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| Nuggets from the Urdu press |
| 2003-08-14 |
| Hizb al-Tahrir leader picked up According to Nawa-e-Waqt, leader of Pakistan Hizb al-Tahir Naveed Butt was picked up in Lahore from a city hotel where he was making a speech about bringing khilafat to Pakistan. He was taken away by intelligence officers together with his friends including one who had been picked up earlier. Hizb al-Tahir gave the call to overthrow Musharraf and install Khilafat in Pakistan. ‘She-Devil’ hates theatre As reported in Nawa-e-Waqt a she-devil in Sargodha was haunting the theatre and was preventing the citizens from having a good time. During one performance lights went out and a beautiful woman with feet turned backwards appeared on the stage and started dancing. On this, the actors ran away and there was stampede in the hall. People left without their shoes and all of them had torn clothes because of the struggle to get out first. Earlier, the same churail had thrown stones down at the stage and made the actors run away. Actress Bubbli and Billo were given special medical treatment. In Sargodha, a churail had appeared before a young man earlier and made him lose consciousness for many days. The owner of the theatre had got special warlocks to come and read incantations on the stage together with smoke. Jirga versus NGOs According to Khabrain a jirga of Aurakzai Agency decided that too much obscenity had been spread by NGOs running schools in the Agency and that they should leave immediately or face Rs 10 lakh as fine. The jirga said that it would not be responsible if women working in the NGOs were kidnapped and maltreated. ‘Stick-wielding’ vandals in Peshawar According to Nawa-e-Waqt, 30 stick-wielding hooligans attacked four hotels in Qissa Khani Bazar in Peshawar and accused the managers of showing obscene cable TV. After that they broke down the hotels and beat up the management. The hotels registered cases against the Pasban organisation of the Jamaat Islami for vandalism but the chief of Pasban, Masaib Gul said that no Pasban member was involved in the crime. Azam Tariq’s quarrel with founder’s family According to Nawa-e-Waqt the leader of banned Sipah Sahaba (now Millat-e-Islamia) Maulana Azam Tariq was at the party headquarters in Jhang when Husnain, son of the founder of Sipah Sahaba, tried to grab his bodyguard’s gun and fire on him. Husnain was convinced that his brother Izharul Haq was killed by Sipah Sahaba the very party his father had founded on the basis of his hatred for the Shia. Azam Tariq is now an MNA whose election is under challenge in the court of law. Maulana Azam Tariq told daily Pakistan that he had no differences with the widow of Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi and that the incident with his gunmen was just a joke. Don’t recognise Israel Quoted in Nawa-e-Waqt, special adviser to chief minister Punjab, Syed Muahid Shah, said that if Pakistan recognised Israel it would destroy the Kashmir cause. He did not explain how the Kashmir cause would be destroyed by recognising Israel. |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #7 "Actress Bubbli and Billo were given special medical treatment." Cool. Any left? |
| Posted by: mojo 2003-8-15 12:05:50 AM |
| #6 Secret Master; the guy who translates these stories into English has does it with tongue in cheek, but the original stories in Urdu are usually written seriously. |
| Posted by: Paul Moloney 2003-8-14 7:35:59 PM |
| #5 DAMN that Andrew Lloyd Weber!!! |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2003-8-14 1:43:58 PM |
| #4 Do you ever get the feeling that a lot of the Urdu press releases are written with the author's tongue pressed firmly into his cheek? I mean, common say "He did not explain how the Kashmir cause would be destroyed by recognizing Israel." with a straight face! |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2003-8-14 1:03:31 PM |
| #3 When will Bubbli and Billo be coming to a theatre near us? They can bring the she devil too if they want. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-8-14 12:39:16 PM |
| #2 Well, now we know where that Afghan hash is going. |
| Posted by: Steve 2003-8-14 10:10:48 AM |
| #1 No Elvis or UFO |
| Posted by: Tokyo Taro 2003-8-14 8:30:21 AM |