Reported in Jinnah the in-laws of Faizan who was killed by a CIA contractor in Lahore and whose family and wife received diyat or blood money for letting off the killer fell victim to another tragedy - that of who will get the money. Faizan's wife and her mother wanted her to remarry which the head of the family Shahzad Butt did not want. He killed both with his pistol. The police said he killed because he wanted to keep the crores of rupees received as blood money. Fahim was killed along with Faizan. His wife had earlier did away with himself.
Beautiful Downtown Peshawar without writ of state
Quoted in Jinnah chief justice of the Peshawar High Court stated that the writ of the Peshawar government did not run beyond 10 km and the people relied on courts to provide what the government could not provide: law and order.
| Which courts cannot provide without the power of the government to enforce it, a neat dilemma for the philosophical. |
Reported in Nawa-e-Waqt Osama was so dearly beloved of the people of Pakistain that the bricks of his abandoned house in Abbottabad
... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden....
- razed to the ground recently - were being sold for $10 apiece by visitors from all over Pakistain.
| Like relics of the saints in Christendom, it is highly likely that a few of the bricks are indeed exactly what is claimed. The rest, as is traditional, acquire their holiness from the belief of the faithful. |
Writing in Express Nusrat Javeed referred to JUIS holy man Maulana Zahid who attended the parliamentary security committee formulating the foreign policy of Pakistain but later announced that contrary to the recommendations he accepted in the committee he would not allow the NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization....
supplies to pass through Pakistain. Columnist reminds him that he should have abstained from going to the Raza Rabbani Committee if he had those convictions.
Nawab Sharif's flight to Soddy Arabia
Columnist Nusrat Javeed stated in Express 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...
should recall that under Musharraf he was not convicted by a military court but a civil court after which he left the country with the help of Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in their national face...
and Lebanese prime minister Hariri and went and lived in a hotel suit in Saudi Arabia. He came back when the movement to restore the Supreme Court was raging under Musharraf who was forced to restore it. But he took care first to ask the Court if he could return. The Court told him he could. But on his return Prince Muqran arrived from Saudi Arabia saying Nawaz Sharif had vowed to stay away for ten years and took him back to his Sarwar suite in Saudi Arabia.
What Hamid Gul told Gilani
Columnist Hamid Mir wrote in Jang that Prime Minister Gilani became the strongest prime minister of Pakistain after President Zardari surrendered all the presidential powers to him through 18th, 19th and 20th amendments of the Constitution. But it was an irony that as he got more powerful his family became more and more embroiled in controversies. In 1989 ISI boss
Hamid GulThe nutty former head of Pakistain's ISI, now Godfather to Mullah Omar's Talibs and good buddy and consultant to al-Qaeda's high command...
told him that if had not decided to join the PPP the powers-that-be had decided to make him the prime minister in place of Nawaz Sharif.
Gilani nearly Musharraf's PM
According to Hamid Mir in Jang Musharraf sent his favoured politicians Humayun Akhtar to meet Yousaf Raza Gilani who was serving his sentence in jail after being convicted for malpractices as speaker of National assembly to ask him to leave PPP in order to become free again. But he refused as he refused the advances of a friend of Musharraf and adviser, Tariq Aziz.
Jamali PM by one vote
Daily Jang had Hamid Mir relate that one Arbab Raheem was sent to meet Gilani in jail to ask him to deliver his nephew Asad Murtaza MNA's vote so that he could be freed. After Gilani refused Arbab Raheem got someone else to change the loyalty of Gilani's nephew to gain the majority by one vote that made Zafrullah Jamali the prime minister of Pakistain by a single vote in the National Assembly.
'Courts favour despots, punish politicians'
Quoted in Mashriq human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal
liberty...
lawyer Asma Jahangir stated that the courts in Pakistain generally favoured despots while targeting politicians. She said PM Gilani was being congratulated for being convicted by the Court and this was a not a good sign. She said the judges should think about the reputation of the country. Mashriq also quoted attorney general Irfan Qadir that the punishment meted out to Gilani was contrary to the Constitution and that there was no contempt law existing in the country. He said the government will obey only if the decisions of the Court that were lawful.
Dr Sher Afgan on Supreme Court verdict
Talking to Jinnah legal eagle politician Dr Sher Afgan stated that even if the National Assembly was dissolved PM Gilani could go on being PM for six months. He said there was a rule of issuing short order in a criminal cases wherein testimonies are recorded, which did not happen in the contempt case against PM Gilani who was punished unheard. No court can punish a person outside the framework of its indictment. He said he could not find the Article under which Mr Gilani could be disqualified for five years.
Nawaz Sharif's blunder
Writing in Jang Hamid Mir stated that PMLN lost the last election in Multan because its leader had given the ticket to a turncoat who was swinging like a pendulum between PPP and Tehrik Insaf. The PMLN ignored its faithfuls and issued the ticket to a turncoat feudal who did not even hold any big rallies before defeated by the PPP candidate.
Afia Siddiqi betrayed by Al Qaeda
Daily Jang reported that Afia Siddiqi was not betrayed by Pakistain but by the Al Qaeda leader Khaled Sheikh Muhammad from his captivity at Guantanamo Bay to the Americans to save his own skin. Afia Siddiqi was claimed as a terrorist working for Al Qaeda while being married to a nephew of Khaled Sheikh Muhammad after separating from her first husband.
What does Pakistain want?
Columnist Saleem Safi wrote in Jang that Pakistain did not know what it wanted. Did it want an apology from the US? Yet when after Salala incident the Americans were willing to apologise Pakistain told them to hold on. Later the US was no longer willing to apologise. And now Pakistain had linked NATO supply route to an apology. Pakistain was doing all this while at the same time saying that delay in negotiations with America will be damaging to Pakistain's forthcoming budget and may throw Pak people into more suffering.
Don't give land to US embassy!
Chief Editor of Jinnah Khushnood Ali Khan stated that government had done a great disservice to Pakistain to give 148 additional acres to the US embassy in Islamabad so that the Americans could make their plans to kill more Paks while hiding in this new acreage. The US had employed 200 men to construct this new structure and they are suspect because most of them including a superintendent were Qadianis
| ...a Pakistani term of insult used by Sunnis against Ahmadiyyas... |