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India-Pakistan
Nuggets from the Urdu press
2011-06-20
Go to the link to see the utterly adorable pen-and-ink sketches accompanying each nugget. I haven't yet figured out how to bring them over here.
Osama was America's creation
According to Nawa-e-Waqt Famous Islamic warrior Hafiz Saeed said in Lahore that after Abbottabad America will strike further afield in Pakistan. Other ulema said that Osama was America's creation but burying him at sea was against Islam. In Abbottabad, a procession of youths went around chanting that Osama was not dead (zinda hai).

America had the right to attack!
Governor Punjab Abdul Latif Khan Khosa was quoted by Jinnah as saying that America had the legal right to attack Abbottabad to get Osama because he had attacked them first. He said no effort to unseat the PPP government will succeed.

Osama is shaheed!
Famous columnist Irfan Siddiqi wrote in Jang that he was sad that he could not tell his fellow countrymen that they could not call Osama shaheed because our king and emperor America would be annoyed by it. Pakistan was for ten years in the camp opposed to Osama because Pakistan was begging America for livelihood (naan-nafqa).

It is not our war!
PMLN leader from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Iqbal Zafar Jhagra was quoted in Express as saying that the war against terrorism was not Pakistan's war but had been imposed on Pakistan by Musharraf. On this the PPPP leader Abida Hussain stated that Nawaz Sharif had tested the bomb only to go back to the US for funds. Zafar Hilaly said that the PK was taking orders from the ISI.

America will attack Kahuta!
World-renowned military genius and ex-ISI boss Hamid Gul was quoted by Jang as saying that after Abbottabad, America will act against Kahuta after which Pakistan will not be able say that our radars were jammed.

Osama loved 'desi murghi'

Reported in Jinnah while Osama lived in Abbottabad he favoured local chicken (desi murgha) and had bred a whole lot of them. He also had two buffaloes for providing him with milk which he preferred to cow's milk. At home he had two wives, one spoke Pashto while the other spoke Urdu and the two had three children from him.
I thought two of his wives were educated Saudi women, while the third was a Yemeni girl with "some school", but what do I know?
America out to defame Pakistan!
Famous military analyst Brigadier (Retd) Hamid Saeed was quoted by Jinnah as saying that the death of Osama was an effort by America to defame Pakistan through subjecting Pakistan's ISI to pressure and to alienate the people of Pakistan from the army.

Osama killed Benazir!
Interior Minister Rehman Malik was quoted in Jang as saying that Osama and his affiliates were involved in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, therefore Osama could be no hero of Pakistan.

Resham: take house and run!
Reported in Jinnah famous Pakistani actress Resham took a house worth crores of rupees from the famous dress designer Mahmood Bhatti and got engaged to him, but when he pressed for marriage she began to make excuses (tarkhana). The house in Gulberg was worth Rs 10 crore. She also took a 'monthly' of several lakh rupees and was now pretending to suffer from asthma.

Lawyers pray for Osama
According to Jang the pious wukla persons of Peshawar were so prostrated by the death of Osama that they offered a namaz janaza in absentia in the compound of the High Court. In Quetta popular cleric Maulana Nur Muhammad led a procession of youths condemning the killing of Osama bin Laden by Americans. Namaz was said for Osama by lawyers in Abbottabad too.

Osama's death will damage Al Qaeda
Writing in Jang, Suhail Warraich stated that Osama's death will dampen the terrorist campaign of Al Qaeda and affiliates in Pakistan which will give some breathing space to democracy and allow politicians to hold rallies without the fear of being killed.

'Q' stands for 'qalabazian'
Stormy PMLN petrel Ch Nisar Ali Khan was quoted in Jang as saying that the letter 'q' in MQM stood for qalabazian (somersaults) because it was in and out of the government. He said its only intent was to cling to power (chipakna) leading to an unholy alliance (napaak) with the PPP.

Osama was great!
Writing in Jang, Saleem Safi stated that Osama bin Laden was the beloved founder of Al Qaeda because of his commitment to the cause of terrorism and not because of his ability to kill people. He was a rich man but had abandoned the pleasures of this world.

Jamaatud Dawa leads pro-Osama protest
Reported in Express a collection of religious parties, Jamaat Islami, JUI led by Jamaatud Dawa held angry protest marches across the country including funeral prayers for the martyr Osama bin Laden.

Suspicious of General Pasha!
Writing in Jang Nusrat Mirza wrote that he was highly suspicious of the visit of ISI chief General Pashto to the US just before Osama was killed in Abbottabad. Was he in Washington to put a price on Osama's death? He would like to know what Pakistan got in return? The fact is that Pasha had gone to the US to plan the attack on Abbottabad.

Sheikh Osama Lion of Islam!
See? I didn't just make it up.
Front page of the banned but ABC-awarded Jaish newspaper Al Qalam had one named Saadi - probably pen-name of Jaish chief - called Osama the Lion of Islam whose death had caused the Muslims to cry so much that they had developed a hiccup. Such lions are born once in many centuries.

Not Osama but Zain killed!
Daily Nawa-e-Waqt announced that Osama was not killed by the Americans in Abbottabad but another jihadi leader Zain was killed who was Osama's lookalike and was living in the same area with his son. Both are now without a trace.

Fazlur Rehman annoyed by Osama questions
Reported in Express JUI chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman who was in Brussels representing Kashmir Committee was greatly annoyed when journalists kept asking him awkward questions about the killing of Osama bin Laden. He lost his cool when the journalists kept at it even after he had said no comment to their questions.

Americans took Osama alive!
Reported in Jinnah Americans took Osama from Abbottabad and gave out false snaps of him as a dead man while throwing someone else's body into the sea. The photo issued by them could be his son's .Americans took one man alive with them. Who was this man if not Osama?

Unpopular decisions for the sake of country!
President Zardari was quoted by Express as saying that he had taken some tough decisions for the sake of the country and was facing reaction from the people but the country was faced with a big crisis. He said Allah will help while he was not willing to run away from the situation.

Al Zawahiri betrayed Osama!
Daily Nawa-e-Waqt quoted an Arab source saying it was Al Qaeda number two Al Zawahiri who was tired of Osama at the top and finally got rid of him by tipping the Americans on his location in Abbottabad. There were differences between the two, which caused Osama to leave the Tribal Areas.
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#3  Was this in Daily Jang or some Jinn Edited Broadsheet


The Daily Jinnah is the newspaper founded by the Father of Pakistan himself, Mr. Mohammed Ali Jinnah, esq., barrister of the London bar, Indian Muslim intellectual, despiser of Mohandas Gandhi -- who deserved every bit of that despite and then some -- first president of independent Pakistan...and publisher. He had this odd idea that Pakistan could remain a country for Muslims without being a Muslim country, and died so quickly thereafter of tuberculosis that he never had to regret his choices.

I don't know anything about those other johnnie-come-lately rags. An army of hardened lawyers may not be enough to deal with that lot; we may need to call up the infinite nanobots. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2011-06-20 19:01  

#2  Yeah, we've got him locked up tight in an undisclosed location.

And he's singing like a canary.

Guess who's next?
Posted by: Barbara   2011-06-20 17:34  

#1  Reported in Jinnah Americans took Osama from Abbottabad and gave out false snaps of him as a dead man while throwing someone else's body into the sea. The photo issued by them could be his son's .Americans took one man alive with them. Who was this man if not Osama?

Was this in Daily Jang or some Jinn Edited Broadsheet. We'll need a hardened team of armoured lawyers to deal with these suckers eventually.

Posted by: Goldies Every Damn Where   2011-06-20 16:38  

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