Held Kashmire versus ChristiansReported in Mashriq in Indian-held Kashmire the Moslems were becoming angry at the Christian missionaries who they thought were converting Moslems to the Christian faith. The mufti of the Shariat Court in Srinagar actually asked four missionaries to quit Kashmire because they were converting people against the law.
| It is often said by Muslims that they lose six million a year in conversion to Christianity, although the number may actually be quite a bit higher. |
Daily Pakistain reported that foreign aid agencies doing charity work in Pakistain had complained that their work was at a standstill because their workers were being kidnapped for ransom. Health and welfare workers were being targeted and four of them had been picked up for ransom during the year 2011. International Red Thingy had suspended work after the kidnapping of their British official. Workers had to move with great care and had to inform local authorities before moving.
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Another blasphemer sentenced to death
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Two Moslems unfairly punished in Norway
According to Jang two brave Moslems were incarcerated in Oslo for ten years by a court hearing a case of planning to attack the offices of a publication that printed blaspheming cartoons. The court had for the first time punished the two for planning terrorism.
| For a definition of unfairly that means very fairly indeed. |
Reported in Jinnah Lahore famous sufi shrine Data Darbar was the site of unnatural acts (bad-fayli) practised in small flop houses around the shrine. At the back of the shrine, three kinds of people got together: criminals, runaway children because of poverty and voyeurs. There was rampant paedophilia (child sex) in the area.
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University professor against hijab
Daily Jinnah reported that Lahore's King Edward Medical University was scandalised when one professor Dr Shehryar of cancer department started reciting verses of the Holy Koran to girl students before snatching the hijab from their faces. He removed the veil of one girl student by force. He was reported to the vice chancellor after which the Young Doctors Association went on protest and wanted the doctor removed from his job for using Islam to unveil girl students. They also demanded his forced retirement.
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Raja Riaz is 'lafanga'
Famous law minister of Punjab Rana Sanaullah was quoted by Jinnah as saying that the PPP opposition leader in Lahore was a 'lafanga leader' - a bad word meaning vagrant - who unfairly wanted an apology from him. He said if Musharraf - who had had Sanaullah tortured - could not get him to apologise how could 'lafanga' Raja Riaz extract it?
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'Trees will vote for Shah Mehmood!'
Daily Express reported that people in the constituencies of Shah Mehmood
WormtongueQureshi and Yousaf Raza Gilani had the following kinds of opinion: Qureshi supporters said that Qureshi was so great that, if he wanted, the trees of Multan would come and vote for him. The supporters of Gilani said that the PM did not come to meet them but they would still vote for him. A third group said that both were quite useless.
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'Imran supported by foreign agencies!'
Daily Express quoted
Maulana Fazlur RehmanDeobandi holy man, known as
Mullah Dieselduring the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ...
of JUIF as saying that Imran Khan
... aka
Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree...
may not be able to win his seat in parliament once again in the coming elections. He said Imran Khan was being supported by foreign agencies. He said Imran Khan did not want to bring any changes but it was because of foreign hand that political orphans were running around wanting to join him. He said his party will make governments in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
and Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it....
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When Satan protested
Famous law minister of Punjab Rana Sanaullah was quoted by daily Pakistain as saying that the event of PPP lawyer Babar Awan going for 'umra' (small hajj) had caused the Satan to protest to God. Satan was supposed - according to him - to be greatly worried that if as a result of begging for mercy at Makka, Babar Awan was forgiven by Allah, then Satan would be left without a companion on Earth.
| Surely somewhere in Pakistan a companion for Satan can be found... |
Column-writer Hamid Mir stated in Jang that in 1990 Army Chief Aslam Beg got together with the ISI to illegally distribute Rs 14 crore among those opposing the PPP in elections. This was revealed by PPP interior minister Major General (Retd) Naseerullah Babar in April 1994. Later he got an affidavit signed by the ISI chief General Asad Durrani that he had, on the orders of Aslam Beg and President Ghulam Ishaq Khan, distributed the said money among politicians opposed to PPP. Air Marshal (Retd) Asghar Khan took the case of illegal distribution of funds to the Supreme Court in 1996 after which Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah began investigating the affairs of Mehran Bank as the source of the money. But Justice Shah fell foul of Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
and judges on the Supreme Court. Justices Rafiq Tarar and Saeeduzzaman Siddiqi revolted against Shah and ousted him. Later the Court buried the Asghar Khan case because the prime minister, the ISI and the Army were in favour of burying it.
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Astrologer Pameela Khan predicts
Quoted in Jinnah famous astrologer Pameela Khan stated that the year 2012 was the year of elections but there will be danger to Pakistain's security and the reigning government. She said to save the country the system of governance will have to be changed and if Nawaz Sharif did not bring to the front honest leaders from his party he might lose the elections coming early in 2012.
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Changing the clock in Court
An interesting dialogue in the Supreme Court was reported by daily Pakistain PM Yousaf Raza Gilani's defence lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan prayed to the Court that the clock that was on the wall behind be brought to the right side of him so that he could see it. On this one judge said that the clock could be moved if he also moved from his position about PM writing the letter to the Swiss Court. Another judge said that if the clock was allowed to move then it would be like Aitzaz shifting his positions while arguing the contempt case.
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Sipah Sahaba joins BLA
Interior Minister Rehman Malik
Pak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men.
was quoted by Mashriq as saying that Sipah Sahaba that was notorious for killing Shias and opposing Iran had joined up with BLA the Baloch liberation army to push forward their programme of terrorism. This cooperation between the two was being managed by hostile forces and that Pakistain would fight the terrorism spread by them.
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Eunuchs and their parenthood
Daily Mashriq reported that khwajasara persons or eunuchs had quarrelled among themselves at the Supreme Court while sorting out the dispute arising out of their right to possess an ID card. So far the card was not issued because there was no category for the third sex in it. The new dispute was if the parents should be mentioned who gave them rights or their gurus from whom they inherited property.