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Nuggets from the Urdu press
America will target Pakistan and Saudi Arabia! Ex-ISI chief Hamid Gul was quoted by daily Din as saying that in the coming days America would target Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. He said although President Bush hated Saudi crown prince Abdullah he was not in favour of changing the monarchy in Saudi Arabia. He added that bomb explosions in Najaf and Riyadh were planned and executed by MOSSAD. He said the Islamic countries had shown weakness at the OIC summit in Malaysia for which they would suffer soon. Pipliyas do it again! Daily Nawa-e-Waqt reported from Muridke that a feast given by Pakistan Peopleâs Party assembly member Haji Rana Sarfaraz was ruined when the workers of the PPP leapt from their seats and fell on the food. So violent was their lust for food that it fell on the ground and much of it was smeared on the faces and clothes of the party rank and file. As a result many leaders were not able to open their fast and went home to do so. Maududi and Qadiani leader Daily Khabrain reported that during a seminar on Allama Iqbal, Jamaat Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad lost his temper when scholar Fateh Muhammad Malik said that the Jamaat Founder, Abul Ala Maududi, had views on feudalism that were close to the views of the Qadiani leader, Mirza Bashir Mahmud. He got up from his seat and called the whole thing a pack of lies. After that, Jamaat Islami activists disrupted the seminar. Fateh Muhammad Malik hurriedly left the seminar. Blasphemer given death in Bahawalpur According to Nawa-e-Waqt, a sessions judge in Bahawalpur Mukhtar Khokhar decided to fine one Niaz Rs 50 thousand and hang him for insulting the Holy Prophet PBUH. Niaz was sitting at a tea stall in his village when one called Baqir came and said Salam to him. He did not reply to the Salam upon which he was reprimanded. In the argument that followed, Niaz was said to have offered insult. According to daily Pakistan the blasphemer was an extremely poor man whose tribe was known for its backwardness. He was punished because he did not answer the Salam of a man belonging to the superior tribe. After the quarrel a religious leader declared that he had blasphemed. The sessions judge followed what the people said. Honour killings in Pakistan According to Khabrain, NWFP took first place as a killer of women in the name of honour. The NWFP killed 2044 women in 2003. Punjab killed many but only 316 cases were registered under which only 50 killers were apprehended. All the women in Punjab were killed by their brothers. In Sindh 411 cases were registered and most women were done to death in the karo-kari system. Posted by: Paul Moloney 2003-12-25 |
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