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Nuggets from the Urdu press
Taslima should marry Rushdie Sarerahe in Nawa-e-Waqt stated that Bangladeshâs apostate writer Taslima Nasreen who had become a traitor to Pakistan by writing in favour of the Hindu community now wanted to end her exile in the West and buy a house in Calcutta in India where she thought that people loved her. Sarerahe thought that Indian Muslims in Calcutta would hate her as much as the Muslims of Bangladesh and she would not be safe there. The best thing for her to do would be to go back to the West and marry Salman Rushdie and live with him. Religious leaders are good! Writing in Jang, Saeed Siddiqi stated that politics could not be separated from religion or it will go wrong. He quoted the Quaid at Sibi darbar saying that that Pakistanâs democracy would be based on the golden principles of Islam. The writer added that most clerical leaders of India did not side with the Quaid although all of them â like Maulana Ataullah Shah Bukhari, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and Hussain Ahmad Madni â were pious leaders of great integrity. After 1947, Pakistan accepted all the clerics who had sided with Congress and has given them the respect they deserved. Sectarian conflict in Gilgit According to daily Din, shops closed down in Gilgit city after preachers from both sides of the sectarian divide exhorted their followers to attack each other. One boy was shot dead while four men were wounded during a shootout that ensued. The incident was one of a series taking place in Gilgit. Paramilitary force was called out. Thirty-nine honour-killings in thirty days According to Jang, Sindh killed 39 people in one month under karo-kari (suspicion of dishonour). In the month February, rural Sindh saw 39 murders out of which 27 were women. Out of the 27 women done to death, 13 were killed by their husbands while the rest were killed by brothers and fathers. The murdered women were not given normal burial. Their corpses remained unwashed and they were buried in the desert sand without any trace of the grave. In one case a brother killed his sister and buried her in sand while she was still alive. Quranic verses in textbooks According to Nawa-e-Waqt, National Assembly saw the opposition walk out when the education minister said that certain Quranic verses were removed from an 11th class textbook of biology. Later it was said that the verses that were removed related to Jews and Christians as permanent enemies of the Muslims and the obligation of jihad on all Muslims. All the opposition parties including the PPP staged a walkout while the MMA ladies staged a protest in front of the Speakerâs chair. Posted by: Paul Moloney 2004-04-02 |
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