to the Sunni Tehreek leaders who had been unhappy with the MQM over the past many years. According to Khabrain Hafiz Saeed of Lashkar-e-Tayba said that the Nishtar Park bombing was the work of a foreign hand aiming at destroying the countryÂ’s integrity.
Who was the suicide-bomber?
Quoted in Nawa-e-Waqt (13 April, 2006) a representative of Sunni Tehreek Shahid Ghauri said in Karachi that the Nishtar Park massacre of Eid Miladun Nabi was done to eliminate the leaders of Sunni Tehreek. He said this act was connected with the killing of the founder of Sunni Tehreek Salim Qadri who was murdered by Sipah Sahaba in 2001.
MQM killed Hakim Said!
Quoted in Nawa-e-Waqt Qazi Hussain Ahmad said that the MQM had killed Hakim Said of Hamdard after killing the well known editor of Takbeer weekly Syed Salahuddin; it was also responsible for the death of Aslam Mujahid in Karachi. The police officials, 30 in number, who had helped interior minister Naseerullah Babar to mount his campaign against the terrorism of the MQM were all killed by the MQM after it came to power in 2002. Now MQM was guilty of attacking Sunni Tehreek and it had killed many members of Sunni Tehreek in the past. He said the MQM was being patronised by President Musharraf who was covering up its crimes.
Who did Nishtar Park bombing?
Columnist Hamid Mir wrote in Jang that PakistanÂ’s government was calling the April 11 Nishtar Park Karachi bombing the work of a suicide bomber so that a sectarian colour could be given to it. But the enemy could use a Muslim to do suicide bombing by paying him a lot of money. The enemy was India. When India did terrorism in Pakistan, we think it is sectarian, but when something happens in India everyone thinks it is jihadis or PakistanÂ’s ISI. It was time we thought of naming India. Yet the March 2005 suicide bombing of the Karachi American Consulate was the work of Al Qaeda. But in India there was suicide bombing of Ram Mandir in 2005, followed by cycle-bombings in Lahore, followed by explosions in New Delhi. In 2006 there was bombing in Benaras which was followed by the suicide bombing of Nishtar Park. But the bombing of Jama Masjid in New Delhi after that could not have been the work of Pakistan; that was India warning the Muslims of India.
Musharraf was to be killed like Sadat
According to the daily Pakistan Sunday magazine Umar Sheikh had conspired in 2001 to kill President Musharraf while the latter was taking a 23 March Pakistan Day salute in Islamabad like the Egyptian president Sadat. Umar Sheikh had collected the money by looting a bank in Bahawalpur and bought ammunition and explosives from an agent in Mansehra, the centre of ISI-supported jihad. But the plan backfired and Umar Sheikh was arrested in 2002. The same material was used in 2003 when Musharraf narrowly escaped an attempt on his life.