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India-Pakistan
Nuggets from the Urdu press
2011-12-18
Can a woman marry on her own?
Quoted in Express Ahle Hadith scholar and leader Ibtisam Elahi Zaheer said in Lahore that no woman could marry on her own without the consent of her guardian. A marriage solemnised only with the consent of the bride could be annulled by the guardian. Another religious scholar Abdul Qawi said that a woman was free to marry on her own accord and that any marriage contracted without her consent could be annulled.
 
Air Force dropped 10,000 bombs on Taliban
Daily Nawa-e-Waqt quoted Pakistan Air Force Chief as saying that Air Force had dropped 10,000 bombs on the Taliban in 5,500 sorties, which solved only 15 percent of the problem.
But the next 10,000 bombs will be more accurate, and now the plowing is done.
He said however that to win the hearts of the people growth and economic prosperity was essential.
 
Shah Mehmood and Senator Kerry
According to Hamid Mir in Jang Shah Mehmood Qureshi enjoyed good relations with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Senator John Kerry which will be used by Imran Khan to restart relations with the US after he comes to power.
By the time Mr. Khan comes to power, Clinton and Kerry will matter to no one except their immediate relations.
Imran to eliminate jihadis on Indian TV
Quoted in Nawa-e-Waqt Imran Khan told an Indian TV channel that he would not name organisations like Lashkar Taiba and Jaish Muhammad among the militant organisations he will eliminate after coming to power because the environment in Pakistan was polarised and people could get killed like the Governor of Punjab.
He also supported trade with India on which a number of religious and political elements raised serious objections, calling him 'bharat-nawaz'.
 
Balochistan smugglers' paradise
Daily Jang reported that in Balochistan everything from cigarettes, medicine, clothes to oil was smuggled and nothing came from Pakistan. Oil was being smuggled from Iran through secret tanks fitted into buses and trucks. Shila Bagh was the centre of this smuggling.
 
Haqqani soldier of fortune
Writing in Express Javed Chaudhry wrote that Husain Haqqani first got together with Jamaat Islami but when the Jamaat got in the way he left it and joined Nawaz Sharif in 1988 and was very intimate with him and was behind the rumour that Zardari was spending millions on horses in Islamabad while Benazir ruled. In 1992 he was made ambassador in Sri Lanka by Nawaz Sharif. After that Nawaz got in the way and Haqqani joined Benazir who put him in charge of information ministry and then sent him to House Building Corporation in 1995. When Musharraf came Haqqani tried to get back into Information ministry and even conspired to kick Javed Jabbar out of the ministry but was ousted by General Rashid Qureshi.
 
Shah Mehmood versus Zardari
Writing in Jang Hamid Mir wrote that during the CIA agent Raymond Davis crisis President Zardari was willing to treat the agent as a diplomat but Shah Mehmood Qureshi as foreign minister was not willing to allow it. After Zardari got the army Chief Kayani to agree that the agent be given diplomatic status even then Qureshi would not budge upon which he was made minister water & power but he refused and preferred to resign.
 
Reema's many loves
Reported in Nai Baat film star Reema was married to a very rich and talented Pakistani doctor in the US named Shahab who had started his career in Jamaat Islami.
Pass the word to the FBI!
Reema had many loves before she got married. The list included: Actror Shan, Actor Babar Ali, Cricketer Inzimanul Haq, Humayun Butt, Daulat (sic!) Khan, and Sindhi politician Jam Mashooq Ali. She was reported to have married also industrialist Saqib Saleem of Sialkot and a newspaper owner in Lahore.
 
Sardar Atique against trade with India
Azad Kashmir leader Sardar Atique told Express that starting free trade with India would be the murder of Pakistan's economy. His statement is considered significant as he is often thought to reflect the view of important institutions. 
"He didn't engage in retail thinking, but got his ideas in wholesale lots from the corner news shop."
MI also infected by al Qaeda agents
Reported in Nawa-e-Waqt  the Military Intelligence officers had attacked terrorists hiding in the Pir Chanbal hills near Pind Dadan Khan. The attack was secretly planned and only the MI insiders knew about it. But the terrorists were informed about their approach as a result of which they were captured and killed before the terrorists escaped. There was a great worry in MI that there could be enemy agents inside the organisation.
 Ya think?
'My king lives in Gujjar Khan!'
Famous columnist Haroon Rasheed wrote in Jang that although he supported kaptaan Imran Khan his king was not Imran Khan but someone else living in Gujjar Khan. He was referring to the saint Prof Rafeeq Akhtar jointly adopted by kaptaan and Haroon Rasheed.
 
Nation addicted to TV channels
According to a survey in Jang out of the total population of Pakistan 68 percent had access to TV. People of Pakistan looked to the TV channels in Urdu for information. Almost 95 percent watched the TV channels for news.
 
Zamzam performs miracle!
It's been a while since Zamzam water made the news...
Reported in daily Pakistan one named Khalid was given to a life of drinking and dancing but was made to drink a glass of Muslim holy water called zamzam. He drank it and went straight home where he kept in his bed for many days. When his pain ended he found that he was a changed man and did not feel like drinking wine and watching dance.
 
Ijaz Shah more powerful than ISI
Reported in Nawa-e-Waqt Gen (Retd) Ziauddin said that America was the magar-machch (crocodile) of the river and it was not wise to be unfriendly with America.
Chomp chomp!
He pointed to Ijaz Shah an ex-ISI officer who was home secretary in Lahore during crises and was named by Benazir as her probable killer. The paper reported that Ijaz Shah was more powerful than the ISI.
 
New BCCP boss in 'trubbel'
Reported in Nai Baat new Cricket Board chairman Zaka Ashraf had come under inquiry in the Agricultural Bank which he headed because his unfair appointments had caused a loss of Rs 18 crore to the Bank. He had appointed Farrukh Suhail the son of PPP minister Nazar Gondal as assistant vice president although the boy had done only BA. He had thus fvoured 33 people.
 
Haqqani and Afia Siddiqi
Columnist Javed Chaudhry wrote in Express that he was within earshot when foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that he had sent two million dollars to ambassador Husain Haqqani in Washington for the legal defence of Afia Siddiqui but this money simply disappeared and was mot accounted for. Haqqani was taken on board by PPP in 2004. Under President Zardari he was even poised to replace prime minister Gilani but after the Raymond Davis case his relations with the ISI had soured.
 
Fehmida Mirza as prime minister
Daily Nai Baat reported that in a national government to be formed ousting President Zardari and Gilani government a new caretaker system will be started with Naek as temporary president and Fehmida Mirza as prime minister while other political party members will be in the cabinet. It will last till the next election.
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