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| More on the Case of the Disappearing Hafiz... |
| 2002-08-01 |
| Excerpted from the Markaz ad Dawa web site. Spelling and grammar are untouched... Deputy Attorney General Sher Zamaan told in the proceeding of the court that Federal Government has no knowledge about Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and neither has the Federal Government taken him into custody. "Nope. Wudn't us..." At this the petitioner's lawyer Nazir Ahmad Ghazi said that if Federal Government has no knowledge about then has Colleen Powell taken him away with him? Why? Was she seen in the area? Perhaps he eloped with her. You know how romantic and impulsive those Islamists are... Deputy Attorney General Sher Zamaan Khan said it's possible that Hafiz Muhammad Saeed is hiding to earn publicity, at which Advocate Nazir Ahmad Ghazi said that Hafiz Muhammad Saeed is that personality thinking of whom Indian Prime Minister Vajpayee shivers and President Bush talks about him in his press conferences, you cannot expect such an act from a person like Hafiz Muhammad Saeed. If the words "Hafiz Saeed" have ever escaped Bush's lips I'll donate a dollar to the Jihadis' Benevolent Fund... He is already well known on the international media. Petitioner's lawyer presented the July,29 daily Nawa-i-Waqt news paper cuttings of Provincial Minister of Religious Affairs Ghulam Sarwer Qadri interview and said that the Minister himself admits that Hafiz Muhammad Saeed is in their custody and he is fine. Court ordered the newspaper cuttings to be made part of the court record and said that a regular application be submitted in this respect. Perhaps Mr Minister of Religious Affairs will be kind enough to say a word or two, too, and clear the matter up... Has Hafiz been Disappeared? Has he become a non-person? I suspect he's sitting in a house somewhere outside Lahore, maybe with Binny, chuckling and saying the Urdu equivalent of "This is so-o-o-o neat!" At an appropriately dramatic time he'll make an appearance, his turban disheveled, a smudge on one cheek and his arm in a sling with a tale of having escaped from brutal secularists. Here's hoping I'm wrong and he's now having tea with Judge Crater and Ambrose Bierce. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |