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India-Pakistan
Nuggets from the Urdu Press
Gujranwala prepares suicide-bombers

Reported in Jinnah a madrassa attacked by the police revealed three terrorists who were arrested and two abducted boys talking training as suicide-bombers
Thus providing them with a (briefly) salable skill, unlike their unkidnapped schoolmates.
plus a lot of explosive material. Qari Ziaullah was arrested but the name of his organisation was not revealed for fear of reprisals from the powerful terrorists. Qari was arrested from Qila Didar Singh making good money off catching small boys.

Shahbaz in 'aghyar' mode
Blither, blither, blather...
Daily Jang quoted chief minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif as saying that that those who don't belong in us (aghyar) were determined to destroy us but he would himself accept death rather than accept the mastery of them. He asked the nation to stand up (utth khari ho). Daily Jinnah reported him as saying that he was saying it openly (duuankay ki chot par) that he would let his life go (jaan chali jayai) but not take bakhsheesh from strangers (aghyar).

Gen Ehtesham Zamir and American 'dabotch'

New columnist Major-General (Retd) Ehtesham Zamir wrote in Jang that on May 2 Pakistan was in the grip (dabotch) of America for 50 minutes. Than God made America take pity on Pakistan and did not increase this 'dabotch' to hours. This came after six or seven years that America began coddling Pakistan (goad main liya). Now we are fighting among ourselves while Americans might do more Abbottabads.
Yes, they might. Shall we discuss those training camps y'all want to ignore?

Ramshackle Schools in Punjab
If that's what they're like in the heartland, one shudders to think what's getting kaboomed in the tribal areas.
Daily Pakistan reported that 1,309 schools in Punjab were without any seats for the pupils to sit on and lacked the facility of drinking water and a boundary wall. In Lahore, 70 percent of the schools lacked furniture while the budget for it may have been spent only on papers. Many classes were being held under the hot summer sun while education bureaucracy rested in air-conditioned rooms without much work.

'Nawaz offending China'
Dear Hamid Gul, who always has his country's interests at heart.
World famous ex-ISI boss Hamid Gul told Nawa-e-Waqt that Nawaz Sharif by repeating his resolve to implement his India policy was offending the Chinese leadership who wanted Pakistan to confront India rather than be friendly with it. He said it was shocking that Nawaz was advising the nation not to go too far in its enmity of India.

China doesn't give cash assistance!

Daily Jang shocked the nation by declaring on its front page in a news item that China was under obligation by its laws not to give cash assistance to any state. That was why Pakistan was not getting any assistance to offset the loss accruing from suspending the friendship with the US. It quoted Farrukh Saleem as saying that increasing trade with China from the present $9 billion to $15 billion in the coming years would only increase the trade imbalance of Pakistan. (Enemy India plans to increase its trade with China to $200 billion in the same period.)
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/15/2011 09:17 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I do so need an App for Daily Jang that I might be informed "on the go". However proposed App is aghyar so we must utth khari ho and demand it. I have informed Silky she no longer be goad main liya and must fetch her own bonez.


/Use you Urdu here
Posted by: S || 07/15/2011 13:23 Comments || Top||

#2  *giggle *
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/15/2011 14:36 Comments || Top||


IHC asks police to register girl`s incest charge
[Dawn] Chief Justice Iqbal Hameedur Rehman of Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday set aside a lower court`s dismissal of a complaint of incest of a girl against her father and ordered the SHO Golra Police Station to register her complaint, probe the allegation and report to the court.

In passing the order on the petition of the 18-year-old girl NS, Justice Rehman said it was inappropriate to initiate an inquiry and conduct medical tests before registering the FIR.

Additional Sessions Judge Syed Wajahat Hasan had dismissed the same petition of NS on June 29, declaring the matter a family dispute.

SHO Golra Qasim Khan Niazi said he would register an FIR as directed by the IHC.

Police said NS had approached Golra Police Station on June 8 with her complaint of incest and murderous attempt by her father LA who was incarcerated. Since medical tests did not establish rape, he was tried for admitting to murderous intent and was sentenced to 15 days imprisonment, according to a police officer.

