Prime minister and the stinking ladiesFamous historian Dr Safdar Mehmood wrote in Jang that Pakistan’s lady prime minister, after coming to power, ordered that she would go to offer umra with a planeload of her lady party loyalists. A big party landed in Saudi Arabia but when the ladies along with the prime minister were separated and made to pray in close proximity to each other in front of the mausoleum of the Prophet (pbuh) in Madina the prime minister called the protocol officer and told him to get her out of the place because ‘she could not stand the stink of the ladies.’
Palmist says Iran invasion is on
According to Khabrain Lahore’s famous palmist Majeed Salimi predicted that America will invade Iran in 2006 and that President Musharraf would remain safe. He said that the government will make a deal with the PPP and that there was ‘foreign hand’ involved in the Nishtar Park blast in Karachi. And that Nawaz Sharif will not return to Pakistan.
Dead men who stink
Humour columnist Ataul Haq Qasimi in Jang referred to a man who was recently reported as having announced his own death in Qasur. Daud son of Jani got onto a mosque loudspeaker and informed the people that he had died at the age of 45 and would be buried by one Mistri Feroz after namaz janaza. When people gathered outside the mosque the man fled after scaling the back wall of the mosque. Qasimi wondered that while a living man was announcing his death, those literary persons who had actually died in the brain were scared of announcing their deaths. They were actually cadavers of Urdu literature who had started stinking.
Murtaza feared Benazir will kill her!
Quoted by Sunday Express veteran politician Mumtaz Bhutto stated that Benazir Bhutto accused him of inviting Murtaza Bhutto back to Pakistan. He told her that he was in fact opposed to Murtaza coming back when she was in power but could not get him to agree not to return. She accused him of getting Murtaza back in Pakistan to make the brother fight his sister. Mumtaz said he had asked Murtaza to meet his sister but he said that she was too dangerous (khatarnak aurat) who would kill him if he went near her.
Proud son who stabbed German editor
Daily Pakistan reported in the following way the incident of a Pakistani boy stabbing the editor of Die Welt publication in Germany for printing objectionable material against the Holy Prophet (pbuh): the proud self-respecting son of Wazirabad paid the price of his enslavement to the Holy Prophet (pbuh) when he stabbed the German editor of Die Welt and was caught and sent to jail. He had gone to Germany for higher education and now Europeans were investigating his family background in Wazirabad.
Bad law against wedding meals
Columnist Nazeer Naji wrote in Jang that he was personally against spending heavily on weddings but the law against wedding meals was a bad law since it actually widened the gulf between the haves and the have-nots, forcing them to do illegal things and practice hypocrisy to avoid being nabbed by the police. On the other hand the police were tough on the poor but blind to the grand weddings of the rich. Also the law was against the economy.
Zardari killed Murtaza!
Daily Express magazine quoted Mumtaz Bhutto as saying that only Asif Zardari could have ordered the killing of Murtaza Bhutto. He was not killed in an encounter with the police; he was arrested and then taken to a predetermined place and shot dead. Benazir could kill her sister because she was a cruel woman who could drag her mother out of the house of her son and keep her like a prisoner in her old age. No one knew if Nusrat Bhutto was alive or not in the custody of her daughter.
Sherry can be ‘Sherni’
Sarerahe stated in Nawa-e-Waqt that everyone was changing their media managers. Ms Bhutto changed her appointee Taj Haider for Sherry Rehman who was Sherry but could become Sherni for the media. Nawaz Sharif had got rid of loud-mouthed Siddiqul Farooq for a more polished Ahsan Iqbal. Sheikh Rashid had lost his information portfolio because he had displeased both prime minister Shaukat Aziz and PML chief Chaudhry Shujaat – and perhaps also Punjab governor General Khalid Maqbul.
Our villain, their hero
Writing in Jang Javed Chaudhry stated that in 1971 a Pakistani pilot, Rashid Minhas, was about to take off in his fighter plane when his Bengali instructor Motiur Rehman jumped in and gave chloroform to him to make him unconscious. After that Motiur Rehman flew close to the ground to avoid the radar and tried to take the plane to India, but Rashid woke up and pulled the plane down and crashed it, thus ‘killing’ the instructor and ‘martyring’ himself. When Bangladesh prime minister Khalida Zia visited Pakistan this year she demanded the remains of Motiur Rehman as he was one of the seven recipients of Bangladesh’s highest bravery award. Rashid Minhas was posthumously given Pakistan’s highest bravery award.