| Original, unexpurgated headline. Sounds like an asterisk on the pages of the War on Terror, doesn't it? |
| Tossed out at what altitude? ... |
 A Pakistani national who boarded the special plane carrying Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz from Kabul to Islamabad has been detained at Kabul airport, Geo news channel reported on Sunday.
| "Stick 'em up, Chaudry! Yer under arrest!" |
Security officials accompanying the prime minister detained Shafiullah, who was sitting in the premierâs plane as it prepared to leave Kabul for Pakistan, the channel reported. There was no official word on the incident.
| Ummm... Chief? We seem to have an extra on the headcount..." |
Shafiullah introduced himself as a staff member at the Pakistan Embassy in Kabul and told security agents in the plane that he had brought in the luggage of ministers and officials and could not get out of the plane as the doors had been shut on him, Geo reported.
"So I'll just have to go back to Pakland with you!"
"Mahmoud! Throw him out!" |
The man was asked to jump out of the plane, as the stairs had been taken away, the report said, adding that Pakistan Embassy officials in Kabul took the man into custody for questioning. The luggage belonging to ministers and officials were also thrown out of the plane, the report added. The bags were lying at Kabul airport and were being checked, the channel said.
"Whoa! What have we here?"
"Explosives?"
"No, this!"
"Wow! See-thru! And crotchless! Hubba hubba!" |
Later, a government spokesman called reports of the incident incorrect.
"That ain't the way it happened!"
"Who's tellin' this story? Me or you?" |
âThe man in question is a regular employee at the Pakistan Embassy in Kabul and could not leave the plane in time, as the stairs had already been removed from the aircraft,â the spokesman said.
| So that is the way it happened? |
The embassy official had boarded the aircraft to drop some luggage off, he said, adding that since the stairs were removed by that time, the official got out of the aircraft with the help of the ground crew.
"Yo! You there! The ground crew! Here! Catch!"
"Aaaaaiiiiieeeee!" |
The spokesman also called reports of âsuspicious luggageâ being found in the aircraft âtotally baselessâ.
| "Nope. Nope. Wudn't see-thru at all!" |
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