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India-Pakistan
Nuggets From The Urdu Press
2012-06-24
PPP and establishment
Writing in Jang Irfan Siddiqi stated that it was not correct to say that IJI was formed in 1909s to prevent Benazir from getting into power. Major Amir who was once an ISI officer has become a political thinker (mudabbir) after taking part in the famous Midnight Jackals scam. He has said that while IJI was meant to stand against the PPP its target was to make Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi of the PPP the next prime minister in place of Benazir. After she was ousted from power in 1990 and Jatoi was promptly made caretaker prime minister to 'manage' the next general election in favour of the IJI. The establishment preferred Jatoi to 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...
to avoid problems from Sindh.

General Kakar's secret link with Benazir
Columnist Irfan Siddiqi wrote in Jang that it may not be correct to say that the establishment is always hostile to PPP because in 1993 Benazir was secretly connected with Army Chief General Waheed Kakar. She was brought to Islamabad in a special plane and Nawaz Sharif was sent home by the general.

Establishment against Nawaz Sharif
Revealing that establishment was anti-Nawaz Sharif columnist Irfan Siddiqi revealed in Jang that in 1993 before kicking out the Nawaz Sharif government President Ghulam Ishaq Khan had reached a secret understanding with the PPP. Before this President Ghulam Ishaq Khan had a special cell in the presidency collecting cases against Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari
... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ...
but the next cabinet under Prime Minister Balakh Sher Mazari featured Zardari as a minister.

Hindu girls as false brides
Daily Mashriq reported that parents of the Hindu girls who converted to Islam and then married Mohammedans men protested in front of the Supreme Court in Islamabad that their daughters were unfairly allowed to go with the Mohammedan husbands. They said that the girls while away from the Mohammedan husbands told them they did not want to be false brides because they were kidnapped by a PPP leader and MNA Mian Mithu.

Islam cannot be enforced because of sects
Quoted in Jinnah Ahle Hadith leader Hafiz Zubair Zaheer stated that Islam could not be enforced in Pakistain because of sectarian differences. He said rulers, politicians and civil military bureaucracy were not in favour of a pure Islamic system.

Pakistain helped US kill Osama!
Quoted in Jang Defence Minister Ahmad Mukhtar stated that Pakistain government and Army had a part in the death of the late Osama bin Laden
... who no longer has to waste time and energy breathing...
. After that opponents of government may want to use 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....
Commission to trap the government and unseat it but Allah will save! Jang also reported that in a TV discussion PPP and the PMLN both thought that the Abbottabad commission was nothing but a farce (topi drama).

Taliban victory will dangerous
Quoted in Mashriq General Khalid Rabbani of 11 corps on the Afghan-Pakistain border stated that a victory of the Taliban in Afghanistan will be dangerous for Pakistain because it will strengthen the Tehrik Taliban Pakistain and inflict more terrorism on Pak people. He also said that if the drones did not involve civilian casualties they could help in putting an end to terrorism.

Baloch ministers as criminals
President PPP 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...
Sadiq Imrani was quoted in Jang as saying that the ministers in the Balochistan cabinet were involved in crimes. When the bureaucracy did not give their share from the money made through corruption they got gangs to fire on their houses. He said there was no such thing as government in Balochistan.

Dr AQ Khan on Nawaz Sharif
Writing in Jang father of the Pak nuclear bomb Dr AQ Khan stated that right after Nawaz Sharif became the chief minister of Punjab his Ittefaq Foundry swelled into 30 big industrial establishments making steel, sugar, paper, textiles, etc, with an annual income of $400 million. Then the Motorway was made at the cost of Rs20 billion. Then at the cost of $700 million about 50,000 cars were imported in Yellow Cab Scheme by borrowing money from one bank and placing orders for cars at another bank. People linked to the party bravely ran away with cars including Mercedes cars causing a loss of $500 million to the banks but the Sharif family got $60 million from it according to revelations made by the next PPP government.

Rasheed on Nawaz Sharif
World famous columnist Haroon Rasheed write in Jang that during the Bhutto period the Sharif family came under attack of nationalisation and lost all its assets as industrialists during the decade of the 1970s. But today their assets are strewn all over the world and only in London they have invested millions of dollar and no law can convict them.

About Governor Syed Masud Kausar
Writing in Jang Saleem Safi stated that Khwaja Muhammad Khan Hoti (now in Tehrik Insaf) had once thrown a party for PPP friends while General Musharraf as president was also in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar. Present in the party was also the current governor of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
Barrister Syed Masud Kausar (after whose appointment FATA is today subject to chaos or loot-maar) who said that Musharraf was just like a PPP jiyala in having a good time but was not responding to his overtures.

Azam Hoti and Nasim Wali's sacred sugar
Columnist Saleem Safi wrote in Jang that the father of the present chief minister and brother of Wali Khan's wife Nasim Wali Khan - Azam Hoti - fell foul of the brigadier in charge of Peshawar after the takeover of General Musharraf in 1999 and was hauled before a court. Azam Hoti's lawyers appealed to the court for mercy because of his ill health while Nasim Wali Khan was putting scared sugar (with special prayers breathed on it) in Azam Khan Hoti's mouth.

End this internal fight!
Columnist Hamid Mir wrote in Jang to tell General Kayani
... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI...
that he should end the war against the Taliban as soon as possible because Pakistain's enemy is not internal but external and Pakistain has to unite against the external enemy. For that to happen all aspects of difference that cause internal festivities should be removed and the nation should stand up as one to face the enemy from without.

Kick out politicians, bring in technocrats!
Famous father of Pak bomb Dr AQ Khan wrote in Jang that politicians were destroying the country and now technocrats should be brought in to save it. He said he did not cry at the death of his father but cried at the separation of East Pakistain. Bhutto never called him, he offered his services to Bhutto. He told Pak Army that if you don't make the bomb you will be finished in ten years. He said India nearly died (jaan nikal gayee) after he successfully tested his Ghauri missile.

Osama fired from Al Qaeda in 2003
Talking to Mashriq Brig (Retd) Shaukat Qadir said that Osama was laid off by Al Qaeda in 2003 after which he was living as a retired gentleman. He came to Kohat in 2002 (the year he got a kidney implant) and then went to Shangla and Haripur in 2003 and to Abbottabad in 2005. He fathered four children in Haripur and Abbottabad. Daily Mashriq also reported from Abbottabad that like the people of Lyari
...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot....
people there also did not believe that anything unusual had happened. They believed Osama's dead body was brought to Abbottabad and a drama was staged.
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