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| Nuggets from the Urdu press |
| 2004-07-02 |
| Wasim Akram acquitted in wine ad case According to Khabrain a Lahore civil judge let great Pakistani cricketer Wasim Akram off after he apologised for the Indian wine advertisement in which he had mistakenly appeared. A Lahore citizen had gone to court saying that when he saw the ad he was so physically jolted that he deserved to be paid Rs 25,000 as compensation by the cricketer. Wasim Akram apologised after a year of litigation in which he must have spent a lot of money on lawyers. The judge thought that the litigant had not really suffered any loss and therefore did not deserve to be paid Rs 25,000. Jews and Hindus do sectarian killings! According to Nawa-e-Waqt, Jamaat Islami leader Qazi Hussain Ahmad said at the Shia institution Jamia Al Muntazar that there was no Shia-Sunni conflict in Pakistan. He said sectarian killings were being done in the country by Hindus and Jews. Thirty-one ulema from all over Pakistan agreed to this and signed a statement. The paper also reported that religious students would arrange protesting camps against the Aga Khan Lover serves purgative at wedding Sarerahe wrote in Nawa-e-Waqt that one heart-broken lover served laxative to wedding party that had arrived to take his beloved away. After drinking the sharbat, the wedding party ran for the toilet of which there were not many in Chak Jamalpura. The lover looked on with satisfaction as the guests shoved each other aside to avail of any secluded corner to relieve themselves. The column narrated another incident in which Iskandar Mirza when a deputy commissioner of Peshawar had served the Pushtun followers of Abdul Ghaffar Khan with laxatives in sharbat and made them defecate endlessly. Lahore goes after Internet cafés Daily Khabrain editorialised that Lahore’s Ravi Town nazim of administration activated the police and caught boys watching indecent movies in the Internet cafés of Kot Khwaja Said and Chah Kiran and caught 17 men whom he let off after warning. But he warned that he would punish the Internet cafés in future if they showed obscenity. The editorial welcomed the action and recommended more strict action. Magic is okay for marital life According to a survey in daily Pakistan Islam was opposed to magic and magicians were to be beheaded with a sword according to Imam Shafei while Imam Malik and Imam Abu Hanifa thought them kafir. If Ayat al-Kursi is read in a house then Satan cannot enter it for 30 days and magicians cannot enter it for 30 days. But magic was allowed for enhancing love between couples. |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #4 They seem to have the legal victim thing down tho. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-07-02 11:32:22 AM |
| #3 Give 'em 24 hours, heh... |
| Posted by: .com 2004-07-02 10:26:06 AM |
| #2 This batch is almost mundane, compared to others in the past; no islamic leprechauns, no honor killing gone crazy, no blasphemer beaten to death by the police. Is Pakland becoming a normal country?... No? Hum, thought so. |
| Posted by: Anonymous5089 2004-07-02 10:24:25 AM |
| #1 Mmmmmmmm....purgative. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-07-02 8:54:59 AM |