ISI chief to go in MarchDaily Nawa-e-Waqt reported that ISI chief General Pasha was expected to finish his second tenure in office on 18 March 2012 and will go home.
| Just like Cincinnatus and former president George Washington. Or perhaps more like dear Lt-General Hamid Gul. |
Major general Naushad and corps commander Peshawar General Khalid Rabbani were being considered for the ISI top job.
| Does anyone know anything about these honourable gentlemen? |
Writing in Jang Haroon Rasheed stated that when the 'tsunami' of Imran Khan
... aka
Taliban Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer...
began in Lahore it was hoped that the party would win 30-40 seats - because the PMLN was still a big party - but afterwards this estimate went up to 70 seats. After the Karachi rally and the one coming on 23 Match, Insaf will win a hundred seats.
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Khalid Kharal attacks PPP
Old PPP veteran leader Khalid Kharal told Mashriq that the PPP had lost vision and was corrupt compared to the old leadership. He said his wife too had nothing to do with the PPP and that he welcomed the joining of Insaf party by Shahnawaz Cheema and Khwaja Muhammad Saleh.
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Marvi Memon leftover of Imran Khan
According to Haroon Rasheed in Jang old PMLQ firebrand Marvi Memon wanted to announce her entry into Insaf party but Shah
Mehmood WormtongueQureshi did not allow her to make the announcement and later did not let her come to the mike and speak. She was politically savvy and hardworking but was emotional and self-centred. She wanted Imran Khan to announce her entry and then put her in charge of information, which Imran Khan denied her. After that she turned away from Insaf. She was picked up by PMLN which was like eating the leftovers of Imran Khan.
| Â How unkind to say so. But apparently she has plenty of company... |
World famous politician Sheikh Rasheed stated in Express that prime minister Gilani was used to eating up the income of the tombs and was therefore not fit to be prime minister. Roedad Khan said the Supreme Court disappointed him by giving the PPP the sixth option while the country was sinking. Hasan Nisar said that Husain Haqqani was loyal to no one.
| Â They talk about each other like a bunch of high school girls |
Writing in Jang columnist Hamid Mir stated that when he said that the worst kind of democracy was better the best kind of dictatorship, the Army would get offended with him; and when he said that the corruption by the government was pushing Pakistan to the brink of disaster then he was considered an enemy of democracy.
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Court will save generals from dismissal
Famous lawyer Akram Sheikh told Express that if the prime minister used his powers to dismiss the generals Kayani
... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI...
and Pasha the Supreme Court will overturn the order and keep them in their posts.
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'Pakistan is calling me!'
Quoted in Mashriq
Pervez PervMusharraf
... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ...
in Dubai announced that he was going back to Pakistan because Pakistan was calling him. He said Pakistan needed alternative leadership which he would provide. In Pakistan, however, courts had ordered his arrest as he landed in the country amid reports that he was fast losing support among his followers after hearing that he was coming back. According to Nawa-e-Waqt (16 Jan 2012) Musharraf said he was willing to join Insaf party but was puzzled why Imran was not in favour of letting him join.
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Second judge ducks the Khosa case
Reported in Mashriq after seeing that one judge of the High Court had excused himself from hearing the case of actress Sapna's disappearance as wife of the powerful Dost Muhammad Khosa son of Punjab PMNLN leader Zulfiqar Khan Khosa, another High Court judge Sheikh Najmul Hasan too had excused himself from hearing the case. Dost Khosa claimed that he had divorced his wife before she disappeared and he was looking for her.
| Why would he look for her if he'd divorced her? Is that now not the responsibility of her father? |
 Famous PPP leader from Muzaffargarh Jamshed Dasti was reported by daily Pakistan as saying that he was making ready to announce his joining the Insaf Party because the PPP high command had handed over the control of everything (siah-o-safed) in Muzaffargarh to someone else which proved that the PPP favoured the feudals only. Shah Mehmood played a role in getting Dasti to rise in revolt. (Dasti later agreed to stay with the PPP.)
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Dr AQ Khan attacks Imran Khan
| Â "You disgrace my family name, you upstart name-thief!" |
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Eunuchs freed in seduction case
| Â Technically they can't, you see, no matter how real it might seem to all parties involved |
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Astrologers go after Christian graves
Reported in Jinnah astrologers practising magic in Lahore were obsessed with the sensitive organs and bones of men and were focusing on the graves of the Christians. Christian graveyards were being attacked and graves opened to steal the sexual organs of men to mix in potions made for enhancing power among Muslim men.
| How great must the enhancing need be, to use not the bits of, say, a freshly slaughtered bull or tiger, but the well-rotted parts of a centuries-ago subdued people? |
Reported in Jinnah lawyer Asma Jahangir stated that the judiciary was once again being seen as siding with the Army against the elected government which had happened in the past too. She said the government was being pushed into a dead alley with the street banner saying 'justice'. She said establishment tweaked results of all elections and had produced a whole crop of politicians.
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Akram Sheikh, all-round lawyer
Quoted in Mashriq world famous lawyer Akram Sheikh
| Perhaps the writer means that Mr Sheikh, esq. is world famous within certain select circles, not among the general public like us... |
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Aitzaz to replace Gilani?
Daily Mashriq quoted a daily in the UK Times as saying that the PPP was considering getting rid of prime minister Gilani and appointing Aitzaz Ahsan in his place. This was to be done to ease the pressure on President Zardari who was assigning Aitzaz to engage the judiciary in secret negotiations.
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Chehlum terrorists caught in KarachiÂ
| Hurrah! |
... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
terrorist gang was caught by the police before it blew up the Shia procession in Karachi on the night of chehlum (40th day) of Imam Husain's martyrdom together with 60 kilos of explosive matter, 4 suicide jackets and a rocket launcher. But the killings could not be stopped in Rahimyar Khan - the home town of the terrorist leader Malik Ishaq recently freed from a Lahore prison - where the procession was attacked killing 20 people. In Basra in Iraq the death tool, was above 50.
| Oh nooooos -- their evil ones are more evil than ours! However will we be able to face our fathers' wrathful disappointment? |