Opposing America may cost us dear| Clever, insightful man! |
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
supply line should be resumed.
Egyptian dancer weds and divorces top holy man
Daily Mashriq reported that a belly dancer of Egypt revealed that she had wed and divorced the top leader of the Salafist Party Al Nur. But leader al Masari said that he could swear by Allah that he heard the name of the said dancer for the first time and had not wed her. But the Islamists of Egypt were greatly disturbed by the scandal.
Tehrik Insaf's internal conflicts
Daily Nawa-e-Waqt reported that internal rifts had appeared in Tehrik Insaf of Imran Khan
... aka
Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight...
because the big names who had entered the party had developed differences with the top leader. A session at the house of Khwaja Muhammad Hoti was attended by Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri and other workers who thought that partymen were being insulted.
America recreating British India
Famous columnist Abdul Qadir Hasan wrote in Express that America wanted South Asia to revert to India under the British Raj with Sri Lanka, Pakistain and Bangladesh back as part of the Indian state. But in this plan Pakistain was the only obstacle because its Army was still ready to die (mar-mitna) for the state which was now a nuclear power. India did not have the guts to attack Pakistain and, if it did, nothing will be left of it (kuchch nahin bachay ga).
| For a very tightly defined measure of nothing which means still more than of Pakistan, this is very true. |
Columnist Nusrat Javeed wrote in Express that he found it strange that whenever a public figure became powerful he as a columnist started feeling hostile towards him, on the principle of accountability of public figures. He said he felt sympathy for Babar Awan who was once so powerful but was now Joseph without his caravan (Yusuf-e-bekarvan).
Fazl Karim too against NATO route
Great Barelvi religious leader Sahibzada Fazl Karim told Jinnah that reopening of the NATO route would be like signing the deed of slavery to the US. He said it would be criminal to sell the nation for a few dollars after the nation had rejected this sale. Pak rulers should learn from the downfall of Arab leaders.
Imran not opposed to NATO route
Daily Jang reported Imran Khan as saying that his party Tehrik Insaf will not support the opposition alliance opposing the resumption of NATO supply route. He said this after his representatives attended some rallies of the Defence of Pakistain Council composed of 40 religious parties now opposing the parliamentary recommendation that the supply route be reopened under new conditions.
Javed Hashmi took Rs 1.8 crore
Famous politician now in Tehrik Insaf Javed Hashmi told Express that he did go to the house of General Aslam Beg but did not take any money from the Mehrangate fund of Yunus Habib who said that Javed Hashmi indeed took Rs 1 crore 87 lakh.
Meera to become columnist
Famous Pak filmstar Meera told Jinnah that she was fond of writing from his childhood and could produce high quality writing in Urdu and now she did not need to pay an Urdu columnist to write a column in her praise. She will soon start writing her own column.
Can PM be punished for wife's sins?
According to Nawa-e-Waqt commenting on a case brought to the Supreme Court asking that PM Gilani be disqualified because his wife Fauzia Gilani had got crores of her loans written off incorrectly, the Chief Justice said: how can the prime minister be punished for the acts of his wife?
Son scared of his father Bilal Khar
Daily Nawa-e-Waqt reported that the son of Fakhra Khar whose face was destroyed allegedly after acid-throwing by Bilal Khar, don of a well-known leader in Punjab, was unwilling to come to Pakistain because he feared father. Fakhra tried to recover from the burn through plastic surgery in Italia but after it did not work she did away with himself. Noman Khar was scared of his father Bilal Khar who was acquitted of the accusation made by Fakhra that he had thrown acid on her face.
Fifty muftis give fatwas against NATO route
Reported from Lahore in daily Jang fifty muftis had issued fatwas saying that if NATO supply route was resumed it will be against Islamic law and that there will be disaster (azab) from Allah on whoever takes part in this deal. The muftis were all of Ahle Sunnat who stated that supply route enabled the slaughter of innocent Mohammedans. Hafiz Muhammad Saeed
...who would be wearing a canvas jacket with very long sleeves anyplace but Pakistain...
and Munawwar Hasan were found in Defence of Pakistain Council dharna in front of parliament saying that they will go to the last extent to stop the NATO route from being opened.
Polishing Indian shoes by Pak lawyers
Reported in Jang president of Supreme Court Bar Association Yasin Azad said that two lawyers including an attorney general had gone in a delegation to India but soon left the delegation and began speaking against Pakistain's policies and apologising for the transgressions of Pakistain and reinforcing their sentiments by cleaning shoes at Sikh shrines. He demanded that action be taken against the erring lawyers.
'I will end half corruption in 9 days!'
Imran Khan was quoted in Nawa-e-Waqt as saying that he would end half the corruption in Pakistain in 9 days. He said this in reply to expressions of incredulity after he had earlier said that he would end all corruption in three months.
| Too many blows to the head when he was a cricketeer, one suspects. The connection to reality is weak in this one. |
Chief of JUI
Maulana Fazlur RehmanDeobandi holy man, known as
Mullah Dieselduring the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ...
told Nawa-e-Waqt that if the establishment did not back off from a clash with his party it would be itself responsible for the consequences because he had decided to stop the resumption of the NATO supply route with violence.
Imran Khan's sixers and tsunami
Columnist Saleem Safi wrote in Jang that Imran Khan was referring too much to his party as tsunami and a cricket team in which he would hit sixers and bowl out PPP and PMLN in one ball. The fact was that after the Lahore jalsa his party had not staged an impressive follow-up in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
and there was too much internal disorder (ifrat tafreet) to be seen in the party ranks. The columnist appealed to Imran Khan not to use the cricket terms too much because there was a limit to the similarities between the game and politics.
NATO supply route will lead to bloodshed
Quoted in Nawa-e-Waqt leader of JUI(S) Maulana Samiul Haq said that if the NATO supply route was resumed there would be bloodshed because the right to allow it belonged to 18 crore people of Pakistain and not parliament. Earlier the Taliban had threatened bloodshed if the route was reopened.
The Taliban on Monday backed away from comments they might join tribal councils aimed at ending growing violence in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Senior spokesman Sayed Tayeb Agha said the rebels would never join such talks as long as foreign soldiers remained in Afghanistan. 
ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Foreign Minister 
ISLAMABAD - Stung by US President George Bushs refusal to grant access to American nuclear know-how, Pakistan accused the United States of discriminating against it and of upsetting the balance of power in South Asia.
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court directed standing counsel for Pakistan Mehmood Alam on Tuesday to ascertain from the federal government where and under what laws it had detained various people, whose next of kin had invoked the jurisdiction of the courts. The direction was issued during the hearing of a miscellaneous application of a woman claiming to be the sister of Al Qaeda leader 
Iran's top nuclear negotiator sought to soothe international unease over his country's nuclear programme during a visit to Pakistan on Wednesday, days after a U.N. watchdog confirmed Tehran had resumed uranium conversion. 
ISLAMABAD, May 20 (Reuters) - Pakistani police have arrested three Pakistani Islamic militants suspected of links to