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Some âNuggetsâ from the Pakistani Press
America's not a superpowerQuoted in Khabrain, PML(Q) party chief Chaudhry Shujaat said in Azad Kashmir that he did not believe that America was a superpower. He said in fact he believed that America would soon be broken into pieces. He claimed that a new power bloc composed of France, Germany, China and the Islamic world was about to emerge on world politics. Fazl and Sami to work a deal? According to daily Pakistan, Maulana Fazlur Rehman and Maulana Samiul Haq had both agreed to take back their objection to the LFO and let General Musharraf remain in uniform. In return JUI(F) was to get six ministries in the Jamali government. Maulana Samiul Haq was to get his son Haamidul Haq appointed as minister. JUI-dominated MMA government and coalition in NWFP and Balochistan would be saved from collapse. After that the MMA would be formally laid to rest. Qazi Hussain Ahmad of Jamaat Islami would lead the opposition together with PML(N) I guess Jihad can be ignored if the price is right
Sammy should sink one of our ships Daily Khabrain quoted editor Majeed Nizami as saying on 28 February 2003 that if Saddam Hussein took the bold step of sinking an American ship in the Gulf with a missile the Americans would run away from the region. He said General Musharraf may publicise himself as a liberal but in the eyes of the Americans he was one of the mujahideen. America could order India to attack Pakistanâs Kahuta nuclear installation during the coming war. He said Pakistan was next because the real target of America was Islam. He said if Pakistan wanted to fight America it had to do as China did and Pakistan had to do exactly as China would want it to do. No more dancing girls Daily Nawa-e-Waqt editorialised on the banning of dancing in girls school in Punjab and praised education minister Imran Masud for taking the step of banning all dances including folk dances like luddee. The editorial said it was the first time in the countryâs history that private and state schools had been ordered to end dancing among girls. What a bold step forward! And let that be a lesson to them! According to Nawa-e-Waqt, a woman was caught by seven people from the fields of Qadirpur in Jhang and was stripped naked. They paraded her naked through the streets of the town before tying her to a pole at the central roundabout where she was made to stand naked the whole day. Townspeople pleaded with the men to let her go but to no avail. At the end of the day, they walked off with her clothes. Her husband was suspected by them of having illicit relations with their sister. The end is near Famous scholar of Islam Dr Israr Ahmad was quoted by daily Pakistan as saying that Imam Mehdi was about to descend because the Day of Judgement (qiyamat) was near at hand. He said that Imam Mehdi would defeat the forces of evil and set up the true caliphate of Islam. May the bird of paradise squat on your head As reported in Nawa-e-Waqt, the people of district Daska were thronging the banks of BRB canal after astrologers announced that the legendary bird huma would land on its bank. The huma bird confers rulership by sitting on the head of the lucky man. As a result, the population of Daska had come to the BRB together with astrologers to see if the bird sat on their head to make them prime minister of Pakistan or its general-president. On astrologersâ advice many people had shaved off their heads to make it easy for the bird and were thrusting their bald heads forward in competition with one another. The most enthusiastic were sitting coyly with ice cream balanced on their bald heads to make the bird better inclined to favour them. That would have been an...interesting sight The astrologers held that the great bird was partial to ice cream. Politicians of the local government could not be held back and they began coming to the canal with the excuse of jogging, all the while placing their heads in the best strategic location for the bird to alight on them. A lot of kite-flying too was going on while the populace waited for huma. Posted by: Paul Moloney 2003-04-25 |
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