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| Nuggets from the Urdu press |
| 2003-12-20 |
| These nuggets are culled from the Urdu press. They are summarised here without comment. Absurd or ridiculous, TFT takes no responsibility for them Bother over nightclub According to Khabrain, filmstar Mira said that Pakistan should have nightclubs. On this actor Ghulam Mohiuddin said that Pakistani culture would be desecrated; and filmstar Reema said that, as a Muslim citizen of an Islamic republic, she would not visit such a nightclub. Upon this, Mira said that she would not open any nightclub or anything that the great religion of Islam did not allow. She was surprised that the people were so offended at the mention of a nightclub. Serial killer goes free - no witnesses According to Jang, serial killer of two dancing girls of Gujranwala, Maulvi Muhammad Sarwar would go scot-free because witnesses who had earlier deposed against him had all recanted. He was now wanted only in one case of injuring a dancing girl called Musarrat after an attempt to murder her. Moved by religious passion, Maulvi Sarwar went around catching dancing girls outside cinema halls and theatres and hotels and shooting them to death. He shot Sajida alias Dabbi outside a hotel with his pistol but now the witnesses had recanted owing to Sarwar’s priestly status. He had also murdered Razia Bilqis and in that case too the witness had recanted because of the city’s new moral drive. According to Nawa-e-Waqt he will now face two cases in Lahore on the same charges. Just a holy man, doing God’s work Religious thief of cable TV boosters According to Jang, Muhammad Shahid was caught by Race Course Lahore police for stealing cable YTV boosters and selling them. When caught, Shahid said he was doing it on the basis of religion because at home his daughter had run away after watching cable TV. He said he stole cable TV boosters then broke them and threw them in the canal. ‘Panchayat’ favours rapists According to daily Pakistan a Chichawatni panchayat (village council) ruling over the gang-rape of a small girl decided hat the guilty men shall do proselytisation for four months while the father of the raped girl will not step out of the village. The panchayat then got the father to sign a truce between the two parties on the basis of which the police let off the rapists. Jang reported later that when the district officer reached Chichawatni the rapists along with the panchayat ran away and could not be found. |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #2 George Foreman would salute the guy's stand against cable piracy. Nice to see a place where a serial killers get a fair shake. They ought to name a police station after Uday Hussain |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-12-20 4:59:43 PM |
| #1 When caught, Shahid said he was doing it on the basis of religion because at home his daughter had run away after watching cable TV How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm, once they seen TV? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-12-20 11:01:19 AM |