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India-Pakistan
Nuggets from the Urdu press
2003-10-03
Quetta killer was Ramzi Yousef's brother-in-law
According to Khabrain, the mastermind of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi gang that killed Hazara Shias in Quetta turned out to be a brother-in-law of the famous terrorist Ramzi Yousef. Daud Badini was also connected to Al Qaeda. The killings were staged to avenge the death of the Lashkar leader, Riaz Basra, who killed Shias as an article of faith. The government had thought that the Hazaras could have been killed by Indian agents working in Afghanistan.

America expurgating Quranic verses?
Leader of banned Lashkar-e-Taiba, Hafiz Saeed, was quoted in Nawa-e-Waqt as saying that the Americans were getting the Pakistan government to take out certain Quranic verses from the course books. Instead of Islam, the government was spreading obscenity and teaching the girl students to dance. He said last time lights went out in the US, thousands of women were raped but this time there was light outage for thirty hours which means that even larger number of women were raped. The Americans were greatly worried that the world will get to know that hundreds of thousands of women were raped during the outage in the US this year.

Dead wife of Qadiani rejected
Daily Nawa-e-Waqt reported that in the vicinity of Chenab Nagar the dead wife of a Qadiani was sought to be buried secretly at night in a Muslim graveyard by a group of Qadianis. The Muslims arrived on the spot and there was a scuffle between the two parties. After that the dead body was driven out of the Muslim cemetery and the Qadianis took it to their own graveyard and buried it there. On this a wave of joy spread among the Muslims while the Qadianis were filled with despair.

Getting the jinn out
According to Khabrain, a fraudulent saint killed a boy in Sukkur while taking the jinn out of him. The boy of 16 was suffering from mental disease but his parents took him to the bogus saint known for exorcism. The saint branded his genitals with red hot iron rods so that the jinn would feel pain and come out. Later he broke all the bones of the sick child too but the jinn did not come out. The boy died in hospital later and the parents said they were deceived by the saint Pir Raja Shah and his companion Khalifa Zawwar Iqbal into believing that there was a jinn inside their son.

Four theatres closed in Gujranwala
According to Jang, the wave of strict law was further strengthened in Gujranwala when the local district judge ordered the closure of four drama theatres in Gujranwala for not following the scripts earlier submitted to the government. The theatres were closed under charges of obscenity.

Killed after being let off for blasphemy
According to Jang, Maulvi Sanaullah was gunned down by eight people in Qasur after he was let off on bail by the High Court in Lahore for lack of evidence on blasphemy charge. One year earlier a case of blasphemy was brought against him for saying insulting things from the loudspeaker of the Ahle Hadith mosque. After getting bail he was sitting in his house when a gang of known assailants fired on him but did nit succeed in killing him. But a month later the same gang finally killed him. The police which registered the case a year ago was unable to protect him against the killers.
Posted by:Paul Moloney

#4  Getting the jinn out is Pak slang for getting the lead out I hear........

I wonder what tipped the parents off to this shaman being a fraud? Was it possibly when he put a hot iron to their kid's testicles? No, couldn't of been that.
Posted by: Jarhead   2003-10-3 9:19:28 AM  

#3  the government was spreading obscenity and teaching the girl students to dance

Yes, that's what we use our unparalleled power for -- TEACHING GIRLS TO DANCE!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2003-10-3 8:57:41 AM  

#2  Pakiland, it's like a whole 'nuther planet.
Posted by: .com   2003-10-3 8:14:41 AM  

#1  What a lovely country. Makes me just want to start singing Louis Armstrong ballads.

I see boys tortured
Sinful women stoned,
the terrorists attacks
and I say to myself
what a wonderful wooooorld.
Posted by: Tokyo Taro   2003-10-3 3:10:54 AM  

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