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| 2003-11-27 |
| ‘Mullaiyat’ in Pakistan Daily Jang magazine conducted a survey on mullaiyat (clergy power) in Pakistan. Readers variously said that the clergy power was encouraged by America but now America was protesting. That democracy was overturned by the army and the clergy was not considered worthy by the people who did not vote for them. That people were opting for the clergy power because the politicians had betrayed them and the West was hunting down the Muslims. That the clergy power was the real power and democracy was a Western import that will not work. Another Tablighi gathering in Sheikhupura According to Nawa-e-Waqt a mammoth congregation on the pattern of Raiwind was organised by Tablighi Jamaat during which the food was plentiful and hundreds of thousands of votaries including foreign guests cried profusely when listening to the speakers reminding them of their sins and neglect of obligations under Islam. Hafiz Saeed declares war Quoted by Nawa-e-Waqt, leader of banned Lashkar-e-Tayba and head of the new Jamaat Dawa said at a mammoth gathering at his Markaz Yarmuk at Pattoki (18 Oct) that the generals of Pakistan should not abandon jihad if they wanted to confront the conspiracies against Islam and Pakistan. He said if the mujahideen went on fighting they would be given khilafat and government. He said it was wrong and against the teachings of the Quran to exchange cultural and trade delegations between Pakistan and India. He said it was his duty to get the jugular of Pakistan (Kashmir) freed from the claw of India. He said he would not allow the Ayodhiya temple to the built on Babri mosque in India. Hameed Gul said the enemy would be fought not with technology but with passion for war. Hafiz Saeed said that military uniform could be torn apart and the chair of domination could be broken. Sipah Sahaba warns Qazi According to Khabrain, Muhammad Ahmad Ludhianvi of defunct Sipah Sahaba told audiences in Hasalpur that the government had failed to catch the accused in the murder of the party chief Azam Tariq and it should remember that the party will go on agitating as long as the killers were not caught. He said Qazi Hussain Ahmad of Jamaat Islami should not become an SHO and remain within limits. He said why had not the government put the Shia leader Sajid Naqvi in the dock for the murder of Azam Tariq? (Naqvi has since been arrested.) |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #3 *snort* Watch the coffee! |
| Posted by: eLarson 2003-11-27 11:10:22 AM |
| #2 mullaiyat? Isn't that a bad hairstyle? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-11-27 9:46:36 AM |
| #1 This is totally freaky. These people are thinking like 1200 BC. Like Mnn had a brain fart. |
| Posted by: Lucky 2003-11-27 1:15:35 AM |