'Sasti Roti' lost Punjab Rs 3.64 billion Reported in Nawa-e-Waqt cheap bread scheme called Sasti Roti was run at the cost of billions of rupees but according to an audit report there was a net loss of Rs 3.64 billion due to irregularities.
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Afaq Ahmad attacks MQM
Daily Express reported that MQM (Muhajir) released from jail in Karachi after many years was unrepentant and had gone on the attack against Altaf Hussain. He said the 25 seats of MQM at the National assembly were gained at gunpoint. He also revived the accusation that the MQM had plans to separate Karachi from Pakistan Muhajir Province.
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Resume Nato supply, lose government!
Quoted in Jinnah retired ISI Brigadier Muhammad Yusuf said that if Nato supplies are resumed the PPP government will fall. He said Haqqani network was not active in Mohmand Agency and America was changing its views on a daily basis. It was foolish to trust America whose demands cannot be met.
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Hindu girls being Islamised in Sindh
Daily Mashriq reported that Hindu girls in Sindh were being kidnapped by Muslims and converted to Islam before wedding. The Hindus said they were a poor minority and could do nothing to stop the Muslims from carrying away their children. This statement was actually made by MNA Khattu Mal at the National Assembly.
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Madrassas are castles of Islam
Daily Jinnah reported various clerical leaders as condemning federal interior minister Rehman Malik's negative comment about madrassas and asserted that the madrassas were castles of Islam and anyone colliding with them would be smashed to pieces. They said that the PPP government was extending the policies of Musharraf and will be opposed.
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Kashmiris protecting our throat
Leader of Jamaat Islami Munawwar Hasan was quoted in Nawa-e-Waqt as saying that the Kashmiris were not fighting for their independence abut actually protecting the jugular vein (shah-rag) of Pakistan from being slit by India. He said that the war to liberate Kashmir must go and was a duty of Pakistan.
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Al Qaeda rising again in Fata
Daily Mashriq reported that Al Qaeda was once again reorganising its subordinate cadres among the Taliban in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan, as opposed to one report in London Guardian that Al Qaeda was finished in Pakistan. According to German media, Abu Yahya who might be the next leader after Osama had been assigned the task.
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Women die to maintain 'ghairat'
Daily Nawa-e-Waqt reported that in the last 9 months 675 women had died at the hands of men killing in the name of honour (ghairat). Out of the murdered women, 71 were younger than 18 years. Nineteen women were killed by their sons, 40 were killed by their fathers, and 169 were killed by their husbands.
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Rana Sanaullah blamed for 'loot-maar'
Daily Pakistan quoted Churched Mahmud Kasur after 25 thousand chairs were carried away by fans of Tehreek Insaf by its followers in Kasur, his constituency. Kasur who has joined Insaf said that theft of chairs was organised by the Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah. The police stood aside and did not stop the people from carrying off the chairs on their heads. The chairs were worth rupees one crore. JUI chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman was quoted by Express as saying Tehreek Insaf was being backed by secret agencies.
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Chairs on hire with guarantees
Daily Mashriq reported that after the famous chair theft at Kasur the suppliers of chairs for Tehreek Inset's next rally in Karachi were most reluctant to provide chairs without being guaranteed cost if the Karachi supporters of Insaf also decided to take the chairs away as mementos. The chairs in Karachi were estimated to number 80,000.
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Don't lean against graves
Famous religious scholar Ghulam Outbidding told express that it was wrong while in graveyard to lean against gravestones as the dead will feel insulted by this. He said it was okay to kiss the grave of the parents but doing these on women's graves was not okay. He said women should not be allowed into graveyards.
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Lal Masjid being rebuilt
Famous jihadi publication Zarb-e-Momin reported that Lal Masjid cleric Maulana Aziz was about to rebuild Jamia Hafza after it was destroyed in 2007 even though the government had not allowed its rebuilding by reason of it being illegally constructed in the first place. The 90 madrassas in Islamabad are mostly illegal.
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Secret agency rumours about Zardari
Writing in daily Jang Hamid Mir stated that one minister in the PPP cabinet who gets into all governments at the behest of secret agencies told him that Zardari will not return from Dubai and will in fact flee from there to London. It proved that the secret agency behind him was clueless about Zardari and strength of his character.
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Nawaz siding with erstwhile enemy
Columnist Hamid Mir wrote in Jang that Nawaz Sharif was once against the establishment but now in order to get rid of Zardari he was standing in the same line as the agencies. The Supreme Court had told the PPP government not to give extensions to any government employees but the government did not listen and was now paying for it.
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Hindus flee Pakistan
Daily Nawa-e-Waqt reported that 151 Pakistani Hindus had fled into India and asked to be absorbed because their lives in Pakistan were endangered. A court in Gujarat has asked the Indian foreign office to confirm whether the Hindus were really in danger in Pakistan.
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Kidnappers of Shahbaz Taseer arrested
Punjab law minister Rana Sanaullah told Mashriq that terrorists who kidnapped Shahbaz Taseer the son of the late governor Punjab had been arrested. The same terrorists had also kidnapped the American aid worker Weinstein whom Al Qaeda claimed to have abducted from Lahore. The job was done by Punjabi Taliban working for Al Qaeda but both the kidnapped persons were being held on the border with Afghanistan.
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When police beat Javed Hashmi with 'danda'
Columnist Hamid Mir wrote in Jang that he recalled the days when during Tehreek Nijat of Nawaz Sharif in 1996, the police put Javed Hashmi on the road at Regal Chowk in Lahore and beat him with sticks. When Hamid Mir tried to save himself he too received a few blows. When Musharraf took over, Nawaz Sharif gave the party over to Hashmi and fled to Saudi Arabia. Hashmi got together with Saad Rafiq and Parvez Rashid who was thrashed by Col Nadiem Ijaz. The tragedy was that PMLN had lost Javed Hashmi but for Imran the challenge was how to keep Hashmi under control.
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Plot of kidnapping prominent children
Daily Pakistan reported that a plot to kidnap the children of prominent citizen like Riaz Malik, Mian Mansha, and Hashwani were to be kidnapped for ransom by the terrorists who are short of cash. Five terrorists arrested from Rawalpindi confessed that they were moving to kidnap the children. The terrorists were arrested at the pointation of the terrorists of Shahbaz Taseer arrested earlier. They planned to ask for Rs one billion for each person abducted.