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| 2003-05-24 |
| MMA and English schools According to Khabrain, the son of chief minister NWFP, Akram Durrani, was attending St Mary’s High school Khyber Road Peshawar, while he was issuing edicts to schools to abandon the wearing of pants under orders. The son of the NWFP senior minister Sirajul Haq studied at FG Public School Khan Qayyum Stadium, Peshawar Cantt, which was English-medium. A daughter of the senior minister also went to an English-medium school. Azam Tariq achieves wisdom Maulana Azam Tariq of defunct Sipah Sahaba told Khabrain that a one-sided terrorism had been unleashed on Iraq. If he chose to make a speech on TV all the people of Pakistan will come out and go to jehad in Iraq. But he said that he had learned to be realistic and would not make the dreaded speech on TV. He said no good results were achieved from pur-josh (fiery) speeches. He said he had learned his lesson from Afghanistan where thousands went as a result of fiery speeches but thousands were martyred and the rest were made prisoners. He added that Majlis Amal (MMA) was fanning the fires of Shia-Sunni conflict. Sounds like Azam Tariq has been completely 'rehabilitated' and is being used by the establishment to atract the Jihadi vote from the MMA Hunt down Qadianis! According to Jang, at the Khatm-e-Nabuwwat rally in Multan Maulana Shah Ahmad Noorani, leader of the MMA, said that the hunt of the Ahmedis must go on and the new page should be turned to the jazba (passion) that informed the 1974 apostatisation of the sect. Maulana Fazlur Rehman said that the LFO was the completion of the Qadiani agenda (joint electorates and women’s seats) and that Qadianis should be removed from key posts. Hameed Gul’s stubborn wisdom Quoted by Jang, famous war expert General (Retd) Hameed Gul said that Saddam Hussein had raised the morale of the Muslims and that the Americans would meet their Vietnam in Iraq. He said this on the 21st day of the war against Iraq when the government of Saddam Hussein had fallen. Daily Pakistan quoted him as saying that Pakistan army had been reduced to the status of khasadar of the Americans. He said the FBI had recruited some army officers as informers. Pakistan responsible for fall of Iraq Great leader Hafiz Saeed said in Nawa-e-Waqt that Pakistan’s government was responsible for the defeat of the Muslims in Iraq the same way it was responsible for the defeat of our Afghan brothers in Afghanistan. He said Pakistan would be punished for the silence of its rulers. He said Allah was herding the infidels towards Pakistan where they would meet their end. Rejoinder to Qazi Sahib! Columnist Baig Raj wrote in daily Din that Qazi Hussain Ahmad of Jamaat e-Islami had said that to confront America there was no other way than jehad. The columnist said: for Gods’ sake stop this routine of getting other people’s children killed in jehad and tell the nation that to confront America the only way was education, knowledge and hard work. |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #1 Another Vietnam. This guy could work for the BBC or the New York Times. I like the guy Baig Raj calling the Jihadis ignorant fools and calling for hardwork, education and knowledge. I like it so much that I'll disregard that the ultimate goal is still confrontation with America. We can offer our own destruction as a motivational tool to get Islamic countries to work towards development and reform. On the other hand, do you think the mad Jihadis will fall for it? Destroying America means that we all have study and go to school and get jobs?! Nah. We prefer riding around in pickup trucks with AK-47s, threatening dire revenge and beating up women. |
| Posted by: Tokyo Taro 2003-05-24 02:42:26 |