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| India-Pakistan |
| Nuggets from the Urdu press |
| 2011-12-11 |
| Cricketers weep on conviction According to daily Pakistan three cricketers - Salman Butt, Muhammad Asif, Muhammad Amir - started weeping when the jury at a London court found them guilty of cheating in the game for money. Asif was heard saying to Butt, 'Tum nay marwa diya' (You are to blame.) Â Hafiz Saeed now after Indian Hyderabad World famous man of God Hafiz Saeed told daily Pakistan that Kashmir will soon be liberated from the tyranny of India but he would not rest till he had made Hyderabad Deccan in the south of India join Pakistan. He said that the world saw the Soviet Union go to pieces and it will soon see America meet the same fate. And this will happen because of jihad. Â Allah, give us just one leader! World-famous scientist Dr AQ Khan was quoted by daily Pakistan as saying that Allah should grant only one great leader to Pakistan who would get the nation released from the slavery of America. He said nuclear power was not good for Pakistan because it would expensive; electricity should be made from hydel resources. Â Hindu doctors killed in Shikarpur Daily Mashriq reported that incidence of rape of Hindu women due to rise of religion in Sindh Hyderabad city staged protests on the murder of Hindu doctors in Shikarpur. The protests were conducted by nationalist Sindhis who don't regard Hindus as aliens but that the rising tide of extremist religion in Sindh is now negating their progressive influence. Â India is not most favoured! Daily Pakistan reported religious and other leaders as saying that instead of giving India the Most Favoured Nation status Pakistan should declare India as a terrorist state. The MFN declaration by Pakistan had betrayed the Kashmiri as well as the Pakistani nation. Indian Kashmiri leader Ali Gilani sent word that Pakistani leaders were taking decisions against their own people. Â Nusrat Bhutto and Bhutto Daily Mashriq quoted Abdur Razzaq Soomro as saying that Bhutto's wife Nusrat Bhutto was not responsible for getting Bhutto and Iskander Mirza together. Bhutto had married Amir Begum at the age of 13. When Nusrat Bhutto started visiting Larkana she wore a black burqa. Murtaza Bhutto was in Syria when General Asif Nawaz sent word to him that he should return and take part in elections. Benazir did not like this. Nusrat Bhutto met Bhutto at a bank where Sir Shahnawaz introduced them. Â Pakistanis in Indian jails without trial According to daily Pakistan supreme court of India had taken notice of the fact that 250 Pakistanis were languishing in India jails without trial. He said most of them were being kept there without registration of any case of offence by them. Â Imran owns land in Mian Channu! Disclosed by Jinnah Imran Khan owned 530 kanals of land in Mian Channu outside Lahore which is worth Rs 50 thousand only. According to his 2007 declaration he also owns 30 kanals in Islamabad (Tilkhar). According to Nawa-e-Waqt Imran Khan put a very low price on assets that were worth crores of rupees. Â Doctors strike against lawyers According to Mashriq doctors of Sheikh Zaid Hospital struck work against what they called wukla-gardi (lawyers' hooliganism) after an incident at the hospital had lawyers becoming violent. The protest asked commissioner Lahore to immediately drop the cases registered against the doctors by the wukla persons. Â Imran will prefer China Quoted in daily Nawa-e-Waqt Imran Khan said that if he came to power in the country he would most favour closer relations with China. He called Hilary Clinton 'Chachi Clinton' and pledged that he will rescue a scattered Pakistan. He also informed that he had bought land with Jemima's money but Jemima had 'forgiven' him the loan after divorce. Â Eunuchs should have right to vote! Reported in Mashriq the Supreme Court once again directed the ID card authority NADRA to register the heejra community as such on ID cards so that they can have a vote. Perhaps as response, the police in Kamalia in Punjab attacked a community of gay eunuchs on charges of immorality and thrashed them handsomely. Â Allama Iqbal would have committed suicide! Quoted in Jinnah wife of the son of Allama Iqbal Nasira Javid Iqbal stated in Lahore that had the philosopher of Pakistan Allama Iqbal been alive today he would have committed suicide out of shame. She said that clerics had opposed Pakistan, while after 1947, Pakistan had failed to educate its population. Â Army not consulted on MFN Quoted in daily Pakistan Sheikh Rashid said that Pak Army was not consulted before giving the go ahead to MFN status to India. He said that MFN would destroy Pakistan's economy and make Pakistan a slave to India in addition to America. Â Karachi police stations without SHOs Reported in Jinnah fully 15 police stations in Karachi were without top officers called SHOs. Police sources said that the delay was owed to the cleansing operation against sifarishi officers and that the new officers were being put through a clean process. Â Tehreek Taliban condemns Imran According to Express Tehreek Taliban Pakistan (TTP) had declared that Imran Khan was a slave of America and Europe. The TTP said that the Taliban were under no illusion that Imran Khan was on their side. Imran Khan said in Jang that the statement from the Taliban was prompted by his opponents who were afraid of losing seats to him. Daily Pakistan reported Tehreek Insaf as saying that those guilty of killing Benazir were now getting the Taliban to issue statements against Imran. Â Shah Mehmood on India Quoted by Jinnah ex-foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi while discussing the MFN status remarked that India was in the habit of setting up the agenda for discussion in the light of its own interest. Ex-Foreign Secretary Akram Zaki said Pakistan had bent the knee to India on the dictation of America. Â Pakistan is doomed after MFN Daily Pakistan reported that political leaders were of the opinion that after the grant of MFN to India Pakistan was doomed. India had no friends in the world but America wanted it to become thanedar. Bharat will remain our enemy. They said that Pakistan's economy will be destroyed after the MFN. Giving MFN to India was also treacherous to Kashmiris. The lawyers were of the opinion that MFN could not be granted before getting India to give up Kashmir. Â Pak 'kabaddi' manager thrashed Reported in Jang while the players of kabaddi were engaged in international tournament in Amritsar India, the manager of the Pakistani team was caught hold of by the American kabaddi team and thrashed. Akhtar Mian was taken into a bathroom and given a proper hiding. After much hatha-pai he was successful finally to save his life by running away. Â Mirza ate up Zardari's sugar mills! Eeported in Mashriq the real cause of the split between Zulfiqar Mirza and Zardari was that Mirza had been given some sugar mills for safekeeping during Zardari's absence. After his return Zardari asked Mirza to return his personally set up sugar mills and some land, Mirza refused to do so and decided to raise the standard of revolt from. It was in hopes of getting his assets back that Zardari had appointed Mirza as home minister and his wife as speaker of National Assembly. |
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