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Nuggets from the Urdu press
Hizb al-Tahrir leader picked up According to Nawa-e-Waqt, leader of Pakistan Hizb al-Tahir Naveed Butt was picked up in Lahore from a city hotel where he was making a speech about bringing khilafat to Pakistan. He was taken away by intelligence officers together with his friends including one who had been picked up earlier. Hizb al-Tahir gave the call to overthrow Musharraf and install Khilafat in Pakistan. âShe-Devilâ hates theatre As reported in Nawa-e-Waqt a she-devil in Sargodha was haunting the theatre and was preventing the citizens from having a good time. During one performance lights went out and a beautiful woman with feet turned backwards appeared on the stage and started dancing. On this, the actors ran away and there was stampede in the hall. People left without their shoes and all of them had torn clothes because of the struggle to get out first. Earlier, the same churail had thrown stones down at the stage and made the actors run away. Actress Bubbli and Billo were given special medical treatment. In Sargodha, a churail had appeared before a young man earlier and made him lose consciousness for many days. The owner of the theatre had got special warlocks to come and read incantations on the stage together with smoke. Jirga versus NGOs According to Khabrain a jirga of Aurakzai Agency decided that too much obscenity had been spread by NGOs running schools in the Agency and that they should leave immediately or face Rs 10 lakh as fine. The jirga said that it would not be responsible if women working in the NGOs were kidnapped and maltreated. âStick-wieldingâ vandals in Peshawar According to Nawa-e-Waqt, 30 stick-wielding hooligans attacked four hotels in Qissa Khani Bazar in Peshawar and accused the managers of showing obscene cable TV. After that they broke down the hotels and beat up the management. The hotels registered cases against the Pasban organisation of the Jamaat Islami for vandalism but the chief of Pasban, Masaib Gul said that no Pasban member was involved in the crime. Azam Tariqâs quarrel with founderâs family According to Nawa-e-Waqt the leader of banned Sipah Sahaba (now Millat-e-Islamia) Maulana Azam Tariq was at the party headquarters in Jhang when Husnain, son of the founder of Sipah Sahaba, tried to grab his bodyguardâs gun and fire on him. Husnain was convinced that his brother Izharul Haq was killed by Sipah Sahaba the very party his father had founded on the basis of his hatred for the Shia. Azam Tariq is now an MNA whose election is under challenge in the court of law. Maulana Azam Tariq told daily Pakistan that he had no differences with the widow of Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi and that the incident with his gunmen was just a joke. Donât recognise Israel Quoted in Nawa-e-Waqt, special adviser to chief minister Punjab, Syed Muahid Shah, said that if Pakistan recognised Israel it would destroy the Kashmir cause. He did not explain how the Kashmir cause would be destroyed by recognising Israel. Posted by: Paul Moloney 2003-08-14 |
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