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Separate Muslim currency
Quoted in daily Jinnah leader of Jamaatud Dawa Hafiz Said stated that news about removing blasphemous cartoons from the Facebook and apology from the up-loader were all fibs. The only way to fight the cartoons was for the Muslim rulers to get together and separate their economic system from the West, have their own currency and prepare a common defensive system.
Maulvi Shehbaz and ‘maal banana’
Columnist Amir Hamza writing in Islamist publication Jarrar stated that Shehbaz Sharif was talking like a Maulvi and not like a Chief Minister when he warns of a bloody revolution, but people knew andar khatay (inside) that his government was busy making maal (money) in the old style.
After ‘water war’, the ‘fish war’
Reported in Daily Express Indian fish Goncha had attacked Pakistan and entered its rivers from the sea. Goncha was a cruel variety that ate other fish but it was particularly targeting the Pakistani fish, Kalbans and Palla whose two generations were now at risk. The Fisheries Department warned that if counter-measures were not taken the attack from the Indian fish, Pakistani fish will come to and end.
PM in the driving seat
Columnist Nazir Naji wrote in Jang that Prime Minister Gilani landed in Hunza on a copter but when he was being driven to the Attabad ‘accidental’ lake he insisted on driving the vehicle. He was told that in those heights only the locals could drive safely but he insisted on driving. Naji quipped that only the President could stop him.
Gilani and Leghari
Writing in Jang Nazir Naji stated that although both had feudal background Farooq Leghari and Yousaf Raza Gilani were of different temperaments. (Benazir wanted Waseem Sajjad as her president; Zardari wanted Leghari and prevailed.) Gilani knows that if he adopted LeghariÂ’s ways he would not survive.
Madrassa Haqqania didnÂ’t kill Benazir!
Reported in daily Islam a spokesman of Madrassa Haqqania Akora Khattak stated that the FIA ‘finding’ - that the killers of Benazir had belonged to the madrassa in Nowshehra and had plotted to kill her there - was wrong and a conspiracy to conceal her real killers. He said the UN report had not charged the madrassa in her assassination in 2007.
Hamid Mir victimised by Voice Cloning
Famous Pakistani TV anchor Hamid Mir wrote in Jang that he was being accused of getting an ex-ISI agent Khalid Khwaja killed by the Taliban on the basis of a taped telephone conversation that was made by the Americans with a software called Voice Cloning sold by an American Company Natural Voices which can be bought for a few hundred dollars. But actual cloning through it was a very difficult art and not within reach of everyone. He said in Pakistan artist Nisar Butt could easily copy anyoneÂ’s voice.
Two Pakistanis paid Faisal Shahzad
Reported in Jang out of the four Pakistanis arrested in Pakistan for their connection with the bomber Faisal Shahzad in the US, two proudly accepted that they had given money to him through ‘havala’. They however insisted that they did not know for what purpose the money was being given.
Judges and talk of war
Quoting leading lawyer Hamid Khan, daily Pakistan stated that judges should not make public announcements of war against the executive signalling that they were ready for this war. He said attempts were being made to stage a war between the judiciary and the executive. Justice (Retd) Tariq Mehmood abstained from commenting on the statement of the Chief Justice of Lahore High Court that he and his fellow judges were ready for a war with the PPP government.
Shami and Chief Justice
Daily Jinnah revealed that at a seminar held in Lahore, senior journalist Mujibur Rehman Shami stated that he respected the judiciary and the army but the judiciary should pay more attention to the courts and let the system run; and not give threatening statements about the skies falling down. He was referring to an earlier statement of the Chief Justice of Pakistan that skies may fall but justice will be done.
To the rescue of ‘khusras’
Daily Jinnah reported that two European diplomats had reached Peshawar to rescue the two men (one of them khusra) alleged to have married each other. An asylum in Europe for them was being planned through an international conspiracy. The effort was to save the two men (?) from being punished by the brave police of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa who have taken training for months to fight the Taliban but are more conscientiously making great sacrifices to apprehend khusras before they destroy the manhood of the Pakhtun ANP government.
Governor Taseer as tissue paper
Quoted in Nawa-e-Waqt Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said that Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer after the passage of the 18th Amendment was like tissue paper which can be used and thrown away. He said the charges the Governor had levelled about the number of bullet-proof cars with the chief minister were false.
Lal Masjid madrassa in DG Khan under attack
Reported in Nawa-e-Waqt the police attacked a girlsÂ’ madrassa in Rajanpur in DG Khan and arrested a boy from there. The girlsÂ’ madrassa is funded by the Lal Masjid chief of Islamabad Maulana Abdul Aziz who has named it after his father Abdullah Ghazi killed in Islamabad some years ago.
Another Mahabharata will destroy India!
Quoted in Nawa-e-Waqt Majeed Nizami said that a Mahabharata was in store for India when the untouchables and the Muslims will unite to finish off the Brahmans. This would be like IndiaÂ’s plot to separate East Pakistan through Mukti Bahini. Pakistan will use the untouchables of India to bring about the end of India.
Arrested for marrying ‘khusra’
According to Jang the police swooped down on a man in Peshawar accused of marrying a khusra (transvestite). The expensively trained police most conscientiously acted like commandos and captured Malik Iqbal, the bridegroom, his bride, Kashif alias Rani and 45 baratis (invitees to the wedding). The arrested party was brought to the magistrate under heavy guard to give the citizens a sense of security under attack from the Taliban. The police, while getting ready to save the population from the Taliban, were overjoyed to know that the khusra and his bridegroom could be given a life sentence.
Army officer behind Faisal Shahzad
Reported in Jang intelligence agencies swooped down on one Major Adnan of the Signals Corps for helping terrorist Faisal Shahzad plan his bombing of Times Square in New York. His younger brother Qamar Ejaz, a software expert, was also picked up. They were picked up after the arrest of contacts of Shahzad Salman Ashraf and Raza Ahmad whose parents are in catering business in Islamabad. One Hanbal Akhtar, a graphic designer, was picked up from Rawalpindi. Sources said the men are pure (mutaqi) Muslims. Major Adnan learned the Quran by heart after joining the army and his brother is learning the Quran at Faisal Mosque in Islamabad.
18th Amendment is right!
Well-known lawyer Athar Minallah wrote in Express that the Article 174-A in the 18th Amendment allowed an immaculate method of induction of judges compared to the old Article 193 under which everyone from Chief Justice of the provincial high court, the governor of the province and chief minister were involved together with law ministry in Islamabad. On the other hand, the new law set up a Judicial Commission comprising Chief Justice of Pakistan, two judges of the Supreme Court, one retired judge of the Supreme Court selected by the Chief Justice, Law Minister, Attorney General. Those selected by the Commission will then go to a parliamentary committee of eight, four each from treasury and opposition benches, deciding on the basis of three-fourths majority.