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Nuggets from the Urdu press
Chaudhry Nisar against MFN to India
PMLN leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan was quoted by Nawa-e-Waqt that the intent of giving India the Most favoured Nation (MFN) status by Pakistan had aroused intense reservations in the breast of his party. His leader Nawaz Sharif had earlier favoured closer relations with India.
 
Hold on to Nazriya Pakistan!
Reported in Nawa-e-Waqt a number of speakers at a seminar including Qazi Husain Ahmad and Sardar Atique stated that if Pakistan did not want to be defeated by any power in the world it will have top hold on to Nazriya Pakistan (Pakistan Ideology). They said water war (abi jang) was worse than nuclear war (aytmi jang) referring to the stopping of Pakistani waters by India. Famous ISI ex-chief Hamid Gul made special appearance.
 
Jamaatud Dawa against MFN!
Quoted in Nawa-e-Waqt leader of Jamaatud Dawa Abdur Rehman Makki stated that giving the MFN status to India would put paid to Kashmir independence movement and will also destroy national security. He said Indian businessmen will actually be RAW agents who will strengthen the destructive network of CIA agent Raymond Davis in Pakistan. He said India never accepted independent Pakistan and that Hina Khar was an inexperienced foreign minister.
 
Fazlur Rehman rejects MFN!
Famous cleric of Pakistan sand JUI leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman told Jinnah that he was surprised by the pledge of Pakistan to grant MFN status to India. He said his Kashmir Committee was not taken into confidence. He said all parties should be united on Kashmir.
 
Strange conference to defend Pakistan
WPriting in Jinnah Khushnood Ali Khan stated that JUI's Maulana Samiul Haq organised an all-parties conference aimed at ending Saudi and Iranian differences in Pakistan. Not many turned up. Imran Khan too did not turn up. But Hafiz Saeed was the most revered person in the conference while Maulana Samiul Haq was acknowledged as merely the teacher of the mujahideen. Ex-ISI Brig Yusuf was there too as were ex-ISI chief Hamid Gul and politician Sheikh Rashid. The conference did not take off because of Samiul Haq's refusal to postpone it to after the funeral of Nusrat Bhutto.
 
A Musharraf-Imran government?
Famous editor Khushnood Ali Khan wrote in Jinnah that there was rumour that the powers that be will install a Musharraf-Imran Khan government in Pakistan in which Musharraf would specialise in collecting overseas aid plus money given by expat Pakistanis while Imran Khan will focus on ending corruption in Pakistan.
 
Why call the judges My Lord?
Reported in daily Pakistan lawyer AK Dogar had approached the Lahore High Court with a petition that it should be banned to address any judge in the judiciary as My Lord which was against the edicts of Islam and equated the judge with God. The High Court asked the federal and provincial governments to defend themselves on the practice of addressing the judges as My Lord.
 
America goes for oil in Arab Spring!
An intellectually gifted TV anchor and acknowledged genius wrote in Express that the US was after the oil of Libya but the people of Libya were willing to become the hired killers of the West against their own ruler. There will be no democracy in Tunis, Egypt and Libya but the oil of Libya will be out of Muslim hands. If there is no democracy in oil-less Tunis and Egypt how can there be democracy in oil-rich Libya?
 
Gadafi not so great
Writing in Express famous intellectual Oria Maqbul Jan stated that Gadafi was not so great after all. He was born in a Bedou home and went to a madrassa for a time before getting selected in the army. He also spent some time in London bust in very dubious activities, then went back to join Hizbut Tahrir. He later staged a coup as a colonel and became ruler of Libya surrounding himself with beautiful hired white nurses.
 
A new PPP?
Khushnood Ali Khan revealed the secret in Jinnah that on the 40 days (chaliswan) of Begum Nusrat Bhutto a new PPP would announce itself to counter the ruling PPP which will be headed by her daughter-in-law Ghinwa, followed by Mumtaz Bhutto, Dr Mubashir Hasan, Nahid Khan and Safdar Abbasi. Ghinwa fell out with Zardari on the question of starting the funeral march of Nusrat Bhutto from her house which is the house of Nusrat Bhutto's eldest son.
 
Libya war is Western plot!
Daily Express held a seminar in which famous speakers such as Prof Sajjad Nasir, Ambassador Javed Hussain and General Nishat came to the conclusion that the West had destroyed a Muslim state while Ambassador Khalid Mehmood insisted that Gadafi gave nothing valuable to his country in his 40 years rule.
 
Dr AQ Khan versus Imran Khan
Daily Pakistan quoted the father of the Pakistani nuclear bomb Dr AQ Khan as asking famous emerging leader Imran Khan to tell him what solution he had for the problems of Pakistan. He said it was Pakistan's misfortune that no one today was willing to take Pakistan out if its crises. (He was expecting to be 'made active' in politics.)
 
Hafiz Saeed rails against MFN
The strongest man of Pakistan Hafiz Saeed of banned Jamaatud Dawa told Jinnah that giving MFN status to India was like binding Pakistan hand and foot and throwing it in front of India. He said such plots should be abandoned forthwith. He said Bharat was not most favoured (pasandida) but most disliked (napasandida) country for all Pakistanis. He said rulers conspiring to buy electricity from India were Indian agents.
 
Gadafi invited Indira Gandhi
Daily Mashriq revealed that Gadafi was a most unpredictable person subject to changing moods and he was not consistent in policy-making. He once sent his wife to India to invite prime minister Indira Gandhi to Libya. He once handed over his embassy in New Delhi to Libyan students. India helped Libya greatly in the 1970s decade and Indira Gandhi visited Libya in 1984.
 
ISI paid renegade Karzai!
Famous columnist Hamid Mir wrote in Jang that President Karzai of Afghanistan studied in Simla University in India, then became a minister in the pre-Taliban Rabbani Government while he had contacts in Pakistan's ISI who also gave money (wazifa) to his father living in Quetta. After America invaded Afghanistan the ISI and CIA joined to send Karzai to Kabul through Quetta after CIA pledged that Karzai will defend the interests of Pakistan.
 
Judges get illegal concessions
Reported in Mashriq two retired judges ex-chief justice of the Lahore High Court Khwaja Sharif and ex-judge of the Supreme Court Khalil Ramday were living in official residences even after retirement and were using free concessions like oil and official cars in addition to residences. The Punjab government was getting ready to organise raids to stop the facilities of the two judges as well as a lot of other ex-employees who had retained their facilities.
Posted by: trailing wife 2011-11-27
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