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Nuggets from the Urdu Press
 Do away with Durand Line!Reported by Khabrain: Speaking on a book on the Durand Line at the Peshawar Press Club, intellectuals said that the Durand Line was not a boundary but an agreement. It must be pulled down so that the Pushtun nation could be reunited. Begum Nasim Wali Khan of the ANP said that the Durand Line was an artificial border and when General Zia allowed 3.2 million Afghans to cross over, he did away with it. She added that Bacha Khan was buried in Jalalabad to indicate that the Line was artificial and the Pushtun nation was one. Afzal Lala of Pakhtunkhwa Qaumi Party said that the Pushtuns had been divided into four and as long as they remained separated, the Pushtun nation would not come into being. He also recommended that passports between Afghanistan and the Pushtun-populated Pakistan be abolished because it was the country of the Pushtuns. Nargis goes to Hajj Sarerahe reports in the Nawa-e-Waqt that the famous Pakistani dancer Nargis has decided to perform Hajj next year. Nargis was that miracle of big poundage who hit the dance floor and made it shake. Just one thumka (grind) was of 50 horse power, making the audiences tremble in their seats. But she has a heart of a Muslim beating in her ample bosom; income from one dance would be enough for Hajj. Deal with Akbar Bugti Columnist Yasin Rizvi wrote in Khabrain that his 'inside' news was that the government had made another deal with Nawab Akbar Bugti, which would involve paying huge sums of money to the Nawab for the Bugtis recently killed. This was most unfair because Akbar Bugti had a private army and kept a private prison. He trained his men with the help of foreign enemy trainers and made them prey on Pakistani troops. Pakistan and Israel Columnist Dr Zahoor Ahmad Azhar wrote in the Nawa-e-Waqt that Pakistan's enslaved-by-Uncle-Sam intellectuals keep saying that Pakistan is a failed state. Its politicians, officers and others are looting Pakistan with both hands and sending dollars abroad. Despite this, Pakistan's natural wealth has not been exhausted. On the other hand, a small state equal to the stone in a date, Israel, has to be helped with big dollars by the United States. Pakistan is indeed a miracle of God, and Pakistan is Khuda Dad (God given). Despite all this, Israel is called a successful state and not a failed state like Pakistan. Give away Chenab Nagar! The daily Nawa-e-Waqt published a statement by Maulana Ilyas Chinioti of Khatm-e-Nabuwwat fame, that the Qadianis had bought 1034 acres of land in Chak Dhugian for only Rs 10,000 — which was far too little. He appealed to Pakistan from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, that the land should be repossessed from the Qadianis and distributed free to the Sunni population living in Chenab Nagar, formerly Rabwah. Muslims should not have fun Ex-diplomat Dr Yasin Rizvi wrote in Khabrain that Pakistanis were busy celebrating the basant festival and the spring observances, while the Muslims of Kashmir were dying and Palestinians were being killed by the Jews. He said Muslims should not have fun when there were so many tragedies being heaped upon them. He admired the Iranians for not having any fun. Can a woman lead prayer? According to Sarerahe in the Nawa-e-Waqt, Dr Israr Ahmad said that a woman could neither make the call for prayer nor lead a namaz in which men were her followers. According to Dr Javaid Iqbal, however, a woman could lead the prayer and this was a kind of ijtihad that any Muslim should be able to do. Musharraf and the mullahs Writing in the Jang, PPPP leader Mr Iqbal Haider said that General Musharraf has steadily bent in favour of the mullahs. In 1999, he praised Mustafa Kemal Pasha as the great secular leader of Turkey, but at a SAARC conference in 2000 he denied that he had said this. Musharraf then included a mullah in his cabinet at the recommendation of the religious parties, although he had been trained at the very seminary where the Taliban were trained. He decided to sign the CTBT, but backed off from it when a religious party began a campaign against his decision. One extremist religious organisation demanded that all reference to Dr Abdus Salam as a Pakistani hero be removed from textbooks, which he did. Then the parliament began to formulate legislation against honour-killing, which the mullahs did not like. The ruling party was made to oppose the bill. Last but not least, the inclusion of the religion entry in the passport was accepted, once again under pressure from extremist religious parties. Man who killed Allama Ghulam Najafi According to the Nawa-e-Waqt, Shia scholar Allama Ghulam Hussain Najafi was gunned down by two men after a rehri-wala blocked his car as he was headed towards the Jamiatul Muntazar in Lahore. As part of the plan to kill him, the rehri-wala terrorist had set up his cart seven months. Guns had been hidden in the cart. Najafi was nearly killed earlier when an assassin entered his seminary as a student, but was caught before he could do the job. Najafi served the Shia seminary for 25 years, was a prolific writer and often debated with Sunni opponents. In 1989, he was fired upon at a bus stop, but he survived after receiving seven bullets in his body. According to the daily Pakistan, Allama Najafi's daughter, who was driving the carrier wagon, was injured but was able to take him to Ittefaq Hospital where the doctors refused to treat him. After that, she was able to take him to the General Hospital. Imam Masjid rapes teacher According to Khabrain, Lahore Factory Area's Imam Masjid Ismail and his wife trapped a lady teacher Sofia, then forced her to have sex with the cleric. Ismail obtained photographs of the teacher by stealth then blackmailed her into meeting him. In this he was helped by his wife. He also threatened the teacher's family because of his religious authority. The local citizens registered a case of rape against him. Posted by: Fred 2005-05-21 |
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