Daily Nawa-e-Waqt editorialised that Pakistani citizens felt their honour increase (viqar mein izafa) on hearing that a delegation of nine Pakistani senators from the Tribal Areas (FATA) refused to continue their official visit in the United States after they were asked to submit to body scan (hattak amez amal). Similarly two Muslim ladies coming to Pakistan increased national honour by cancelling their journey from the UK after refusing to be scanned at the airport. The Americans have apologised for the scan but said that FATA senators could not be exempted.
Rivers will flow with blood!
Daily Jinnah reported that the UN-banned Jamaatud Dawa held a massive procession on Lahore's Mall Road to condemn India for stealing Pakistan's water. Famous leader Hafiz Said warned India (bharatio sunn lo!) that he will win Kashmir from India together with the dams India was building on Pakistani rivers. He said the rivers will run with Hindu blood.
Indus Treaty an unhappy marriage
Quoted in Jang Indus Water Commissioner Jamaat Ali Shah said in Lahore that Indus Water Treaty between Pakistan and India was an unhappy marriage over the years. He said India was preparing to build 25 to 20 dams on the rivers given to Pakistan. Although the dams were allowed by the treaty India should act on the spirit of the Treaty and agree to amend the amount of water given by the treaty to India from three Pakistani rivers. The reason was that the water flow in these rivers had decreased.
Blow up the dams!
Quoted in Jinnah chief editor and heads of journalists' organisation Khushnood Ali Khan told a meeting that the Indian dams that stole Pakistani water should be blown up with bombs. He said if India did not desist from stealing water then the philosophy of Hafiz Said should be acted upon because that was the only language India understood.
Talibanisation defined
Writing in Jang Saleem Safi stated that Talibanisation is often equated with the Taliban but it was actually rooted in the state institutions and their Indian and Afghan policies, politics of the religious parties and the hawkish anchors of the TV channels.
Jamaat has the wrong leader
According to survey published in Jinnah Jamaat Islami rank and file are unhappy with the current chief Syed Munawwar Hasan and would like to see Liaquat Baloch to be their leader. According to them former chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad too would like to have Baloch as the Jamaat leader. After a year Munawwar has not won the acceptance of the party supporters and he is not likely to win his place the second time.
Courting a terrorist party
Reported in Express PMLN leaders were courting the banned terrorist party Sipah Sahaba in South Punjab to win in elections. PMLN Punjab law minister Rana Sanaullah was seen together with the Sipah leader Maulana Ahmad Ludhianvi who claimed that all politicians who won their seats in South Punjab had approached Sipah for help. One federal minister of state had invited Ludhianvi to his house.
Ban on lewd gestures
Reported in daily Pakistan Lahore Home Department sent a notice of ban to actress Saima Khan for making lewd gestures on stage while acting in a play. The play was titled Ishq, Muhabbat aur Mehngai (High Passion amid High Prices). The Home Department also issued a notice of warning to Nida Chaudhry for making similar gestures.
I would have slapped him!
Quoted in daily Pakistan Governor Salmaan Taseer said that had he known that a member of Sipah Sahaba was in the same vehicle he was travelling in and had he known that he was addressing the same gathering he was addressing he would have slapped him and thrown him out of the meeting.
Target Nazir Naji
Writing in Jang, columnist Nazir Naji stated that he received a death threat once and requested the police to trace the man who had arranged to get him killed. The police found the man responsible was an imam masjid of Multan who confessed that he had planned to kill Nazir Naji on reading his columns. Naji further revealed that his latest death threats included Islamic scholar Javed Ghamidi and himself as targets of assassination.
Punjab lady MPAs exchange curses
According to Jinnah two lady MPAs in the Punjab Assembly exchanged hot words during a committee meeting and came out quarrelling and had to be provided security against exchange of blows. One Fauzia Behram called Samia Amjad ‘ghatiya' in Urdu who shot back with ‘shut up' in English.
Barber repents in Bhakkar
Reported in weekly Al Qalam a barber of the sectarian conflict prone city of Bhakkar in Punjab repented and gave up shaving people's beards. Barber Hakim was persuaded by the greatly humanitarian Al Rehmat Trust organisation to give up the sinful occupation of shaving beards. He presented himself at a local mosque and confessed that shaitan (satan) and nafs (selfishness) had deceived him into sin which he was now giving up.
Deobandi versus Barelvi in Faisalabad
Writing in jihadi publication Zarb-e-Momin Deobandi religious leader Qari Muhammad Jalundhari stated that on 12 Rabiul Awwwal the Birthday of the Prophet PBUH was celebrated in Faisalabad by Barelvi followers. When the procession reached the tomb of Deobandi dignitary Maulana Ziaul Qasimi they became violent and destroyed the library of the great man. He said there was a conspiracy afoot to rake up the old Barelvi-Deobandi vendetta and make the two fight again.
Conspiracies against Pakistan
Weekly Al Qalam reported from Islamabad that Raw, CIA and Mossad had decided to work together to deprive Pakistan of its water and turn it into registan (desert). It also reported from Islamabad that an international plot was ready to destabilise Pakistan. RAW together with CIA and Mossad had set up training camps for terrorists inside India who would be unleashed on Pakistan. For this, notorious criminals from all over the world were being scouted and inducted.
Sipah Sahaba is not terrorist!
Daily Islam reported that Maulana Ahmad Ludhianvi the chief of the UN-banned Sipah Sahaba now renamed Ahle Sunnat wal Jamaat said that his party should not be called terrorist as saying so would be contempt of court. He said a case in this regard was sub judice at the High Court. He said the PPP candidate in Haroonabad was supported by his party and this support was announced by member Javed Iqbal in the presence of Governor Salmaan Taseer.
Who was Maulana Jalalpuri?
Daily newspaper Islam reported that head of the Khatm-e-Nabuwwat organisation in Karachi great scholar Maulana Jalalpuri was gunned down along with his companions. He was famous for his diatribes against the Qadianis and his janaza prayer was said at Banuri Mosque. The paper reported that he was a celebrated pupil of Maulana Yusuf Ludhianvi who was also killed in sectarian conflict. The head of Banuri Madrassa Mufti Shamzai was also thus killed in 2004. Earlier great scholar Maulana Ghafur Nadim of Sipah Sahaba was wounded by attackers in Karachi but his son Muawiya, provocatively named from the point of the view of the Shia community, was killed.