Advocate Arif Ali, counsel for the accused father LA, denied the charge levelled against his client and told the IHC single bench that LA had fixed the marriage of NS with the son of his brother but the girl was interested in someone else.

According to him, medical reports of the girl did not support her allegations while report of her DNA test was still awaited and therefore, the court may wait for the results before passing an order.

Deputy Attorney General Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, who appeared on behalf of Islamabad Police and apprised the court of police inquiry, prayed for dismissal of the petition at an early stage.

Petitioner NS` counsel, Saeed Khursheed Ahmed Panuhan, however argued that police initiated the inquiry "without the orders of a competent authority".

Chief Justice Rehman observed that the matter was very serious in nature and must be dealt in accordance with the established principles of law.

Lawyer Panuhan also cast doubts on authenticity of DNA test by saying that police had sent "dubious samples" for the test which, in any case, should have been done after the registration of FIR.

LA twice raped his daughter NS and been trying to dodge the law by producing fake medical reports in the court that he was incapable of having sex, the lawyer alleged.

He also accused LA and his brother of issuing threats to his client and the area police of refusing to register her complaint.

There was sufficient incriminating material to connect the accused with the commission of offence under section 376 and 324 PPC, the lawyer argued.

Civil society activists attended the court proceedings to express sympathy with the girl petitioner.

After the proceedings, LA alleged to Dawn that his daughter fabricated the incest charge, with the rest of the family, after he caught her in an illicit relationship with a son-in-law of his with the initial `N`.

Actually N planned to get him killed, using his son, to inherit about 10 kanals of land that he owned in F-12 and F-13 sectors, LA charged.
Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What lovely people.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/15/2011 14:38 Comments || Top||

#2  And people wonder why I think the most appropriate response to Pakistan is total destruction and dismemberment.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 07/15/2011 15:18 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Governor Moonbeam Signs Gay History Law
Ay Pee Moonbean says history should be honest. Trunks call it well-intentioned but ill-conceived. The State already requires specific instruction in women, a variety of hyphenated Americans, entrepreneurs, Native Americans, and labor. Also the Holocaust and Irish Potato Famine. Among other topics.

I wonder if they have any time left for the Founding Fathers, or Abe and the War Between the States?
Posted by: Bobby || 07/15/2011 06:25 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ..maybe, but reading, writing, 'rithmatic are shoved out of the time allotted. Elocution went out a long time ago.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/15/2011 8:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Governor, how are you going to work gay history into math, physics, English, and chemistry? Are the Revolutionary War and Civil War now going to become a struggle for gay rights? Aren't there some important things to address such as your state economy being in the dumper and getting worse all the time? What about corruption in state government?
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/15/2011 9:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Socialists have long known that their greatest enemy is history of all kinds, so until they have destroyed it, or corrupted it so much that it is illegible, they cannot destroy culture, nationality, and civilization itself, to bring forth their fantasy parallel to the Garden of Eden called The State of Nature.

The truly creepy part of socialism is how those ignorant and idealistic fools manage to reach approximately the same Luddite conclusions over time, without any great binding document to explain it all to them.

Which brings up my toxoplasmosis theory.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 07/15/2011 10:15 Comments || Top||

#4  make sure to include the explicit descriptions (and consequences) of anonymous sex with ten-twenty partners in a single night in the gay bathhouse era. Something to be proud about.
Posted by: Frank G || 07/15/2011 10:15 Comments || Top||

#5  My gut instinct is they want the right to make a fuss and get it on a ballot so they can ensure turnout in the next election. Every important election must have a gay or abortion issue on the ballot to guarantee turnout.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 07/15/2011 10:29 Comments || Top||

#6  OK, folks, I'm gonna say it one more time: We do not need this state legislature and because of mischief making like this it should be abolished. Moonbeam signed the bill but it was concocted in the same state legislature that cannot produce a balanced budget. A measure like this would not have a snowball's chance in hell if it went before the people of this state as a ballot proposition.

