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| 2004-10-22 |
| 'Osama is our hero!' Quoted in daily Insaf, Mufti Kifayatullah, senior adviser to the chief minister NWFP and secretary information of MMA, stated that in the eyes of his party and government Osama bin Laden was a hero. He cautioned that Mr Mushahid Hussain secretary general of the PMLQ should be careful in calling him an enemy of the Muslims on TV. He said the rulers of Pakistan first earned dollars by inviting the mujahideen to fight jihad; they once again got paid by the Americans by getting the mujahideen killed. He said Osama bin Laden was a Muslim in the real sense. He appealed that Faisal Saleh Hayat should be removed as federal interior minister. He said he was not physically in touch with the Taliban but his party was bound ideologically with the Taliban. 'This man is corrupt!' Writing in Jang Nazeer Naji stated that British High Commissioner met National Security Council adviser Mr Tariq Aziz and told him that one political head of a government department was involved in smuggling Pakistanis illegally to the UK and that his people were receiving Rs 5 lakh as bribe from each illegal traveller and sending it up to the department chief. The UK High Commissioner had then met Chaudhry Shujaat and bluntly told him that the man was corrupt. Finally when he met President Musharraf and told him the truth he was told that investigation was on and that some step would be taken soon. The columnist expected that in the new cabinet of Mr Shaukat Aziz the man would be dropped. Kargil decision was right! Ex-ISI chief General (Retd) Javed Nasir wrote in Nawa-e-Waqt that within one hour of becoming army chief General Pervez Musharraf posted six lieutenant generals including one who was corps commander Chaklala (general Aziz). This man had been presenting the Kargil Operation to prime ministers and had done so in 1989 to Ms Bhutto who had rejected it. But as the best instructor of the War Wing in National Defence College, Musharraf knew that if Pakistan tried to recapture Siachen from India, the latter would be incapable of resisting the Pakistani operation. He was right in this assessment. Cost of hajj Writing in Jang, Javed Chaudhry said that in the year 2004 181,000 Pakistanis will go for hajj to Saudi Arabia. These people will pay Rs 1.05 lakh each as hajj fee. In all, a sum of Rs 19 billion 18 crore and 15 lakh will paid by those wishing to go to hajj. Yet the country was full of people who were not even poor because they lived below the poverty line and did not have enough food to eat. Population born jails Column Sarerahe in Nawa-e-Waqt quoted Maulana Fazlur Rehman as saying in a seminar that very soon the NWFP province will allow prisoners to have the company of their wives. The maulana was very happy that Pakistan would soon have a special population born in jails. 99% wine-drinkers are Muslim Quoted in Khabrain, owner of Murree Brewery 66-year old MP Bhandara stated that 99 percent of those who drank his alcoholic beverages were Muslims although the country allowed sale of his products only for the consumption of non-Muslims. He said his product was in competition with foreign brands which were smuggled because the government did not allow their import. Bootleggers sold Scotch whiskey going around in Mercedes cars and no one could stop them. Foreign brands of alcohol were being smuggled from China and India. Murree Brewery was set up in 1860 by the British but consumption was banned by prime minister Bhutto, after which General Zia further tightened the laws against drinking. Mr Bhandara said he was trying to export his products to Indian restaurants in the UK. Fraud in the name of Islam According to Khabrain, a company named SN International in Thokar Niaz Beg in Lahore started business as jihad against the un-Islamic practice of riba (bank interest). It told its clients that they could take loans from the company to buy consumer goods without paying any interest on the borrowed sum. The company did roaring business while its owner Prof Nasrullah made fiery speeches in favour of Islam. It accumulated Rs 40 million after which the owners absconded from the scene. It now came to light that the Islamic company owed large amounts of money to consumer goods sellers and to the 'members' who had bought its membership. |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #2 Fraud in the name of Islam *Suppresses urge to dance in glee* |
| Posted by: Ptah 2004-10-22 12:19:01 PM |
| #1 Fraud in the name of Islam Damn! How is that possible? Next thing you'll be telling me is 99% of wine drinkers are Muslim. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-10-22 10:38:56 AM |