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| 2004-08-27 |
| Boy scouts 'in trubbel' Daily Nawa-e-Waqt condemned Pakistani scouts visiting Held Kashmir in a report. The report said that the scouts declared that Indian held Valley was jadoo nagri (utopian) and one scout in fact went as far as saying that Pakistan had no disputes with India. At Gulmarg the Pakistani scouts were found with their hands around the waists of Hindu women and they were also found dancing obscenely with them. They also sang songs with Indian women. The paper quoted Azad Kashmir leader Sardar Qayyum as saying that those who sent these scouts should be punished. He said no Pakistani could think of going to Held Kashmir and dancing with Hindu girls. A motion was registered against the boy scouts at the National Assembly. Saint dishes out banknotes According to Nawa-e-Waqt, a saint called Ashfaq Qalandar had stunned the city of Multan by distributing 100-rupee notes among all comers. The city was lining up in front of his house, a hired building where the saint lives with his nine children and a wife. He was asked by the police to stop the distribution but he refused. The police feared fraud but he said that he had been asked by his patron saint of Sehwan Sharif, Lal Shahbaz, to distribute money to the poor of Multan till they became rich and put the NGOs to shame. He said he reached out under his pillow and discovered 100 rupees every time a man or a woman approached him. At times he was seen giving out 10-rupee notes too. He would not say how the money got under his pillow. The people of Multan thought he was a saint come down to rid them of poverty. He had organised a Qalandar Force to keep discipline among the people standing in a mile-long queue outside his house. Chinioti's triumph Writing in daily Nawa-e-Waqt Maulana Mujibur Rehman Inqilabi stated that Maulana Manzur Chinioti was born in Chiniot in the Rajput tribe to one Haji Baksh in 1931 and grew up going to various seminaries, one Deobandi centre in Multan and then in Karachi as student of Maulana Yusuf Banuri. He was famous for challenging Qadianis to mubahila. One great mubahila took place in Nigeria where a Qadiani died under the spell of Chinioti's divine learning. After that one thousand Qadianis had converted to Islam. Nowshehra to go pious According to Nawa-e-Waqt the local government of Nowshehra in NWFP had decided to make the district pious. Special prayer committees were set up to ensure that namaz was observed five times a day. All business would stop five times a day to allow people to say namaz in congregation. Prayer committees would see that all Muslims said the namaz. In the beginning the inspection would be mild but later those not saying namaz would be publicly chastised. Ghamidi on shahadat Speaking to daily Pakistan, Islamic scholar Javed Ghamidi said that suicide bombing was not shahadat (martyrdom) because the man took his own life by planning and then ended up killing innocent people. He said shahadat was the dream of all Muslims but it could not be planned. It was more important for a Muslim to stay alive and work for the sake of Islam. He said only Allah would decide on the Day of Judgement whether Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and General Ziaul Haq were shaheed. He stated that people killed in the war in Kashmir and in Palestine were not shaheed either because Kashmir and Palestine were political issues and had to be resolved through a political campaign. He held that Islam did not allow violent action unless it was for self-defence. Islam did not allow war if it was totally unequal against the Muslims. |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #10 10 Paki Rupees? that is 17 cents! A RICH saint. Mebbe he is that guy from 'Fiddler on the Roof"? |
| Posted by: Brett_the_Quarkian 2004-08-27 9:34:05 PM |
| #9 Always! Always! Look for the Adam's Apple - that's been a motto of mine ever since that ugly night.....damn |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-08-27 9:20:33 PM |
| #8 Frank---That is where the voice came in. LOL! 90% chance of being correct, God help the rest, not that there was anything wrong with it! (with apologies to Seinfeldt) |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-08-27 9:18:34 PM |
| #7 well, AP, hopefully it was a woman! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-08-27 9:10:30 PM |
| #6 At Gulmarg the Pakistani scouts were found with their hands around the waists of Hindu women and they were also found dancing obscenely with them. They also sang songs with Indian women. That was SOP with Yukon women. Couldn't tell who or what they were in the winter except for the voice, account of all the winter accoutriments. Then someone put wood in the hall barrel stove and the joint warmed up. After a while, everyone removed their coats and only then would you find out who you had for the evening. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-08-27 9:08:29 PM |
| #5 ...the Pakistani scouts were found with their hands around the waists of Hindu women and they were also found dancing obscenely with them.. Funny, the same thing used to happen us with French-Canadian girls... |
| Posted by: Pappy 2004-08-27 8:50:37 PM |
| #4 He was famous for challenging Qadianis to mubahila. One great mubahila took place in Nigeria where a Qadiani died under the spell of Chinioti’s divine learning. After that one thousand Qadianis had converted to Islam. So how many Muslims will abandon Islam if an imam dies during one of these "conflicts" |
| Posted by: Ptah 2004-08-27 4:18:48 PM |
| #3 Here ya go, Mike! |
| Posted by: Steve White 2004-08-27 1:15:26 AM |
| #2 Ghamidi on shahadat, All very well but what about fridays, as "Islam does not allow war if it was totally unequal against the Muslims." Rantburgers, pray ye, and ask what! |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-08-27 12:50:24 AM |
| #1 ....So how come this Saint guy doesn't show up in MY neighborhood? Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2004-08-27 12:32:31 AM |