 What we did wrong
Writing in Jang Nazir Naji stated that Pakistain was disturbed about Indian presence in Afghanistan and told the US that it should not be increased beyond a certain level. But then after Salala, Pakistain took too long deciding new terms of engagement with the US. That allowed India to get a better deal in Afghanistan with the consent of the NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
states, which saw Pakistain as being obstructive.
PPP and Army to blame
A leader of PMLN, Khurram Dastgir, told Express that the scandal of reopening the NATO supply route without proper conditions was the creation of both Pakistain Army and the PPP government. They ignored the parliamentary guidelines and allowed the Americans to drive a one-sided bargain.
India did it!
Quoted by Nawa-e-Waqt Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah stated that the Lahore killing of jail staff of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
could be the work of India. After the Taliban announcement that they had killed the jail staff because they had been cruel to Taliban prisoners, it is presumed that India had bribed the Taliban - together with the US - to get them to kill innocent Paks.
Justice Sharif's dues
Daily Nawa-e-Waqt reported that Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif was unfair when he wrote off the arrears of the house rent of ex-DG FIA Major Mushtaq, but did not do so in the case of former Lahore High Court chief justice Khwaja Sharif, who had overstayed in his official residence. He owed rent to the government and had received a notice asking him to pay up.
Betrayal after Salala
Columnist Hamid Mir wrote in Jang that Pakistain Army and the PPP government had reopened the NATO supply route in a very mysterious and non-transparent way. After Salala, Indo-Pak tensions mounted. They were lessened by Pakistain by releasing Indian spy Surjeet Singh, but India responded by unleashing the scandal of Abu Jandal, an Indian Moslem who it said was involved in the Mumbai attack and had also met Hafiz Muhammad Saeed
...who would be wearing a canvas jacket with very long sleeves anyplace but Pakistain...
in Faisalabad
...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after...
, thus implicating Hafiz Muhammad Saeed in terrorism.
Sheikh Rashid should join Imran Khan
... aka Taliban Khan , who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five...
Columnist Nusrat Javeed wrote in Express that Sheikh Rashid who had eaten 900 rats (Urdu idiom) should now join Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem , each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
of Imran Khan especially after Imran Khan had had a recent meeting with Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society , founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer . The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
chief Syed Munawwar Hasan, which could be the sign of a new direction for the Defence of Pakistain Council where Sheikh Rashid is always present.
Judiciary soft on the Sharifs
Firebrand Information Minister Sindh Sharjeel Memon told Express that the judiciary in Pakistain was favouring the PMLN and their leadership but the PPP was being supported by the 18 million people of Pakistain.
Shoaib Akhtar wants to wed Meera!
Quoted in Express, famous Pak filmstar Meera said that she was going to wed Captain Naveed but it was spoiled by ex-cricketer Shaoib Akhtar who was keen to marry her. She said she herself was keen on Shoaib Akhtar but he was responsible for obstructions in her plans to marry the US-based pilot.
AQ Khan and El Baradei
Famous columnist Abdul Qadir Hasan wrote in Express that famous Pak nuclear scientist and father of the bomb Dr AQ Khan had written that Egypt was thankfully rid of El Baradei who was an American agent hoping to become president of Egypt. El Baradei was head of the international nuclear authority IAEA that had raised objection to Dr Khan's project in Pakistain.
| But he carefully did not raise those objections until it was too late for anything to be done, the darling man, and then only mutedly. |
Egypt should learn that when the Americans were done with exploiting Musharraf they dumped him.
When the columnist burst into tears
Writing in Express, Abdul Qadir Hasan stated that he was lucky enough to see the mosque in Damascus
...The place where Pencilneck hangs his brass hat...
where Imam Ghazali wrote his famous book. He had seen all the world as a journalist but the joy he experienced in Central Asia he did not feel anywhere else. He visited the tomb of Imam Bukhari whose book of traditions was among the most beloved books in Islam. Hasan was so overcome that he burst into loud sobs (cheekhain nikal gaeen). He could not bear the greatness of the man who had compiled a book next only to the Koran.
But maulvis get scared!
Daily Express had columnist Abdul Qadir Hasan state that the state of Pakistain was great but lacked a great nation. These days a movement against America was launched by the holy mans of the country. They may be accused of anything but not of corruption. Corruption is a talent which also requires dishonesty. And the maulvis are free of those ills; yet they tend to get scared and draw back.
Wukla go berserk
Reported in Express, lawyers fell on the office bearers of Punjab Bar Council and broke the furniture of the room of the committee which had given a different verdict than they wanted in the case of insult to a lady lawyer. The wukla people were aroused to fury and shouted that the servants of the Bar had maltreated them as a result of which they had resorted to vandalism.
No words to describe insulted honour
World famous columnist Haroon Rashid wrote in Jang that Pakistain government was seeking comfort and was scared to struggle for truth and honour. Moslems had been complaining about this since the Mughal times. And now the reopening of NATO supply route had aroused the same feeling of hurt honour. This desire for comfort was forcing Moslems to lose their honour.
American kick in our face
Columnist Talat Husain wrote in Express that by saying sorry the way it did America had kicked Pakistain in the face. All observers of the region were agreed that America made an obscene gesture in the direction of Pakistain and then told it to get lost (apna rasta naapo). After this maltreatment the government with a parliamentary majority reopened the NATO supply route and did not even ask to be paid for the trucks passing through it. It is said that the Army was not happy with the way the apology was composed and made the Americans change its draft many times.
Causes of supply route opening
Columnist Saleem Safi wrote in Jang that the US wanted a deal with Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
but not on his terms. When Pakistain delayed its decision on the NATO route the Americans gave Karzai what he wanted after which Karzai made a long term defence deal with them, allowing the Americans to keep some troops in Afghanistan till 2224. Pakistain reopened the NATO route because the member states other than the US were in a hurry to get out of Afghanistan.
Imran Khan plays like Misbahul Haq
Writing in Express Talat Husain stated that Imran Khan should have reacted strongly to the reopening of the NATO route but he did not. He should have hit sixers but he actually played like Misbahul Haq. His bat is straight but the ball is not going more than a few yards. When he put his analysis to Tehrik-e-Insaf leaders they did not like it. |
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
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Nawaz Sharif
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