I hang my head in shame.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 07/15/2011 11:07 Comments || Top||

#7  All famous dead people were probably gay. Unless they did "bad things" like Hitler or Stalin. Since you can't ask them, just ask a gay activist and they'll be happy to tell you all about it.
Posted by: tu3031 || 07/15/2011 11:44 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/15/2011 13:22 Comments || Top||

#9  JohnQC didn't ya hear, chemistry is racist. Bobby, not too long ago there was some push which Abe was the gayist gay to gay up recent history.

Some screwball argued that if he had heard Alexandar the Great was gay, he would have had a happier childhood. Last prog I hear, AtG was an imperialist warmongering murderer; so I guess Mao was gay as well.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/15/2011 14:19 Comments || Top||

#10  Can we assume it will be offered in primary language Spanish as well as secondary English?
Posted by: Capsu78 || 07/15/2011 15:13 Comments || Top||

#11 
Some screwball argued that if he had heard Alexandar the Great was gay, he would have had a happier childhood.


Personally, I think the alleged homosexuality of Alexander was the result of some ancient fan-fiction being mistaken as history. Heck, if it happens with Kirk and Spock, it could happen with Alexander...
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/15/2011 17:26 Comments || Top||

#12  Here's how you can work homosexuality into math:
One man marries another man. How many children can they produce?
Answer: none.

Actually, that wouldn't be allowed, because the law also prohibits disparaging gays in any way.
Also, having no children would probably be seen as a good thing.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/15/2011 18:30 Comments || Top||

#13  I wouldn't get too upset. Like abortion, it's a self curing problem.
Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165 || 07/15/2011 18:34 Comments || Top||

#14  How to tell the Pole-r from the Pol- ee or the Poke -r from the Pok --ee. Seems like that could be a class right there - an important one.
Posted by: Chief || 07/15/2011 20:12 Comments || Top||

#15  Some screwball argued that if he had heard Alexandar the Great was gay, he would have had a happier childhood.

The ancient Greeks defined things differently. Dear Alexander married a lovely young girl who bore him a son, and if both died or disappeared after Alexander's death, that's nothing to do with the fact that he did his duty as a Greek man. men for love, women for babies, that was the Greek way, and though a mere Macedonian, Alexander was as Greek as it was possible to be.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/15/2011 20:26 Comments || Top||

#16  Demosthenese: "We have wives to give us legitimate children, concubines for daily exercise, and prostitutes for variety." The only educated women were higher class prostitutes, so they could provide entertaining conversation for their customers. Having refused to give their women any chance to be persons in their own right, they had to turn to other men for real conversation. So anybody who wants to look at the ancient Greeks for a model is looking at the most sexist, mysogynistic culture of the time.
Posted by: mom || 07/15/2011 20:34 Comments || Top||

#17  ahhhh but they built a successful financial system, no?
Posted by: Frank G || 07/15/2011 21:00 Comments || Top||

#18  Mom, hey that was good. "So anybody who wants to look at the ancient Greeks for a model is looking at the most sexist, mysogynistic culture of the time". You have a way with words. Your entire comment was good, it had a flow to it.
Posted by: Dale || 07/15/2011 21:48 Comments || Top||

#19  Indeed mom, good quote and follow up.

I've seen this though, by the time the corriculum is present Alexandar will be so flaming that he smote his enemies into ash with a single circular fingersnap.

Perhaps they will have a sexual orientation draft similar to Dave Chapelle's race draft:
"We the homosexual community draft...Molly Pitcher"

"We the heterosexual community can only accept this appointment if the homosexual community also accept the Marquis de Sade."

"Super, thanks for asking"

And it has been my experience that gay, or homosexual, or whatever the kids call it now, couples with lasting relationships eventually settle on a traditional arrangement of duties, or stay single. Not painting all, and mean no offense, just my experience. The best way I found who was what was to be there when the house chores are due, second best is going along shopping.

This is not a mature law, its another stupid effn class where the point is to impress the teacher or fail. How I hated the class formats.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/15/2011 22:20 Comments || Top||



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