 Milking a bull
Izharul Haq writes in Dunya that by making an electoral alliance with Maulana Fazlur Rehman
Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ...
, 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...
might be thinking he could defeat Imran Khan
... aka Taliban Khan , who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five...
in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
and gain some political leverage.
Sharif is a shrewd businessman and he can make 100,000 rupees out of one rupee, but this is politics. Deriving any benefit from the Maulana in politics is like milking a bull. Fazlur Rehman kept former president Gen Pervez Perv Musharraf
... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ...
and  President Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari
... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in ...
in his pocket for eight and five years respectively, and did not let them move.
Tariq Ali supports Imran Khan
Nusrat Javeed writes in his column in Express that he used to hear a lot about Tariq Ali in his college days. Ali was known as a revolutionary, but he really wasn't. His struggle was limited to making speeches in foreign countries.
When Tariq Ali came to Lahore in 1970, the staunch socialists of Lahore did not welcome him. He made his uncle Shaukat Hayat Khan put land reforms in the manifesto of the Moslem League, but they were never implemented.
 I don't know what Tariq Ali has been doing since then. I bought his novel but found it too difficult to understand for someone at my level of intellect. I could not read more than a few pages.
Tariq Ali attended the literary festival in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
, where he said Imran Khan should get a chance. Imran Khan is cranking out reports after reports through think tanks on how to solve Pakistain's problems. He should set up a think tank for Tariq Ali so that he could talk to the Taliban and bring peace in the country. Tariq Ali's flawless English will make Imran Khan's party more revolutionary.
India steals Pak jokes
Afzal Rehman writes in Dunya that Pakistain has the best comedians. India steals Pak jokes, but Indian comedians make one cry, instead of making one laugh. Punjabi is the ideal language for comedy.
 Halva and Naswar at APC
Eeported in Dunya, Maulana Fazlur Rehman served Naswar and Halva to the participants of his All Parties Conference. The participants ran towards the Halva dishes as if they were starving for weeks.
Taliban can't sleep
Daily Dunya juxtaposed two statements - one by Interior Minister Rehman Malik
Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship.
and the other by Punjab Home Minister Rana Sanaullah.
Malik says his security strategy is giving the Taliban sleepless nights. Sanaullah says Malik is a confirmed foreign spy.
 Mr Bean of Moslem society
Sohail Bawa complains in Islam that holy mans have become an object of fun and jokes in our society. The Mullah is the Charlie Chaplain or Mr Bean of the Moslem society.
Clerics have been linked to jokes, foolishness, helplessness, poverty and illiteracy in drawing rooms. They are seen as people who call others infidels and promote terrorism.
Anybody can ridicule a holy man. The Mullah is a toy that anyone can play with. When children imitate the mullah who teaches them, their parents laugh and encourage it.
Retired bureaucrats become self-righteous
Famous writer and retired bureaucrat Kishwar Naheed writes in Jang that most generals and civil servants have nothing to do after retirement and they start recalling their evil deeds. They become self-righteous and start writing autobiographies, for example Hassan Zaheer, Roedad Khan, Gen Chishti, Gen Musharraf and Shahid Aziz.
They start fearing Allah in every fourth line. From Qudratullah Shahab to Altaf Gauhar, they all wrote bundles of lies in the name of literature.
Why don't these liars fear Allah when they are in service? Why do they lick the boots of the rulers to get extensions and new assignments when they are retiring?
Taliban do not take Rehman Malik seriously
Quoted in Jang, Taliban front man Ehsanullah Ehsan said his organization did not take Interior Minister Rehman Malik seriously.
He is a comedian and if he continues to talk non-sense, we will take it to mean the government is not serious in holding talks with us.
Fazlur Rehman betrayed Taliban
Abdul Qadir Looni, secretary general of Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam
...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability...
(Nazriati), says in Ausaf that the Afghan Taliban don't trust Maulana Fazlur Rehman.
He ditched them when they needed his help. He is an opportunist. He has no morals and no principles. We can't even think of making an alliance with him.
Nawab Aslam Raisani, the ex-chief minister of Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
, is the chief patron of the ministers who kidnap people for ransom. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
... 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 ...
does not exist in Balochistan.
Rescue 1122 saves heartbroken lover
Daily Jang reports that Rescue 1122 foiled a suicide attempt by a spinster whose lover betrayed her. She climbed on a tree and threatened to jump down. Intelligence officers in the Cantonment area failed to convince her to climb down. Rescue 1122 rescued her with a crane.
Destruction in Afghanistan after 2014
Writing in Jang, Saleem Safi says he has gone insane telling the policymakers for years that they need to change their strategy against terrorism.
The strategy he suggests is fool proof and can eliminate terrorism. But he vows to keep advising them. He sees complete destruction in Afghanistan after 2014.
Politicians change faces
Quoted in Nawa-e-Waqt, politician Sheikh Rashid Ahmad says politicians are plastic-surgery leaders. They change their faces in every election.
They are like hungry pigeons that would go to anyone for oat.
Urdu One is enemy number one
Ex ISI chief Hameed Gul's son Abdullah Gul states in Ausaf that he has vowed to wage jihad against obscenity and his enemy is the TV channel Urdu One, which is airing immoral Turkish plays that don't reflect the Turkish culture. They are corrupting the youth with semi-nude Turkish plays.
| The father was the masterminded the use of jihadis as tools of Pakistani policy, the son raises voice and waves fists at a television show. Sad, the thinning of the blood in only one generation. |
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Nawaz Sharif
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NWFP Governor 
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