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| Nuggets from the Urdu press |
| 2004-06-04 |
| Village court strikes again According to Khabrain a panchayat in Kabirwala was approached by a bad character alleging that a certain man had illicit relations with his sister. The Panchayat ruled that the sisters of the accused should be raped by him and his brother. The two then took the girls and raped them all night as the girls shrieked for help. No one came to help them as the village court had decided on rape. Mufti Shamzai against MMA Writing in daily Pakistan Tanvir Qaiser Shahid stated that a leader of the MMA Maulana Samiul Haq was attacking Maulana Fazlur Rehman and Qazi Hussain Ahmad so severely that it was natural to think that the MMA had developed fissures. He further wrote that Samiul Haq been joined by Karachi’s powerful Deobandi leader Mufti Shamzai who had accused the MMA of not reacting appropriately to Wana Operation as doing so would have deprived them of the fruits of the LFO. From the other side it was being said that Samiul Haq was like a plaything in the hands of PML-Q; and his son Hamidul Haq as a senator was constantly issuing statements against the MMA. Tariq Aziz and Maulana Badiullah Shah Columnist Hafiz Sanaullah wrote in Khabrain that once film actor and PPP politician Tariq Aziz had said at a gathering in Peshawar that when Halagu Khan invaded Baghdad the ulema of the city were disputing whether the cuff of the shalwar had to be above or below the ankles at namaz. At this one bearded man approached him and threateningly warned him against maligning the ulema. This was the great Maulana Badiullah Shah. Lahore councillors do ‘dhinga-mushti’ According to daily Pakistan, elected members attending a session of Lahore Council indulged in dhinga mushti (wrestling and fisticuffs) after hurling accusations of corruption at each other. The house went into a clinch after one member accused Jamaat Islami of corruption. The members exchanged obscene swear words and thrust their fists into each other’s stomach. One member showed to the newspaper cameramen a bottle filled with filthy liquid which was used to sprinkle the councillors with. Talk of wine in Senate According to Nawa-e-Waqt the Senate was drowned in angry shouts when PML(Q) senator Rozina Alam objected to opposition member Sadia Abbasi’s statement about Chaudhry Shujaat’s remark about the textbooks. On this Sadia Abbasi started shouting and would not stop. After this men senators too joined in and it became a fish market. PML(Q) senator Kamil Ali Agha protested that the opposition had thrown a pamphlet in the hostel defaming the PML(Q) leader and said if this was done then he would disclose how the opposition members had opened NGOs and drunk wine there all the time |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #13 an "adult" film with Baghdad Bob - wearing dark socks and sunglasses |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-06-04 10:25:36 PM |
| #12 Tariq Aziz was a film actor? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2004-06-04 9:32:46 PM |
| #11 LOL - the Urdu Press: It's Catching |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-06-04 7:59:48 PM |
| #10 One member showed to the newspaper cameramen a bottle filled with filthy liquid which was used to sprinkle the councillors with. Holy water from Mecca? The dhinga-mushti. Everybody's doing it. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-06-04 7:30:06 PM |
| #9 vivid image of beturbanned legislators whacking each other with carp... Maybe they were just reenacting Monty Python's Fish-Slap dance. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2004-06-04 6:50:51 PM |
| #8 **slaps fellow lawmaker with a flounder** Sir, I challenge you to a duel! You have insulted my honor. Well, this dhinga-mushti stuff is getting us nowhere, so what say you to AK-47s at a thousand paces? No, RPGs at a thousand paces and you've got a deal. We need to have someone count to 1000 for us. Hokay, we will get the brightest student from the local Madrass to do the honors. You've got a deal. Now what were we arguing about? Refresh my memory. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-06-04 6:31:55 PM |
| #7 Brief, vivid image of beturbanned legislators whacking each other with carp... |
| Posted by: Fred 2004-06-04 5:43:43 PM |
| #6 After this men senators too joined in and it became a fish market. I just love that sort of imagery. Too bad our slanted press here would never use that phrase properly. |
| Posted by: Phil Fraering 2004-06-04 5:20:53 PM |
| #5 Ted Kennedy, et al, do the verbal dhinga-mushti every ever-lovin' live long day when the media is there to report. Thanks for posting the Nuggets! They made me start out my day right. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-06-04 12:04:13 PM |
| #4 LOL. Everybody homes in. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-06-04 11:23:34 AM |
| #3 I did some dhinga-mushti this morning, but Kaopectate took care of that. |
| Posted by: BH 2004-06-04 9:37:12 AM |
| #2 ..I swear to God , I thought the 'dhinga-mushti' was a dance... Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2004-06-04 9:27:46 AM |
| #1 Gotta love the Urdu press. I'm pretty sure the next time I get into a "discussion" with my brother, I'm gonna have to threaten to go ‘dhinga-mushti’ on his a**. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2004-06-04 9:19:14 AM |