MD Tahir strikes again!According to the daily Pakistan, the great Pakistani lawyer and stormy petrel of the Lahore courts MD Tahir sent legal notices to religion minister Ijazul Haq and information minister Sheikh Rashid because they did not ban TV channels showing singer Shehzad Roy singing the song titled Saali tu maani nahin. He said the song would ruin the new generations. Already, 6-year olds were running around the streets singing the obscene song. He noted with satisfaction that PTV had already banned the song.
Halaku Khan, the other Asghar Khan
Writing in Khabrain, Shaukat Ali Shaukat revealed that he was a great friend of Asghar Khan, the police officer whose method of work was so cruel that he was called Halaku Khan (Killer Khan). He was a good friend of the columnist but because of his feudal style and notorious activity, the columnist had kept away from him. But Halaku Khan rang him recently and started crying over the phone. Now the columnist was sure that the great Halaku will be present at his funeral.
Only clerics can be members of parliament!
Quoted in the Nawa-e-Waqt, MMA leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman said in Sargodha that only clerics could be members of parliament because under the Constitution, only those who understood the fundamentals of Islam were qualified to be MNAs. He said that apart from the clergy, no one was familiar with the fundamentals of Islam in light of the Constitution.
Qaziâs one lakh âhead-sellersâ
Writing in the Nawa-e-Waqt, Sarerahe stated that Qazi Hussain Ahmad of the MMA had announced that he had prepared one lakh sarfaroosh (sellers of heads or willing to die) vigilantes who will storm Islamabad, with the result that there will be no Musharraf on the eve of 2007 election. Sarerahe said that most people donât complete what they promise because they announce it beforehand. There was no space between the speech and action of Qazi Hussain Ahmad. If there was speech, there was no action; and if there was action, then there should be no speech.
Quran burnt in Sheikhupura
As reported in the daily Pakistan, the people of Rehmanpura in Sheikhupura were greatly incensed at learning that one Seema had burnt two copies of the Quran. They were gathering in front of her house beating their chests and thinking of ways and means to burn the offending woman. The woman herself said that her second marriage was on the rocks because her husband was subjecting her to magic spells, but the police said that she was quite sane but could be following the advice of some dabba pir (fake saint) to gain advantage from Satan by burning the Quran. The people appealed to the government to hang the woman in Sheikhupura or face the consequences of damage to public property.
India sending terrorists into South Waziristan
Writing in the Jang, Hamid Mir stated that he was in the Waziristan region where he learned that Indian-trained agents were penetrating into Pakistan across the Durand Line. In Parachinar, Kurram Agency, people were openly saying that Indians were training and sending terrorists into Pakistan. Parachinar had been resolutely opposed to the Taliban and Al Qaeda. When in 2001 the Taliban and Al Qaeda agents came to Parachinar, they were arrested by the locals and handed over to the authorities. In all, 110 Arabs were arrested. The majority Parachinar tribe (Shia Turi) was opposed to Al Qaeda because it had high literacy rate. In the past year, more than a hundred thousand Afghan refugees had left the area, about which the Parachinar people were very happy. But they were greatly upset over the Indians in Afghanistan sending terrorists into Pakistan. They said there was one youth who was paying money ($200) for every rocket fired on the Pakistan army.
Umar Sheikh was British agent!
According to the daily Pakistan, a former British minister had revealed that Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was involved in the killing of American journalist Daniel Pearl in Karachi, was an agent trained by the British Intelligence Agencies. He was not being sentenced to death in Pakistan because the British intelligence agencies were opposed to it. He said that British agencies trained and sent 200 fighters to Kosovo with the help of an extremist organisation, Al Muhajiroun. He said that even 9/11 terrorists had been in touch with the CIA and British intelligence.
Culture minister promotes dance
Sarerahe wrote in the Nawa-e-Waqt that federal culture minister Muhammad Ali Durrani had sent instructions to universities that they should start courses in music and dance. It said that no one could accuse Mr Durrani of hypocrisy because if he dances himself, he is honestly asking everyone else to dance too. Pakistan had become self-sufficient in science; now it was time to catch up with dancing too.
A dream of Jews
Writing in the Jang, Abdul Qadir Hassan reproduced a dream from the book of Humera Maududi, daughter of the founder of Jamaat Islami. A Pakistani pilot dreamt that Makka and Madina had all been laid waste and the Prophet PBUH was saying his prayer outside the wasteland that was once Hijaz. The dreamer saw a staircase going underground. He went down and saw Jews clad in jangiya (loin cloth) with daggers in their hands cutting human bodies into small portions. Outside, the Prophet said: âDonât worry, this meat will not sell.â Maulana Maududi, interpreting the dream, said that the future will see conflict between Jews and Muslims but the air force will play an important part in this war.