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Nuggets from the Urdu Press
 Asma Jahangir working for USWriting in the Nawa-e-Waqt, Manzur Ahmad stated that Asma Jahangir had started her campaign of shameless âmixed marathonâ so that the Islamic honour being dragged through the mud at Guantanamo Bay could be covered. Her only reaction was writing a letter but in the case of the mixed marathon, she decided to come into the streets. Cohen as ideological aggressor Great intellectual Fateh Muhammad Malik wrote in the Nawa-e-Waqt that American author Stephen Cohen, in his book The Idea of Pakistan, had advised Pakistan to submit to the key interests of America and India. This was a kind of aggression of America Sipah-e-Danish (troops of intellect) on Pakistan. Typist in âtrubbelâ According to the daily Pakistan, a typist at the Board of Secondary and Intermediate Education got into trouble after he mistyped two verses of the Quran in the Islamiat question paper. Two verses were typed as one, which was a serious heresy. The Board had to give concession to the students who attempted the question, but the typist was sent an explanation call. The Board stated that its personnel were pakka (true) Muslim and could not think of wilful heresy. Follow Iqbal, rethink shariah Writing in the Jang, Irshad Haqqani stated that according to the great Muslim thinker Allama Muhammad Asad, Islam had to be constantly reinterpreted to fit the exigencies of life. Asad followed the same path as Allama Iqbal, Dr Fazlur Rehman, and todayâs living scholar, Dr Manzur Ahmad. It was no longer useful for Muslim ulema to insist on the form of hudood as practised in ancient times. President Pervez Musharraf in his recent speeches was appealing for the thinking of Allama Iqbal and Allama Asad. It was no longer good for Muslims to insist on the cutting of hands and stoning to death and on half a witness for women. The late Justice SA Rehman had asked for a council of intellectuals to form a Pakistani shariah. The Council of Islamic Ideology was now equipped with rational scholars who could perform the task. Quoted by the Nawa-e-Waqt, PMLN leader Zafarul Haq said that explaining the Quran in line with Western thinking was an insult to the Quran and a blasphemy. Cowardice and bravery Writing in Khabrain Jamaat Islami leader Hafiz Idrees stated that in the case of Zarqawi one heard that he had been wounded, but his followers thanked Allah and announced that they would carry on the war. In the case of Bush, he never got hurt when one Cessna plane caused the White House to vacate in great hurry. One side was brave, the other side was cowardly. Musharrafâs blunder Quoted in the Jang, leader of the Imamia Students Organisation (ISO) Nasir Abbas Shirazi said that President Musharrafâs remarks about Iranâs intention of making a nuclear bomb were most uncalled for and untrue. He said Musharrafâs description of Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon as a determined soldier was also condemnable. (The government denied the remark about Iran.) Quoted in the Nawa-e-Waqt, Qazi Hussain Ahmad warned Musharraf not to play with the sentiments of the Pakistani nation by praising Sharon. Needles out of another girl According to the daily Pakistan, a girl in Khankah Dogran in Punjab had started producing steel needles from her big toe. So far she had expelled more than a hundred needles. The discovery followed a similar phenomenon in Karachi where a girl expelled needles from her fingers. The doctors said that there was no scientific principle according to which human body could produce steel needles. Bari Imam attack was on me! Quoted in the daily Pakistan, the leader of Tehreek Fiqh Jafaria, Agha Syed Hamid Ali Musavi stated that the attack on the Bari Imam shrine was actually meant to kill him. He said there was no Shia-Sunni divide in Pakistan but the enemies of Pakistan were busy trying to create the split. Why tremble if we have the bomb? Quoted by the Nawa-e-Waqt, ex-president Rafiq Tarar said why was the government trembling (thar-thar) if it had the nuclear bomb to throw on the enemy. Speaking on the occasion of Yom-e-Takbir he said the government was daily announcing that its nuclear programme was in safe hands. He said soon a popular wave (awami rela) would come and sweep the government from power. He said Nawaz Sharif was brave because he tested the nuclear device in 1998 despite American pressure. MMA should cut itself off! Quoted in the daily Pakistan, ex-general Zaheerul Islam Abbasi (1995 unsuccessful military coup) said in Rawalpindi that the MMA should unite all the religious elements and strive for the establishment of khilafat on the model of Khilafat-e-Rashida and not go after a baatil political system. Abbasi has renamed his party from Hizbullah to Azmat Islam. Bari Imam terrorism done by America! Quoted in Khabrain, MMA leader Samiul Haq stated that the act of terrorism at Barri Imam Shrine near Islamabad which killed 20 Shias and Barelvis was carried out to stop the nationwide protest being staged against the desecration of the Quran at the American prison in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Bari Imam custodian wants to flee Quoted by the Jang, the custodian of the Barri Imam shrine near Islamabad, Syed Hassan Raza Mashhadi said in Multan that he would leave Pakistan with his family if the killing of Shias did not stop. He said his father Syed Sibtain Raza was killed by sectarian fanatics in 1996 and he himself had escaped death more than once. Posted by: Fred 2005-07-23 |
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