Great leader Imran Khan was reported by daily Waqt as saying that both Zardari and Nawaz Sharif were 'pakka' American agents. He said when he became prime minister he would bring a case at the UN against India's grabbing of Pakistan's waters.
Sheikh Rashid, apologise for Lal Masjid!
Columnist Tayyaba Zia Cheema wrote in Nawa-e-Waqt that Sheikh Rashid was nearly killed in Rawalpindi by terrorists because he had supported Musharraf's operation against Lal Masjid in 2007. She asked him to apologise sincerely for doing so. It was wrong to accuse PML-N because the attempt on his life was androoni sazish (internal plot).
Aafiya lied in court
Writing in Jang, Nazir Naji stated that Pakistan that was aroused about the trial of Aafiya Siddiqi was not in favour of speaking out for a girl in Lower Dir who was lashed in public by the Taliban. He stated that Aafiya had lied to the New York court when she said that she did not know how to fire a gun. The prosecutors brought proof that she had gone to a shooting club in the US and hired a gun and bought bullets and practised with an automatic weapon in the club range.
India and America did it!
Top columnist Haroon Rashid wrote in Jang that Sheikh Rashid was wrong in accusing the PML-N for trying to target-kill him in the run-up to the by-elections in Rawalpindi. It was quite clear that either India or the US had tried to kill him. He said it could be one of the terrorist groups too angry with him.
Army chief invites editor!
Chief editor Khushnood Ali Khan of Jinnah met army chief General Kayani at a dinner in honour of Palestinian leader Mehmud Abbas in Islamabad and was warmly greeted. The chief said to chief editor, 'I read your writings, but why don't you call on me?' The chief editor also wrote that Shehbaz Sharif's second meeting with the army chief was 'zabardast'.
Taliban will be no more!
Writing in Jang Haroon Rashid stated that once sitting next to Imran Khan in 1999 he heard a grand old man who had 8,000 pages of Ghazwa-e-Hind (Prophet's war on India) in his trunk say that the soon martial law would be imposed and that the Taliban would be no more. He said Hazrat Umar had taken the flag of Islam from their hands.
Joe Biden to Ch Pervaiz Elahi
Writing in Jang, Nazir Naji wrote that when Joe Biden was still chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee he visited Pakistan and asked Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi about the projected results of the 2008 elections. Ch Sahib said that that his party would win, on which Mr Biden shot back, 'In that case America will not accept the results of the elections'. Ch Sahib narrated the incident to the columnist.
Aslam Beg and PPP
Columnist Nazir Naji wrote in Jang that army chief General Aslam Beg had foretold the result of the elections in 1988 by saying that he did not want the PPP to come to power, so they put together what was called the IJI with all the parties opposed to it in order to prevent it from gaining majority votes.
With India, only jihad!
Jamaatud Dawa periodical Jarrar quoted Hafiz Said as saying that with India only jihad will work and there was a national consensus on jihad. Addressing a gathering of hundreds of thousands in Karachi, he said America was breaking up. He said Indian minister Chidambaram should talk to Jamaatud Dawa and not to Pakistan government.
Send the mullahs to America!
Columnist Nazir Naji wrote in Jang that the JUI clerics had collectively asked the government to send delegations (wufud) to the US asking Washington to let Dr Aafiya Siddiqi return to Pakistan without being punished for terrorism. Naji thought this was a signal that the clerics should be sent to America on government funds. Hafiz Husain Ahmad of JUI has been to America many times but no one knows where he goes and what he does.
Na'at and Punjab Assembly
Reported in Jinnah Punjab Assembly agreed to do away with the committee formed earlier to decide whether or not the content sung in a naat (praise of the Prophet PBUH) sung in addition to tilawat (recitation of the Quran) was proper. An MPA threatened to resign if naat was discontinued. The speaker decided to disband the committee.
Nawaz hunting pheasant?
Reported in daily Islam, Nawaz Sharif was invited by the Mahr clan of Sindh to come and hunt pheasant on their land at Khangarh along with a prince of the UAE. When asked if this was true, the PML-N sources explained that he had gone to Khangarh not to kill birds but to examine the canal irrigation system there.
Prophet PBUH and victory against India
Famous columnist Haroon Rashid wrote in Jang that once someone came to him thrice in the night and disclosed to him a dream in which the Prophet (PBUH) appeared next to Kahuta Laboratory where the largest number of Pakistani scientists lived. The dream was also that when the dreamer ran after the American gora men to catch them with stolen uranium he saw the Prophet (PBUH) standing near a stream together with Hazrat Ali and Hazrat Umar, his companions. The Prophet (PBUH) said that he would himself supervise the war against India in which the Muslims would be led by Khalid bin Walid.
Irfan Siddiqi on Justice Chaudhry
Famous columnist Irfan Siddiqi wrote in Jang Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry was qaziul qazzaat of Pakistan with unlimited (bekraan) popular affection and unlimited confidence of the people at his back. He is the only judge in human history who has been survived the assaults of a savage despot (saffaak amir) three times. The robe of justice of Justice Chaudhry is crimson with the blood of martyrs for his cause and the biggest treasure for him to defend is the confidence (etemaad) of the common man in his leadership.
Pak girl students seduced by India
Periodical Jarrar of Jamaatud Dawa reported that an NGO pretending to take Pakistani students to India on study tours was actually taking Pakistani girls to India making them stay with Hindu families who arranged to rape them and thus make them vulnerable to blackmail. Among the girl students were girls from the best known private university of Lahore (name omitted by TFT). The paper said that ISI had arrested the NGO director who was actually working for RAW.
Which general will become chief?
Writing in Jang, Nusrat Mirza observed that army chief General Kayani was retiring in November 2010 but the government was desirous of giving an extension to General Mustafa Khan who is to retire in October 2010. The government wants to extend the service of General Kayani by two years parallel to the extension of service given to General Petraeus by the US. But General Mustafa Khan is junior way down from General Kayani by ten candidates. But if he retires in October he can't even become Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee. What is the government up to?
