Imran Khan hijacked by rich politiciansQuoted in Nawa-e-Waqt Vice Admiral (Retd) Javed Iqbal stated that he had left Imran Khan
... aka
Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems...
's party Pakistain Tehrik Insaf because it was hijacked by rich but failed politicians, just as earlier the party's face was blackened by Imran Khan's support to Musharraf. He said the main reason why he quit the party was his criticism of Air Marshall (Retd) Asghar Khan which Imran Khan did not allow and asked him not to discuss party views on TV. He said the party was finished as an ideological entity because of the new entrants at the cost of old faithfuls.
IJI saved Pakistain from disaster
Famous retired politician and former IJI interior minister Nasim Ahir told Nawa-e-Waqt that he was proud to say that he together with Hameed Gul was the organiser of the IJI against the PPP because the latter was conspiring to change the country's direction by disarming it and rendering it weak. He said he was repository of great state secrets and was certain that the same conspiracy against Pakistain was afoot by the same party with changed faces.
25 jihadi groups enter Karachi
| Karachi is a large and tolerant city, welcoming the colourfully violent with open arms in numbers that would destroy a lesser place |
...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...
which had become a battlefield between the law enforcement agencies and the terrorists. This was reported by the state security agencies as incidents of killing, kidnapping and bank robbery touched a new high in the city.
CNG consumption becomes alarming
Reported in Awaz Pakistain had become the world's number one state consuming CNG with a growth rate in this consumption of 25 percent counting the CNG stations being opened despite warnings of depletion of the scarce gas. The status of top country consuming CNG was in respect of motor vehicles running on gas.
Decline of the West
Famous intellectual Orya Maqbool Jan wrote in Dunya that those people who think Pakistain is lowest of the low and that Iran and Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in their national face...
were exemplary should also accept lack of democracy there and learn to live without uttering a world against the government as was the practice in the two states. Some people also praise the system in India but Orya's experience while travelling in Orissa was that there were women lining up on both sides of the road trying to sell their bodies because of poverty. Paks also praise the West where in fact the scattering of the healthy family system was destroying people's lives who were crying over this decline.
Justice Jawad Khwaja in trouble?
Reported in Dunya one Mohsin Beg Jamil had filed reference at the Supreme Judicial Council against sitting judge Justice Jawad S Khwaja for putting undue pressure on him by openly passing personal remarks against him and asking him to change his lawyer. Mr Jamil was facing a contempt appearance.
Mufti Munib attacks Saudi Arabia
| *gasp!* |
When Quaid-e-Azam was stabbed
Writing in Jang Hamid Mir stated that in 1943 some Mohammedans aligned with Congress were pressuring Jinnah to join Gandhi against British Raj but he refused. As a result he was attacked with a knife by a Mohammedan fanatic Rafiq Sabir Muzangvi who belonged to Khaksar Movement and who later accused the Quaid of being ignorant about Islam. Today Pakistain was under threat from the same kind of fanatics.
Ending death sentence is against Islam
Quoted in Dunya chief of Sunni Ittehad Council Sahibzada Fazal Karim that it would not be acceptable if the government tried to abolish death sentence since such abolition would be against the Koran which lays down the punishment of death. He said his party would also oppose any amendment in Blasphemy Law to render it ineffective.
Tahirul Qadiri extremely rich but...
Writing in Express Asadullah Ghalib stated that Allama Tahirul Qadiri lived like a poor man and in his house. While his guests drank in beautiful glasses he used only an earthen pot for his drinks. In La Belle France and Germany and England he was often greeted by his votaries with gifts such as expensive watches, priceless properties like houses and plots of land because of his sacrifices for the religion of Islam.
Reactions to Army Chief's statement
According to Dunya PPP's information Qamar Zaman Kaira said the statement was good but he was not prepared to comment on it. Retired generals Hameed Gul and Aslam Beg
...occasionally incoherent retired four-star general who was the Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army, succeeding the creepy General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, after the latter
welcomed the content of the statement. Columnist Ayaz Amir said the statement seemed an expression of anger. Salman Ghani commented that the counter-statement of the Chief Justice indicated a possible long-term caretaker government. He said there was a possible lack of confidence between the institutions. Mujibur Rehman Shami said just a few generals had been accused of wrongdoing but that did not mean that the Army had been insulted. The lawyers defending the Chief Justice supported him by saying that in this day and age the strength of the state was not in armament.
Arabs in Tablighi Jamaat congregation
Reported in Ausaf for the first time there was a big number of Arab delegates to the annual congregation of Tablighi Jamaat
A group of itinerant Deobandi preachers who form one of al-Qaeda's recruiting arms...
at Raiwind in Lahore. The Tablighi Jamaat is an internationally active organization with a large number of delegates participating from all over the world in its annual meeting.
In praise of Aslam Beg
Writing in Express famous columnist Asadullah Khan Ghalib warned those who were criticising the government (fauj say dur bash). He stated that America and Pak media were both criticising Pakistain Army (ragaid aur lataar). Everyone is piling accusations on generals Hameed Gul, Aslam Beg, Asad Durrani which is an old conspiracy. No one accepts the honest service of Aslam Beg that he did not impose martial law but he is being pilloried for accepting the medal of democracy. No one praises him for keeping the Army away from politics. He used military exercise Zarb-e-Momin to achieve this but no one admires that. No one appreciates the fact that he kept the Army away from Iraq.
| Iraq was in danger of invasion from Pakistan? That would have been interesting. |
Army Chief addresses judiciary
Daily Dunya in its first headline announced that that the Army Chief gave the following message to the judiciary and the media: that institutions should remain within limits and that the Army will not tolerate efforts to create a gulf between officers and the ranks. No one should attach criminality to an accused person, and that no one person was entitled to decide what the national interest of Pakistain was.