Muslim prejudice is foreign plot!| Because historically intra-Muslim interactions have dripped with the milk of human kindness. Really. The history books are full of such tales, along with the pyramids of human skulls and such. |
| Possibly. But America absolutely does have the capacity to carpet bomb -- or more selectively bomb key targets -- across the country at will. |
| Perhaps. But Pakistan most certainly needs someone's aid, and China doesn't appear to be stepping up with replacement bags o' cash. |
Reported in Mashriq the terrorism court judge who sentenced the self-confessed killer of Governor Taseer - Mumtaz Qadri - said that he was receiving death threats from many quarters. The judge Parvez Ali Shah fled to Saudi Arabia after that although the Registrar High Court clarified that he had gone on hajj.
| Went on hajj, inadvertently neglected to return to the loving grip of the takfiris of the Land of the pure? A wise decision -- he can return when Pakistan becomes sane, whenever that might be. |
| Thus demonstrating how Islam is the religion of love and peace it is so often attested to be. And those whose lives demonstrate otherwise dare not speak up, unless they are Ahmadis living in America. |
Daily Jinnah reported that Council for Islamic Ideology (CII) had issued a statement saying that Blasphemy Law was an Islamic law and was in accordance with Quran and Sunna. The CII is headed by Maulana Sherani of JUI and that has changed the personality of the CII making it more orthodox and less intellectual.
| Fainting with damn' praise, that. |
| Â Not one of whom is named here. Sadly, very wise. |
Writing in Jang Hamid Mir stated that after Bhutto had been arrested he passed on the chairmanship of the PPP to leftist leader Sheikh Rashid but it was soon felt that the feudal aristocracy of the PPP was not willing to accept him as leader whereupon Sheikh Rashid asked Bhutto to name his wife Nusrat Bhutto as the party chairperson. In 1982, Nusrat Bhutto suffered an ailment of lungs and had to be sent abroad which led to Benazir being appointed in her place and in this she was supported by her brother Mir Murtaza Bhutto.
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MFN is salt on national wounds!
Famous humanitarian leader of Jamaatud Dawa Hafiz Saeed told Jinnah that giving the MFN status to India will jeopardise national security and will be like sprinkling salt on the wounds suffered by the nation from India. It will now become difficult to resolve the issue of Kashmir.
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Khalil Ramday is judiciary's Hamid Gul!
Daily Mashriq quoted head of the Supreme Court Bar Association Asma Jahangir as saying that Justice Khalil Ramday had become the judiciary's Hamid Gul meaning that he did not leave when he should have.
Hamid GulThe nutty former head of Pakistain's ISI, now Godfather to Mullah Omar's Talibs and good buddy and consultant to al-Qaeda's high command...
was famous for retiring but yet keeping his finger in the pie of ISI intelligence. She said Ramday had retired and should have kept out of the bar politics.
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Maulana Rehman and Jemima
Quoted in Daily Jinnah Maulana Fazlur Rehman has lashed out at what he thinks is an un-Islamic 'walking together' by Imran Khan
... aka
Taliban Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five...
with his divorced wife Jemima Khan who joined Imran in Islamabad in his campaign against drone attacks in the Tribal Areas. He said, 'Islam forbids mixing with one's divorcee wife; and it seems as if Imran Khan's future is still linked to Jemima Khan'.
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Allah will make Imran rule!
| Allah hates Pakistan, then? |
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Hindu is our eternal enemy!
Quoted in Nawa-e-Waqt chief editor and owner Majid Nizami stated that all students should be told that Hindu was the permanent (azli) enemy of Pakistan whose birth too should be explained in the same terms. He added that even brainwashing should be used to convince the children.
| Goodness. |
| Insh'allah, guys, remember? All is as Allah wills, and thus far it looks like he isn't all that fond of y'all. |
Reported in Mashriq the Karachi Hindu Panchayat complained that Hindu girls were being forcibly converted by the Muslim clergy and wedded to Muslim boys. Each month 20 to 22 cases of this conversion were coming to light. One Hindu complained that his daughter was now wedded to a Muslim and was not allowed to meet her parents. Jamia Banuria, the largest seminary in Karachi denied that 200 girls converted in the last two months were converted forcibly.
| Brave, brave Lions of Islam, picking on girls. |
Daily Jang reported that PIA planes were falling victim to failing engines and smoke in the cabin but the latest menace was the presence of large sized rats in the planes. When the rats were sighted by the passengers the plane was delayed and attempts were made to remove them which delayed the hajj flights.
| Ick. A good decision. |
Reported in daily Pakistan nuclear scientist Dr Samar Mubarak Mand who is charged with producing gas from one of the world's largest coal deposits in Sindh said that his project will be completed in two months and that the production of electricity from it will be completed in 2013.
Dr AQ Khan no 'fish of aquarium'!
Quoted in Jinnah famous nuclear scientist and father of Pakistan Bomb Dr AQ Khan said that he was a fish of the river (daryai machchli) and would not be reduced to being a fish of the aquarium by taking part in politics. He said he did not want filth (gandh) thrown on him in politics. He told Nawa-e-Waqt that Imran Khan was ignorant about government and that Musharraf was the king of corruption.
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Wrong lawyers made judges!
Quoted in daily Pakistan the new elected president of the Supreme Court Bar Council Yaseen Azad said that many lawyers who used to raise pro-restoration slogans in the lawyers' movement had been unfairly made judges. He said after March 2009 judges' appointments had not been done on merit. He disagreed with the yardstick of promoting senior-most judges as members of the Supreme Court.
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Privatise the Steel Mills!
Reported in Express federal minister of production Anwar Ali Cheema stated that the Steel Mill was not possible to run by the government and should be privatised. He said 50 percent of the employees had to be fired, 2 billion rupees should be given as bailout, after which too there will be nothing certain. In the past the Musharraf government too tried to privatise the Mill but was foiled by a general running it, in tandem with the Supreme Court which declined to look into the economic theory of denationalisation.
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Elephants of Porus
Writing in Jang famous columnist and friend of Imran Khan, Haroon Rasheed stated that one PMLN leader who hated the Sharifs was asked by him why he still sat on the PMLN stage if he hated them so much. The said leader replied that he would take revenge by destroying them from within the party. Such elephants of Porus - meaning leaders who would trample the party from within - as Ahsan Iqbal, Ch Nisar Ali Khan, Pervez Rasheed and Khwaja Asif, did not surprise him as they started speaking against Imran Khan.