 America strong, Pakistain weak
Famous retired general Abdul Qayyum wrote in Nawa-e-Waqt that one reason America presented a resolution about 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...
in US Congress with such daring and stubbornness (dhitai) was that Pakistain was being ruled by a weak (kamzor) government and a useless (nakara) parliament. The declaration against the resolution by Pakistain is good for raising the morale of the people but to act on this statement would require a strong government which Pakistain did not have.
| Clever man, that famous retired general. |
Army misled Bhutto
Writing in Jang Hamid Mir stated that Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
...9th PM of Pakistain from 1973 to 1977, and 4th President of Pakistain from 1971 to 1973. He was the founder of the Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP). His eldest daughter, Benazir Bhutto, would also serve as hereditary PM. In a coup led by General Zia-ul-Haq, Bhutto was removed from office and was executed in 1979 for authorizing the murder of a political opponent...
was misled by the Army to attack Balochistan. Later the Army compelled Bhutto to expel such genuine members of his party as Meraj Muhammad Khan and JA Rahim because they were critical of the anti-democracy thinking of the Army. When Bhutto went on obeying the generals the Army in February 1976 kidnapped the son of Baloch sardar Ataullah Mengal, Asad, from 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 killed him and buried him somewhere in Thatta.
Against Punjabi-Punjabi friendship
Editor of Punjabi magazine Sanjhan was quoted by Nawa-e-Waqt as saying that the creation of united Punjab was not acceptable to him as vehicle of friendship between India and Pakistain on the basis of Punjabi language. He said those who were promoting this were renegades of Pakistain and conspirators. He said Sikhs and Hindus of Punjab in India and Moslems of Punjab in Pakistain could not be one nation. He added that had this been true Pakistain could not have become a nuclear power.
| It is such deep thinking that has brought Pakistan to where it is today. | Hamid Gul agent of American NGO
Daily Nawa-e-Waqt reported that famous Pak strategist and ex-ISI boss  Hamid Gul
The 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...
was discovered to be honorary member of an American CIA-linked intelligence agency, Stratfor. Gul replied that Stratfor was not an intelligence agency but a think tank.
Much admired 'khatarnak' journalist
Famous Urdu columnist Abdul Qadir Hasan wrote in Express that Majeed Nizami owner-editor of Nawa-e-Waqt was an opposition journalist by nature. He was not only that but also dangerous (khatarnak) in the adherence of his ideology. These days Nizami was leading a movement against official and private institutions spreading propaganda of friendship with India. Nizami was a great support for lonely columnists like Abdul Qadir Hasan, he wrote.
Meera's marriage meanders
Famous filmstar Meera was reported by Jang as getting subjected to further meanderings of her forthcoming marriage to a pilot Pak residing in the US. The father of Captain Naveed - named as Raja Khalid -P told the press that Meera had deprived his son of 400,000 dollars and that he was totally opposed to the match. He said Meera could not marry his son as long as he was alive. Daily Express reported that Meera's earlier husband who claimed nikah with Meera jumped into the case and renewed his legal battle of getting Meera to consummate her marriage to him. Raja Khalid said he would consider marrying his son to her if she first took a divorce from her earlier husband.
English columnists who mislead the nation
Daily Express columnist Nusrat Javeed stated ironically that if you want to know the authoritative opinion about the 'real rulers' of Pakistain then read English columns usually written by retired diplomats and military officers who have spent their entire lives serving the establishment. If you want to know the real economy of Pakistain then read hired economists who once served the finance ministry or the planning commission. But had these wise men busy generously spreading their wisdom been genuine, Pakistain would not have become what it had become.
Rise of Allah Nazar in Balochistan
Columnist Hamid Mir wrote in Jang that it was wrong to say that the sardars of Balochistan were taking the province towards secession and terrorism. Allah Nazar Baloch the current leader of the violent movement belonged to a poor home in the poorest part of the province, Awaran, who had an MBBS degree with gold medal in the specialisation of Gynaecology. In 2005 Dr Allah Nazar was kidnapped and brought to Bloody Karachi where he was made naked and tortured and when he nearly died he was handed over to the police which made numerous terrorism cases against him. After he was released for lack of proof he went back and started his terrorist movement which contains no sardar and is purely made up of the poor classes of Balochistan.
Lahore Bar versus 'Qadiani' Shezan
Monthly Naya Zamana reported that the great wukla persons of Lahore had got together under the banner of Lahore Bar Association had done something that was ignored by the Urdu press because of sympathy but taken note of by English press. The wukla had resolved to ban the products of Shezan, maker of cold drinks and other products from the precincts of the courts in the city because Shezan was known to be owned by Qadiani minority. Chief of the Bar stated that the step was being taken after a request made by Khatm-e-Nabuwwat Lawyers' Forum organization.
Pakistain has got new friends!
| Let us wish her much joy of them. |
Reporting for Nawa-e-Waqt Ramiza Nizami discovered in her survey that Pakistain was no longer isolated after breaking with the US because it had found new friends. She also discovered that by opposing the Iran-Pakistain gas pipeline America would not be able to maintain normal relations with Pakistain. Additionally she discovered that trade with India will create markets in Pakistain for India after which Pakistain will not be able to protect its national interest.
