Quoted in Jinnah PMLQ leader Mushahid Hussain stated that army chief Aslam Beg had invited Ch Shujaat Hussain to his house and tried to persuade him to take Mehrangate money in order to oust the PPP. But the Chaudhrys refused to take the bait and declined to support Aslam Beg.
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Even Sartaj Aziz took Mehrangate money!
Quoted in Jinnah
Pervez PervMusharraf
... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ...
stated that that the claim of Younus Habib was correct and the truth is that everybody took money before the 1990 election. He said that it was true that even Sartaj Aziz of the PMLN took the money.
Jamaat Ali Shah speaks out on Indian dams!
Ex-Indus Waters Commissioner Jamaat Ali Shah who was rumoured to have decamped abroad spoke in Lahore to Jinnah
| ...which suggests the rumours were false... |
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'The robe of PMLN is without a spot!'
| There was no comment on the status of the undergarments, however. |
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Javed Hashmi accuses PPP
Tehrik Insaf leader Javed Hashmi who is accused of taking ISI money as a member of PML told Mashriq that the accusers Younus Habib and Yusuf Memon were both linked to the PPP. He said
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 all politicians accused of taking bribe for the 1990 elections should present themselves for accountability. According to Nawa-e-Waqt, Hashmi claimed that Younus Habib was a turncoat who once offered to be a witness against
Asif Ali President Ten PercentZardari
... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ...
Aslam Beg's son-in-law got Rs 155 million
According to Jinnah Imtiaz Ali son-in-law of Army Chief General Aslam Beg got Rs 155 million
| At an exchange rate of PKR 90.89 to the dollar, 155,000,000 PKR = 1,705,418.10Â USD, which is rather a large bribe by American standards. |
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Mian Mehbub defends Objectives Resolution
Ex-Chief Justice of Lahore Court Mian Mehbub Ahmad was quoted by Nawa-e-Waqt as saying that Pakistain's Objectives Resolution of 1949 was greatly similar to the Mithaq-e-Madina, the charter proclaimed for the city of Madina after Hijrat. He said both ensured the rights of the non-Mohammedan minorities.
| Was that when Mohammed was still preaching kindness to those Allah hates, before he got into the conquesting and enslaving and paying jizya? |
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Lord Nazir and America
Member of the House of Lords in the UK Lord Nazir was quoted in Nawa-e-Waqt as saying that America was not Pakistain's friends but an enemy that used hypocrisy (munafiq) in its relationship with Pakistain.
| Quite unlike Pakistan, which uses taqiyya, because as Mohammed said, "War is deceit." |
| Is not Saudi Arabia Pakistan's best friend and benefactor? What happened? |
| Said peace and prosperity being demonstration of Allah's approval. But what will happen if Allah continues not to approve? |
Columnist Hasan Nisar wrote in Jang that the IJI alliance made with Mehrangate money by Army Chief Aslam Beg was the Party of Satan which is formed to drink the blood of the people of Pakistain. The IJI, though named as an Islamic alliance, had nothing to do with Islam; in fact it brought a bad name to Islam and insulted the Pak people.
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A poor country of rich senators
Daily Jinnah reported that a number of senators in Pakistain were very rich owning assets abroad more than in Pakistain. Chairman Senate Nayyar Bukhari owned plots in Islamabad valued at more than a billion rupees. 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.
owned 40 kanals in Sialkot worth crores, a plot in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
DHA and a house in London worth Rs33 crore. Ishaq Dar too owned big business and property abroad.
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'I will drag PPP rulers on roads!'
Fearless chief minister of Punjab Shahbaz Sharif was quoted in Express as saying that after the next election he would catch hold of the 40 thieves of PPP and drag them on the road from Larkana and Bloody Karachi all the way to Lahore. He said the prime minister did not want to write a letter to Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
because he wanted to protect the looted wealth of Zardari. He said Zardari wanted to hide his wealth behind the grave of his wife Benazir Bhutto
... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in...
Plastic surgery not allowed
Quoted in Express Allama Ibtisam Elahi Zaheer of Ahle Hadith said that plastic surgery was not allowed in Islam but those suffering from a birth defect could resort to it. Some other holy mans said that if a nose is crooked it can be put right through plastic surgery. But a eunuch said plastic surgery was necessary for his class because they became gay after surgery.
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Lawyers thrash court officials
Reported in Express a group of lawyers went berserk at a court of Lahore Cantt when court officials did not register their case according to their desires. They attacked the court notary (muharrir) and gave him a good thrashing and people who came to rescue were threatened by the lawyer gang (wukla-gardi). They were also deprived of their money and other belongings by the enraged wukla. The court officials decided to close down the court and go on strike.
| Â Pakistan is a very, very special place. |
Columnist Hamid Mir wrote in Jang last time he was London a member of parliament said to him that since he had met Osama bib Laden he should be able to tell if the ISI was in the dark about Osama living for years in Abbottabad
... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden....
. To which Hamid Mir replied that he was sure the ISI and the Army did not know that Osama was staying in Abbottabad. It was incompetence (na-ehli) of the two rather than complicity.
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Imran Khan is like Gadafi
Reported in Mashriq Salman Rushdie said in India that Imran Khan
... aka
Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems...
had joined the Army and the Mullah in his politics and was not sincere. He added that Imran Khan would end up being like Libya's Gadafi who caused so much suffering to his people. Imran Khan even looked like Gadafi and if someone likes to make a film of on Gadafi Imran should star in it. He said in his youth he used to call him playboy but now he simply calls him an idiot.
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Memogate ended Pasha's career
Daily Mashriq reported that ISI chief General Ahmad Shuja Pasha ended his career by mounting the Memogate case against the PPP and left his job after implicating Pakistain in an expensive litigation in which the main character Mansoor Ijaz lied to protect American interests to an extent that the case became jeopardised.