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| 2004-05-07 | ||
| Our jawans are for khilafat According to daily Pakistan, Major General (Retd) Zaheerul Islam Abbasi told an audience at Jama Masjid Ghulam Rasul in Gujranwala that there was no organisation named Al Qaeda and no one named Osama bin Laden. They existed only in the CNN. He said that khilafat did not exist in any Islamic state but if the people sided with him and his party Azmat Islam Movement then he had no doubt that it would come. He said he was court-martialled for having worked for khilafat. He said the Taliban were brave and did not lay down arms like General Niazi in East Pakistan. He added that today the army officers were all secular but the jawans (soldiers) were for khilafat. General Zaheerul Islam was caught and punished for treason in 1995. His party Azmat Islam was earlier called Hizbullah. Nargis did not dance! According to Khabrain filmstar and dancer Nargis did not dance during a play in a local theatre in Lahore. The audience had bought tickets for Rs 500 and Rs 1000 in the expectation that she would break into dance during the scenes. When she did not take the floor, the house became angry and started breaking the furniture. Nargis was actually to dance on four songs but the government had sent in a team of inspectors to see that no dance would take place. Every time there was a song the audience called out for her to dance but when she did not they resorted to violence. Many people saved their lives by running away. Protest with ‘heejras’ and donkeys According to Nawa-e-Waqt, the Cricket Welfare Association of Sant Nagar in Lahore took out a procession to protest the defeat of the Pakistani team in matches against the visiting team. The Association was of the opinion that Pakistan Cricket Board had not been able to stop the national team from being defeated through a conspiracy. The procession was spearheaded by heejras (eunuchs) and donkeys to show the low regard in which the protesters held the Cricket boards. Blasphemer turns wild According to Nawa-e-Waqt, in Dhariala Jalib near Pind Dadan Khan a PPP leader Diwan Hashmat first blasphemed against the Holy Prophet PBUH during a gathering in a mosque in Pindi Syedan then
Quoted in Nawa-e-Waqt, chief of Balochistan National Party Sardar Ataullah Mengal said that if investment in Gwadar was against the wishes of the Baloch the investors would not go back alive. He said Gwadar was being made for the Americans. The Americans would run away but the Punjabis would be unable to flee. He said the Punjabis were determined to convert the Baloch into a minority in their own province. The Baloch would not allow their identity to be destroyed in the name of investment, he said.
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| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #4 It's probably more politically correct to criticise the Americans than it is to target the Chinese in Pakistan |
| Posted by: Paul Moloney 2004-05-07 6:51:18 PM |
| #3 i thought Gwadar was made for our lovely friends in the Chinese Navy. |
| Posted by: Liberalhawk 2004-05-07 2:11:56 PM |
| #2 He said Gwadar was being made for the Americans. The Americans would run away but the Punjabis would be unable to flee. Well, I know that I just can't get up in the morning without a nice fresh bowl of gwadar. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2004-05-07 11:31:31 AM |
| #1 On this Hashmat became an absconder I love these translations. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-05-07 7:17:13 AM |