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Nuggets from the Urdu Press
Declare America terrorist According to Nawa-e-Waqt, lawyer MD Tahir went to High Court with the writ that Israel and America be declared terrorists and that people be restrained from calling mujahideen terrorists because doing so would completely distort history in Pakistan. Judge proves his Islamic credentials According to daily Insaf, a Christian named Williams who worked in a hospital took home an unclaimed baby - whose mother had died - with the intention of bringing him up. A group of Muslims went to court protesting that a Christian could not bring up a Muslim child. To his great credit and blessing, the judge handed down the verdict that Williams should give the baby back to the hospital although the child was without parents. UK Muslims donât study According to Jang, Pakistanis in the UK were the only community with a bad record in education. School-going children spent more time away from school when they should be attending classes. According to an official report, Pakistani children spent 40 percent of the school-term absenting themselves from school. This was put down to the parents taking them to Pakistan. After each vacation the children took time returning to school. Most of the Pakistani parents belonged to villages in Pakistan and put little value on education. Women released on blood-money According to Nawa-e-Waqt, two women in Lahoreâs Kot Lakhpat jail were released after payment of blood-money (Rs 2.7 lakh) from her own pocket by chief ministerâs adviser Dr Faiza Asghar. Many women had completed their sentence but were not released because no one paid their blood money agreed between the accused and the family of the dead person. It was revealed that countless such cases were pending in jails and that there were 7,000 women in jails, 40 percent of them along with their children. Lincoln was a Muslim! Great columnist Haroonur Rashid stated in Jang that American president Abraham Lincoln was secretly a Muslim and was suspect in the eyes of many Americans. Lincoln was in the mould because he gave freedom to countless blacks in America. He was perhaps killed because he was a Muslim. Posted by: Paul Moloney 2004-04-30 |
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