India is not 'pasandida'!
Daily Nawa-e-Waqt reported famous men like Hamid Gul, Moin Haider and Hafiz Saeed
...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat...
as saying that calling India pasandida (much liked) was against the ideology of Pakistain and meant betrayal of the Kashmire cause. They said India had already damaged Pakistain by stopping its river water; and by becoming a mandi (market) of India Pakistain will be destroyed.
| Once the Americans leave, who then will give Pakistan money to live beyond its means? Not China, which is out for what it can take, not Iran, which doesn't have it to share, and not Saudi Arabia, which is only interested in financing madrassahs and mosques. |
General Zia and sectarian slaughter
Writing in Jang Hamid Mir stated that General Zia in his 11 years of rule instigated the trend of sectarian violence against the Shia in Pakistain. It was a part of his strategy to weaken political parties and raise linguistic and ethnic organizations that caused the persecution of the Shia of Gilgit-Baltistan. Today the Shia of neglected Gilgit-Baltistan were being slaughtered and the region had a separatist organization of Balawaristan trying to create a new state near the Chinese border. Hence it was not only the Baloch sardars who were busy raising a separatist flag in Balochistan.
Shezan and Qadianis
Shoaib Adil wrote in Monthly Naya Zamana that Shezan had numberless non-Ahmadis working in the factory who will be affected by the lawyers' ban. But the wukla persons of Lahore Bar Association should have extended the ban to foreign drinks like Pepsi because they were owned by Jews
because the Jews were considered more dangerous by Moslems than the Qadianis, declared non-Moslems
by the Constitution after which they enjoyed the same rights as Moslems under the Constitution.
| No doubt our Dear Readers caught that particular bit of cleverness. |
The Lahore Bar website contained 16,000 members - many among them Qadiani - but the decision to ban Shezan was taken by a few fanatics. The upholders of law had ignored the legal principle of majority vote among its 16,000 members.
| But it was a majority of those permitted to vote, so the proprieties were satisfied. |
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| Iran sends bodies of five 'blast victims' |
| 2009-10-24 |
 [Dawn] Iranian border authorities handed over to Pakistan on Friday the bodies of five Pakistanis, claiming that they were killed in the suicide attack on the Revolutionary Guards on Sunday.
Not the boomer, surely? Or were they handed over in coffee cans?
According to sources, Iranian authorities suddenly informed the Taftan administration and Pakistani border officials that they had brought the bodies. 'A letter was handed over to Pakistani border authorities with the bodies,' the sources said.
Dear government of Pakistain,
How are you? We are fine. Keep your beturbanned mosque refuse out of our country or they'll get the same.
Yours truly,
Government of Iran
However, Pakistani border officials expressed doubt about the claim of Iranian authorities. A police officer in Taftan, Abid Khan, said the cause of deaths appeared to be torture. 'I am sure they were not killed in a bomb blast.'
"We certainly have enough kabooms here. We should know what they look like!"
He said blood was oozing from the ears and noses of two bodies. Although only medical examination would determine the cause of death, they appeared to have been tortured, he said.
Musta been pretty fresh-killed for the blood to still be oozing. Maybe he shoulda said "crusted."
The bodies were received by an official of the Taftan administration, Syed Zahid Shah. He said four of the men hailed from Yaro, in Pishin district, and from Nawan Killi, near Quetta.
Maybe they died after listening to Muskrat Love ...
He said the deceased -- Abdul Sattar, Rehmatullah, Abdullah, Wali Mohammad and Allah Nazar -- belonged to the Trahkai Pakhtun tribe and had gone to Iran in search of jobs.
"I got a job for yez!"
"Oh, yeah? Doin' what?"
"Infantry support to a suicide boomer!"
"What's it pay?"
"10,000 rupees if you make it!"
"And if we don't?"
"72 doe-eyed houris!"
"Apiece?"
The bodies were handed over to their relatives. Amanullah, a relative of one of the victims, said: 'I have received the five bodies in Taftan from Pakistani border officials.'
"Yeah. It wuz awful. Poor Sonny. All that blood oozing from his nose and ears! Left a trail all over the house! Pretty much ruined the rug!"
"It's a Persian rug, right ma'am?"
He said after learning that the five men, who were related to each other, had been arrested in Zahidan four days ago he had gone to Taftan along with another relative to make efforts for their release. However, when he reached Taftan, he was informed about their death. 'An independent inquiry should be conducted into the cause of the deaths,' he said.
"But we're gonna do it on this side of the border!... And we're takin' donations of paper towels!"
AFP adds: Iran's Fars news agency quoted Sistan-Baluchestan's deputy governor Jalal Sayyah as saying that four Pakistani citizens were among those who had died in the attack on the Revolutionary Guards. He alleged that the suicide attacker had been trained in 'one of Jundallah chief Abdolmalek Rigi's bases in Pakistan'. |
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