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Nuggets from the Urdu press
Facts about FATA ghairat lobby' Writing in Jang Rauf Klassra noted that the ghairat lobby in Pakistan had celebrated the six FATA parliamentarians who returned from America after refusing to be body-scanned. But the fact was that these FATA gents had approached the American embassy in Islamabad and with great effort had solicited a free visit to the US without telling the Foreign Office. After this information was revealed in the National Assembly the media abstained from printing it to safeguard the ghairat lobby in Pakistan. Taliban on RA Bazaar massacre  Columnist Hamid Mir wrote in Jang that after the two suicide bombings in RA Bazaar in Lahore the Taliban issued a 3-page memorandum in which they owned the act but asked Muslims not to go near security forces and keep away from multinational businesses and NGOs. The memorandum also said that the killings were a revenge for Aafiya Siddiqi and drones and the absence of Islamic system. Imran Khan and Jemima  Writing in Jang columnist Haroon Rashid stated that when his lawyer told Imran Khan that his wife Jemima was no longer willing to live with him, he decided to divorce her. Had he not divorced, he would have got $3 billion under law because a wife asking for divorce has to part with half her fortune. But Imran Khan was an honest man and he let her go. Imran Khan and Nawaz Sharif  Columnist Haroon Rashid wrote in Jang that PMLN got 53,000 votes as against Tehreek Insaf's 9,500 but Nawaz Sharif still chose to get his minions to start a campaign against him. He was sitting on the chest of a Pathan and feared that when the Pathan gets up from under him he will thrash him. Taliban are our asset  Talking to daily Pakistan ex-ISI chief Hamid Gul stated that the Taliban were Pakistan's strategic asset and would remain so. He said after 9/11 Pakistan had sold its honour (izzat) and security and that the country was moving towards civil war. Great scholar Maulana Nadim  Writing in daily Islam Muhammad Faisal Shehzad recounted that the great religious scholar Maulana Abdul Ghafur Nadim who was killed in Karachi along with his son, was a great teacher from Khanewal, South Punjab. He had taken early training from the madrassa of Kabirwala, famous for being the alma mater of Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi founder of Sipah Sahaba. Maulana Nadim was killed while going to the Court to face trial. Maulana Nadim joined Sipah Sahaba in 1988. He suffered from high blood pressure, sugar and hepatitis. After Maulana Azam Tariq had to shift to Jhang he gave Masjid Siddiq Akbar in Karachi in the charge of Maulana Nadim. Americans killed Karachi ulema!  Famous former chief of the ISI Hamid Gul was quoted in Nawa-e-Waqt as saying that the ulema Maulana Nadim and Maulana Jalalpuri were actually killed by the Americans. He said the clerics should stop blaming each other for the killings and should instead close their ranks against America, the real enemy, which was planning to create disorder in Pakistan before leaving the region. No Sufi at Sufi conference  Columnist Haroon Rashid wrote in Jang stated that a Sufi Conference held at Islamabad had no Sufi in it. The only Sufi in the country was his guru Prof Rafeeq Akhtar of Gujjar Khan who has sworn never to visit the corridors of power. Once Ashfaq Ahmad asked Prof Akhtar whether he could become a Sufi to which he got the answer in the negative. Prof Akhtar said: But try to be a good Muslim'. Sectarian killings in DG Khan  Daily Islam reported that a leader of Sipah Sahaba in DG Khan Hafiz Abdullah Chandia became greatly incensed over the blasphemy of a Shia person Nasim Abbas and knifed him to death. After that Chandia surrendered to the police at Choti Zerin upon which the community of the area went to the police station, took hold him, killed him and burnt him at the local chowk. After that Choti Zerin was filled with terror. The local Sipah Sahaba leaders accused the police of having killed Chandia before handing his body over to the mob. Please spare the Hindus?  Writing in Jang Rauf Klassra stated that Chief Justice Lahore High Court Khwaja Sharif had said in court that the Taliban were getting paid by the Hindus to kill Muslims, after which the Hindus in the parliament had protested. The columnist pleaded to spare the 3 million strong Hindu minority in Pakistan who were already the poorest group and were second class citizens. Taliban answer Shehbaz Sharif  Reported in Jang Tehreek Taliban stated that if the Punjab government promised to stop all action against Taliban it will not be attacked. It said that enemies of the Taliban were: PPP, ANP, MQM and the Agencies. Akram Lahori finally let off  Reported in daily Islam the great Shia-killer and leader of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Akram Lahori, was set free along with his companions by a sessions judge in Karachi because of lack of evidence. The trial was held inside the judicial complex of the Central Jail. He was earlier on trial in Multan where he was similarly let off. (He has more cases to face yet.) Release Sufi Muhammad for talks!  Reported in daily Jinnah great religious scholar Dr Israr Ahmad stated that the government should immediately release Maulana Sufi Muhammad and start a dialogue of reconciliation with him. He said the bomb attacks in Lahore had been done by agents of NATO forces. He said if sincere (mukhlis) Taliban were not engaged in talks Pakistanis will suffer in the Hereafter. The same report in daily Pakistan said that Dr Israr had added the Taliban to NATO as terrorists. He also said that Zionist imperialism wanted to grab the Islamic world. Shehbaz Sharif and Jamia Naeemia  Writing in daily Islam Hafiz Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi stated that Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif spoke in favour of the Taliban while addressing a gathering in Jamia Naeemia, the big madrassa of the Barelvi faith. Ashrafi noted that Mr Sharif was accompanied by the sahibzada' (son of the slain Mufti Sarfaraz Naeemi) who had unleashed destruction on the grave and library of the late Deobandi scholar of Faisalabad, Maulana Muhammad Ziaul Haq Qasimi. Great scholar Mufti Jalalpuri Writing in daily Islam Maulana Allahwasaya recalled that Mufti Saeed Ahmad Jalalpuri killed in Karachi on 11 March 2010 belonged to Tehsil Shujabad near Multan and was the son of a great religious scholar. He got his early religious training at a Zahir Pir madrassa South Punjab before graduating to Madrassa Kabirwala where the founder of Sipah Sahaba also got his training - before coming to the Banuri Town madrassa in Karachi and was noted by the great teacher there Maulana Yusuf Ludhianvi. Mufti Jalalpuri was the great enemy of Qadianis and led the Khatm-e-Nabuwwat Movement against them Posted by: john frum 2010-05-08 |
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