DR AQ Khan turns pro-ImranPakistain's father of the nuclear bomb Dr AQ Khan told Mashriq that Zardari was a PhD in politics but he should learn politics of reconciliation from Imran Khan. Nawaz Sharif learned nothing from his decade of exile and when he got ready to return to Pakistain he left his brains abroad. He said PPP, ANP, N-League and JUIF were all opportunists. He said he had not yet decided to join Imran Khan. (He later did?)
Taliban spent 2 crore on Bannu jailbreak
Daily Mashriq reported that the Taliban had admitted that they spent Rs 2 crore
| According to this handy on-line converter, 2 crore equals US $0.359 million, or as we would say $359,000, which is a lot of money. Oops - my apologies, that was using Indian rupees. In Pakistani rupees it equals $213,000, which is somewhat less. |
AQ Khan on Nawaz Sharif's corruption
AQ Khan wrote in Jang that
Nawaz Sharif... 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...
's yellow cabs scam cost the banks $500 million, of which he pocketed about $60 million. His Lahore/Islamabad Motorway scam was worth $160 million. He had got loans written off worth $140 million. He pocketed $60 million as refund for the export of sugar. He siphoned off $58 million in the purchase of wheat from the US and Canada. There may be many more such instances, he wrote, which have not been reported.
Imran Khan upbraids courts
Quoted in Mashriq Imran Khan
... aka
Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight...
said that he was not satisfied with the working of the Supreme Court and he felt that it had come under pressure. He said the people too were disappointed. He said if the government was made to stay in office a few months more Pakistain would be overtaken by a storm of high prices and unemployment. He said his party will change the fortunes of the country.
| He works by the Poof Method, you know. He says, "Poof!" and it is so. |
Daily Jinnah reported that the father in law of the foreign minister Mrs Khar, Arif Gulzar, husband Feroz Gulzar, and brother in law Asad Gulzar had cases of default against them which were taken on Galaxy Textile Mill but were written off.
| I think I'm distantly related to the family, too: second cousins four times removed through my paternal great-aunt. Family lore says that's where we got our eyebrows. |
| What about your high cheekbones? |
| Those came from the other Indian continent...and in the end I couldn't get any money for having them, darn it. But the above story makes me hope for some profit from the eyebrows. |
Daily Nawa-e-Waqt editorialised that Nawaz Sharif while in Gyari sector of Siachen where Pak troops were buried by an avalanche recommended that Pakistain should unilaterally come down from the 'disputed' glacier so that Pakistain could cut down on expenses and spend the money on the poor masses. But Nawaz Sharif should know that Siachen was not disputed but a part of Azad Kashmire which is inside Pakistain and that India had occupied it.
| Allah recreates history at his whim as well as the entire universe, which is how we know the above is true. |
Writing in Jang father of Pak nuclear bomb Dr AQ Khan stated that when Benazir became prime minister in late 1988 after the death of Gen Ziaul Haq, she immediately posted 26,000 hardcore PPP activists on important positions, including those in the nationalised banks. She and Zardari gouged bank loans and skimmed off Rs 410 million, with which they bought majority shares in three sugar mills. Zardari managed to receive Rs40 million through his crony, the fake doctor Usman Farooqi, managing director of Pakistain Steel Mills.
Nawaz Sharif stands firm on Siachen!
Daily Express quoted Nawaz Sharif as saying that despite criticism of his statement that Pak troops should withdraw from Siachen unilaterally he still believed that there would be no harm if Pakistain called down its troops without India first agreeing to withdraw simultaneously (pehlay fauj bulanay mein koi qabahat nahim).
Imran opposed to unilateral climb-down
Daily Express quoted Imran Khan as saying that Nawaz Sharif was wrong to advise that Pak troops should unilaterally climb down from Siachen heights. He said the solution lay in both India and Pakistain agreeing to recall their troops together.
Who will own eunuchs?
| "Not I," said the duck. |
General Aurakzai speaks out
Retired General Ali Jan Aurakzai told Nawa-e-Waqt that in his latest book he had recounted how he had arranged peace deals with the Taliban in 2002 which were violated under the influence of the Americans. Aurakzai was first corps commander then governor NWFP and was known for the peace deals he made in the Tribal Areas. He said he had told the story in his book. Once President Bush asked whether he was scared of Taliban killing him; to which Musharraf had replied that he himself belonged to the Tribal areas and was popular there. Aurakzai was given a bullet proof vehicle by Musharraf.
Hindu girls convert of free will?
| No. What fun would that be? |
| Of course there are good Pakistanis. But the Land of the Pure has chosen to embody every form of evil. |
Writing in Jang Haroon Rasheed stated that Nawaz Sharif was wrong to say that Pakistain should unilaterally (pehel karo) withdraw its troops from the Siachen front. This would be like letting someone occupy a piece of one's property and then instead of ousting him get oneself ousted so that the trespasser should stay there permanently. Will Nawaz Sharif satisfy his party workers in Azad Kashmire on this position?
Col Safdar on Siachen
Columnist Hamid Mir wrote in Jang that the visit of Nawaz Sharif to Gyari post will do a lot of good in the Gilgit-Baltistan region whose 60 sons had been lost under the avalanche. He added that Nawaz Sharif's pilot Col Safdar once saved the life of a British climber but was served a show-cause notice for doing so against the rules; but after the BBC announced that Col Safdar was cited in the UK for bravery the show-cause notice was withdrawn and Tamgha-e-Shujaat given to him.
Haroon Rasheed versus Imran Khan
Prize winning columnist Haroon Rasheed wrote in Jang that Imran Khan was wrong in saying that contact of Pakistain with the people of Kashmire had weakened because the Kashmiris are now set on the road to seeking independence. This was a wrong position to take because Imran Khan cannot shape his strategy like this (khaak lahiya amal ikhtiar karen gay.) Imran Khan did not understand the significance of the half a century of struggle of the Kashmire cause.
People steal Imran Khan's chairs
Daily Express reported that the grand meeting of Imran Khan's Tehrik Insaf in Quetta became unruly after Imran Khan had delivered his speech. About 12,000 people got out of control and workers got on to the stage and started breaking everything in sight. People began taking away the chairs provided for their seating while others simply resorted to throwing them around. Some disgruntled workers also indulged in hostile slogan-raising.
| OMG! Hostile slogan raising? One simply cannot associate with such people! |