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| 2004-06-18 |
| These nuggets are culled from the Urdu press. They are summarised here without comment. Absurd or ridiculous, TFT takes no responsibility for them Zia was right, Musharraf is right! Speaking to Insaf, religion minister Ijazul Haq said that in 1979 General Zia was right in doing what he did and in 1999 General Musharraf was right in what he was doing. One imposed religion in Pakistan, the other removed its extremist edge and abandoned the Taliban. He said Taliban were good people who did not kill anyone. In fact they had created conditions of peace in Afghanistan and were not involved in any kind of terrorism. Their only fault was their refusal to hand over Osama bin Laden to America. Moaning over Indian elections Writing in Jang, Irshad Haqqani stated that Pakistanis too are capable of voting fairly in elections and they showed this capability in 1970 when they simply uprooted the entrenched feudal interests in West Pakistan by voting for the middle class leaders. He said that the people of Pakistan were ready to repeat the voting of 1970 and 1977 if only the elites of Pakistan were to allow them unrigged elections. Sindh ignores court on ‘karo-kari’ According to Khabrain, after Sindh High Court banned karo-kari (honour-killing) in the province the cases of karo-kari actually increased. In the month of April 2004, in all, 18 women and 12 men were done to death for karo-kari. In the year 2003, Sindh killed 1261 people and out of that number 838 were women. Parliament in the past had refused to legislate against honour killing because of proud custom. Politician does hat-trick of stealing electricity According to Khabrain, ex-MNA Haji Muhammad Boota of Multan was caught for the third time stealing electricity from WAPDA. This time too he had resorted to the same trick, connecting his house with the pole directly through wires and running a number of air-conditioners without being billed. Haji Boota is a veteran politician who knows that politics is meant for this kind of activity. Pakistani policemen do terrorism According to Jang, the suicide-bombers who blew up the Ashura procession in Quetta this year, killing scores of Shias were from Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Abdu Nabi and Hidayatullah. Both had trained in Afghanistan in the Al Qaeda-Taliban camps. They plotted the terrorist act in Karachi in Nasirabad in the house of police constable Ghulam Haider. The police got the first clue when they discovered a CD depicting the two suicide bombers in martyrs’ outfit. Daily Nawa-e-Waqt wrote that the CD was sent to the police by an unknown source in which the two terrorists confessed that in July 2003 they had killed over 50 Shias at an Imambargah in Quetta. Their suicide bombing killed 47 people during ashura in March 2004 in Quetta. The Shia community of Karachi accused the police and antiterrorist force (ATF) too of firing on the Shias. The latest act of terrorism which killed a number of Shias in Karachi’s Haideri mosque was carried out by a police constable who was a member of Jaish-e-Muhammad and wanted to become a martyr by killing the infidels. In the murder of the American journalist Daniel Pearl too the involvement of a policeman had come to light. Why he killed four children According to daily Pakistan, the serial murderer of four children in Muridke near Lahore, Hafiz Arshad, (who knows the Quran by heart) said that he trapped and killed innocent children because his chilla (trance) was not completed and the witches and female jinns tortured him for human sacrifice. Because of his unfinished chilla Hafiz Arshad was in great pain till his spiritual leader told him that he could get out of it by making sacrifices with children’s blood and organs. Malang Imdad Hussain said that the fourth child was killed by him to get his disciple freed from police custody. A murder after his disciple’s arrest would mean that he was not involved. |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #5 No, no, look at the one about the electricity. Haji Boota is a veteran politician who knows that politics is meant for this kind of activity. Come on, that has to be the best one. |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2004-06-18 1:35:11 PM |
| #4 I'm speechless too, .com. Apparently, knowing the Quran by heart doesn't deliver one from Witches and female Jinns. Christians have been promised this kind of protection since the first century, although it was forgotten by the time the witch trials in England and America had started. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2004-06-18 12:43:13 PM |
| #3 "...Hafiz Arshad, (who knows the Quran by heart) said that he trapped and killed innocent children because his chilla (trance) was not completed and the witches and female jinns tortured him for human sacrifice..." Hey - do NOT bother me when I'm chilla... Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2004-06-18 10:50:48 AM |
| #2 No dhinga-mushti this week, but the murder of 3 kids to rid oneself of djinns and then a fourth child to spring your "disciple" from jug almost makes up for it. Allan be praised. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2004-06-18 10:46:37 AM |
| #1 "Why he killed four children" Words momentarily fail me... Definitely somewhere between +7th Century and -7th Century. Right in there, somewhere. I'm pretty sure of it. Yep. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-06-18 6:08:54 AM |