When Gilani offered to come to Aitzaz's houseReported in Jang a close friend of Aitzaz Ahsan and Gilani reported that in his presence Prime Minister Gilani rang Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan and asked him to defend him at the Supreme Court in a case of contempt. Aitzaz Ahsan politely refused and said he was senior to him in age and membership of the party but the PM thereafter said that he was visiting him at his house to convince him. After that Barrister Ahsan agreed to defend him at a fee of Rs 100.
| Is that as much as the cost of a cup of tea? |
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
politician and wife of ANP leader Wali Khan, Nasim Wali, was quoted by Daily Pakistain as saying that Pakistain was not created in the name of Islam but democracy.
| She hasn't read the writings of the Mr. Jinnah, esq., Father of Pakistan, it would seem. Granted, they are voluminous, as befits his first career. |
| That is certainly theory... |
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
once. Now Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa was better than no name (Frontier).
Haqqani should ask for reparations
Writing in Jang Nazir Naji stated that after the winding up of the memo case Husain Haqqani should go back to the Court and ask for reparations for the suffering caused to him. It would be unfair that lawyer Akram sheikh got millions sitting at home while Haqqani had to lose ambassadorship and suffer for no fault of his own.
| He made the mistake of picking the wrong side, and getting caught. In that part of the world, this is often enough a Darwinian error. |
Editor in Chief Khushnood Ali Khan wrote in Jinnah that the grand rally of Defence of Pakistain Council in Rawalpindi was made successful by three organizations. The main work of getting the people and collecting the religious leaders was done by Hafiz Saeed...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat...
of Jamaat-ud-Dawa
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
while Maulana Samiul Haq of JUI(S) was able to attract a lot of people to the arena. Above all there was the organising hand of Maulana Tayyab of the famous seminary of Panj-Pir in Swabi. Tayyab was the brother of the famous ISI officer Major (retd) Amir.
Meera finally chooses husband
After a long wait by her fans filmstar Meera was reported by Mashriq as consenting to marry an American-born Pak pilot named Naveed Parvez. She added that the wedding will take place in the following month (February).
'Memo' prepared by Generals Karamat and Mahmud Durrani!
Speaking to Mashriq ex-army chief Aslam Beg said that Mansoor Ijaz will have to prove at the Court that the memo that he said he got from Husain Haqqani was actually prepared by Haqqani, ex-army chief Jahangir Karamat and Major General (Retd) Durrani. He said if PM Gilani had been defended by Babar Awan he would have been quickly convicted.
| Just as well he wasn't, then. |
Daily Pakistain reported that Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan defending PM Gilani at Supreme Court protested at Justice (Retd) Ramday's decision to go public with opinion opposed to the PM. At which the other side replied by saying that Ramday had completed two years after retirement and Aitzaz should not get emotional about him. Ramday's brother as attorney general had written the letter to Swiss court to start proceedings against Zardari.
Farah Naz Ispahani denies allegation
Reported in Mashriq MNA Farahnaz Ispahani wife of Husain Haqqani, who decamped Pakistain and told British journalist Christina Lamb that she had left Pakistain because she was scared of being killed by the ISI, issued another statement that she had not said anything of the sort against the ISI. She said she had great respect for the Army.
Ramday's son gets a packet!
Revealed in Mashriq Punjab
government was said to have paid huge sums to two lawyers for defending the Punjab government in various cases. Khwaja Haris was paid Rs 35 lakh, and the son of the retired Supreme Court judge Khalilur Rehman Ramday a sum of Rs 10.5 lakh. His name was revealed as Mustafa Ramday who was a lawyer.A columnist makes predictions
Daily Jang had Hamid Mir reporting that Yasir Pirzada had predicted that in 2012 filmstar Meera will contract a real marriage that she will be in a position to own up to. Soon participants and anchors in TV talk shows will come armed with guns and that Musharraf will stop lecturing the world on Pakistain but focus on music while Ustad Hamid Ali Khan will accompany him. Hamid Mir's own prediction: Senate elections will be held in March and no top judge will succeed in becoming the president of Pakistain.
Pasha will go out as ambassador
Editor in Chief Khushnood Ali Khan wrote in Jinnah that when the army chief Kayani
... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI...
asked ISI chief Ahmad Shuja Pasha if he would like another extension he replied that he would like to retire after which it was planned that he would be sent out as ambassador. After him, either the Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
corps commander General Zaheerul Islam or Lahore corps commander Rashid Mehmood would be chosen by the Army Chief as ISI chief.
Nawaz Sharif worried about nuclear programme
Columnist Saleem Safi writing in Jang stated that when he told Nawaz Sharif that by bringing up the memo case at the Supreme Court he had put himself and other politicians in trouble to the advantage of the Army, Nawaz Sharif replied that he could swear that his intention behind the memo case was to save the nuclear programme of Pakistain. He was convinced that the real aim behind the move by Haqqani was to deprive Pakistain of its nuclear assets.
| Oh my. Pakistani logic is a very special thing, once it gets properly started. |
Columnist Khalid Masood Khan write in Jang that MNA Jamshed Dasti was returning from Luddan after doing condolence for Azeem Daultana when he heard that Hina Rabbani Khar had got his favourite PEPCO XEN Khalid Nazir transferred. He was already greatly upset by the rising influence in PPP of Hina but the removal of the XEN was the last straw. He announced his resignation from PPP amid rumours that he would join Imran Khan
... aka
Taliban Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five...
. He had already removed a number of XENs for not listening to his advice on the electricity charges.
Imran Khan is coming!
| Yes, yes. We'll believe it when we see it |
ISI chief supporting an Ahmadi
| I've got a beautiful bridge to sell, if you're interested. A family heirloom, chock full of olde worlde craftsmanship. |
Yasir Qasmi a Moses in the house of Pharaoh
Writing in Jang stated that well known columnist Yasir Pirzada was the son of famous Urdu columnist Ataul Haq Qasmi same way as the house of Pharaoh saw the birth of Moses. Yasir said that columnists had descended like a calamity on Pakistain and he was one of them. Yasir was known for his imitation of the style of well known columnists like Hasan Nisar, Haroon Rasheed and Irfan Siddiqi. He had just published collection of his widely read columns.