Ch Nisar Ali Khan ISI agentChief Editor Khushnood Ali Khan wrote in Jinnah that in a recent TV discussion Tehrik Insaf leader Javed Hashmi had stated that PMLN leader Ch Nisar Ali Khan was an ISI agent. The writer asked as to why Hashmi had to disclose this crucial fact after the retirement of the ISI chief General Pasha, and not before?
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Yasin Malik has 'stuff' on Mansoor Ijaz
Indian administered Kashmire leader Yasin Malik
...
chairman of one of the two factions of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front. JKLF is a Kashmiri nationalist organization founded in Birmingham, UK in 1977. Branches weren't actually established in Kashmir for another ten years. It has the usual demands for separation of J&K from secular India so it can become an independent Islamic rathole. It seems to have no interest in Pak Kashmir breaking away to join it. In 1994 Malik renounced violence after he was released from jail and from that point he and his organization pursued peaceful means to impose their will on the region...was quoted in Jinnah as saying that if the Court in Pakistain allowed him to speak before it about Mansoor Ijaz in the Memo case then on the basis of his information the case would be soon resolved. Yasin Malik had been earlier put in contact by Mansoor Ijaz with the RAW chief in India. Daily Express added that Yasin Malik claimed that he knew so much about the memorandum of Mansoor Ijaz that in no time he will be proved liar (jhoota) if Yasin Malik was allowed to depose before the Court.
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Our wrong thinking about America
Columnist Nazeer Naji wrote in Jang that Pakistain parliamentary committee on foreign policy was created with the thinking that America was mysteriously dying to retain relations with us by the committee had no idea of what America thought about Pakistain. In the US Pakistain was the most distrusted country with whom future relations would be tied to guarantees. Those who have no experience of governance in Pakistain were shouting against America but others know that a break with the US will damage Pakistain and neither China nor Iran will help Pakistain survive this break.
| Indeed. |
Famous columnist Abdul Qadir Hasan wrote in Express Bangladesh had been reverted to secularism by the Supreme Court but in reality the country was still Islamic. This was proved when a Pak batsman, after scoring a century, prostrated himself on the ground and said his thanks to Allah. On seeing this, the Bangladeshi spectators cried Allahu Akbar in one voice.
Mangal Bagh killed in KhyberAccording to Nawa-e-Waqt warlord of Khyber Agency and Amir of Lashkar Islam gang of warriors was killed fighting Pak troops, as claimed by IG Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
. Earlier Mangal Bagh
...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency...
was involved in fighting other terrorist elements in the agency including Taliban. Lashkar Islam announced that Mangal Bagh was not killed but was alive and still fighting.
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'Took money but didn't touch it!'
Pak cricketer tossed in the clink
You have the right to remain silent...
in the UK for match-fixing Muhammad Amir told Express that he had been tricked by his captain Salman Butt into agreeing to take money for delivering no-balls; but the money he took he did not touch. He did not clarify what he would finally do with money he had decided not to touch or whether he would allow anyone else to touch it.
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Rich politicians of Pakistain
Daily Express reported that chief minister 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...
Raisani had assets worth Rs 23 crore, Waseem Sajjad had assets valued at Rs 17 crore, SM Zafar and Babur Ghori Rs 15 crore while Ch Shujaat had assets worth Rs 17 crore. Babar Awan of PPP owned Rs 10 crore, Arbab Raheem Rs 6 crore, Bashir Bilour Rs 11.75 crore, and PPP's Nayyar Bukhari had Rs 18 lakh.
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Imran Khan and disorder in Bahawalpur
Daily Jang reported that Imran Khan
... aka
Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree...
's Tehrik Insaf held a meeting in Bahawalpur but after the meeting was over the supporters of the party went berserk and caused the chairs to be thrown around and sent their cushions flying in the air. It was not known what angered the crowd into inflicting costs on the party they loved.
| Barbie says, "Temper tantrums are fun!" |
Daily Jang reported that the ANP government in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa had decided to open a variety of jobs for the eunuchs of the province. The various sectors of the government establishment will carry reserved seats for the eunuchs and see to it that normal civil servants got used to seeing the third sex in their midst without getting upset.
| How will anyone know, if they wear business clothes like everyone else? |
Quoted in Nawa-e-Waqt Al
Zawahiri... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as
the real brains of the outfit.Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area. That is not a horn growing from the middle of his forehead, but a prayer bump, attesting to how devout he is...
leader of Al Qaeda stated that Pak rulers were renegades because Islamabad was enslaved to America on the resumption of NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
supply route. Jang reported that the Taliban had threatened to kill the parliamentarians who had recommended that Pakistain should reopen the supply route. In Lahore Hafiz Muhammad Saeed
...who would be wearing a canvas jacket with very long sleeves anyplace but Pakistain...
of Jamaat-ud-Dawa
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
condemned the planned resumption of the supply route while Munawwar Hasan of Jamaat Islami vowed to stop the route resumption.
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Punjab education gets off computerisation
Daily Jang reported that Lahore High Court had asked the educational boards of the Punjab to give up trying to computerise the exam system because the computers were unreliable in an environment where electricity connections were not to be trusted.
| A trenchant point. Have they talked to their BFF China about donating some solar panels to the cause? |
| Perhaps it should be determined how many of its bureaucracy actually know their alphabet... |
Famous columnist Haroon Rasheed wrote in Jang that he could foretell that when Imran Khan wins a completely fair elections in the days to come he would be face to face with the Army Chief General Kayani
... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI...
but neither will the general ask him for favours of concession on authority nor will Imran Khan yield to him. There will no conflict between the two and the other two institutions - the administration and the judiciary - will undergo a complete reform.
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American ambassador bribed 35 Learned Elders of Islam
A front-page item in Jinnah said that after the American attack on Salala checkpost the American ambassador Mr Munter invited a group of Learned Elders of Islam from the same school of thought and gave them presents on the pledge that they would keep their mouths shut on the event. This happed in December 2011 at Islamabad G/6/1 sector. The meeting and the gifts received are being investigated.
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CR Aslam and Iraq war
Published in magazine Naya Zamana a writer recalled that after the start of invasion of Iraq by America, a meeting was held in Lahore where communist leader CR Aslam told the audience that Saddam Hussein was a greater threat to the region and that his invasion of Kuwait was far more dangerous than the US invasion. After some of those present disagreed with him, he became angry.
| Â Waitaminute -- was the Communist Leader actually correct? Truly we live in an age of miracles! |
Monthly Naya Zamana quoted Indian minister Chidambram as saying that America's revelation about the ISI having contacts with the Haqqani Network was nothing new for India which always knew that ISI was working with the Haqqanis and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.
| Â Yes. So did America. It was only the ISI that was surprised to discover that they haven't been fooling anyone. |
Reported in Naya Zamana Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party leader Mehmud Khan Achakzai stated that the Afghan problem would be ended in short order if the ISI chose to stop interfering there. He said peace in Pakistain and Afghanistan could be re-established in one month if Pakistain stopped interfering.
| So true. Clearly, Mr. Khan is a brilliant man. |