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Nuggets from the Urdu press
âNoshiâ gets best âmujraâ The most beautiful elder heejra (transvestite) of Dina called Noshi was reported in Khabrain as celebrating his/her birthday with great fanfare. The birthday was secret but the onlookers of the city of Dina and surrounding areas like Gujrat threw banknotes on the dancing transvestites with great abandon. Some transvestites like Bano, Lilly, Reema, Kanwal, etc, performed naked dance at which the onlookers went crazy. Sameera sang English songs and Babblie danced on pieces of glass. Did Hameed Gul inform Taliban? According to Insaf, ex-ISI chief Hameed Gul called totally wrong the accusation made before the US inquiry commission that he had informed the Taliban about the 1998 American Tomahawk missile attack on Afghanistan after American embassies had been blown up in Africa. He said he never went to Afghanistan before 2001 and in the beginning was opposed to the Taliban. He said he did not promise in 1999 that he would forewarn the Taliban before an American invasion. He said the Americans were incompetent and lacked all human values. âNaara-e-Takbeer Allahu Akbarâ in India A column written by Shaukat Janjua in Khabrain narrated that at a SAARC-related meeting in India, he heard Indian trade minister Sikandar Bakht saying that Indians and Pakistanis had been divided by an artificial line and that this line should be undone to make the people one again. On this a member of the Faisalabad chamber of commerce Mian Shafiq, who had immigrated from East Punjab, raised the slogan of Allah Akbar so loud that the Hindus at the meeting were dumb-struck and Sikandar Bakht forgot his speech. The writer went on to say that Pakistanis were unhappy in Pakistan but when they went to India and experienced freedom and a bit of wine they forgot that Hindus and Muslims had never been friends down the centuries. Posted by: Paul Moloney 2004-04-23 |
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