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| 2004-12-03 | |
Daily Nawa-e-Waqt reported that the Senate was discussing the (uniform) bill when the opposition objected to the manner of presenting it. On this, law minister Wasi Zafar got up to reply but was greeted with shame-shame and lota-lota (corruption) shouts. He lost his temper and said 'main opposition kau muhn par joota marta hun (I fling my shoe on the face of the opposition.) When the lota-lota shouts increased he lunged at the opposition benches and challenged them to fisticuffs, all the time abusing them. The opposition led by PPP's Raza Rabbani and Safdar Abbasi lunged at him. Raza Rabbani and he got each other by the throat and would have done damage had not the others intervened. The house resounded to dirty curses, which were removed from the record by the chairman. He also closed the session. AQ Khan's vision Writing in Jang, Hamid Mir said that after AQ Khan was confined to his house he went to see him. AQ Khan said that George Bush would first get Pakistan to catch and hand over Osama bin Laden then destroy Pakistan. The great nuclear scientist insisted that Pakistan would hand Osama to America a few days before the 2004 election. He also insisted that Pakistan had already caught Osama bin Laden and was keeping him for the great moment. When Hamid Mir disagreed and he made bet with him on this. Osama proves ulema wrong Columnist Hamid Mir wrote in Jang that by announcing that he had carried out the 9/11 attacks, Osama bin Laden in his cassette on 29 October 2004 had revealed the falsehood of Muslim intellectuals and ulema that the 9/11 acts of terrorism had been committed by the Jews. In the beginning Hamid Mir too thought that the Jews had done it but in November 2001 when he was in Jalalabad he discovered that every Al Qaeda member had the photo of Muhammad Ata (the leader of the hijackers who crashed two airliners into the World Trade Centre buildings) on their lap top computers. After that he became convinced that Osama had done the deed. In fact as the latest cassette revealed Osama had thought of 9/11 in 1982 when the US destroyed Lebanon through Israel. A necrophilia case According to Jang in Yazman in South Punjab the daughter of one Tufail, died and was buried. His relative Ulfat along with a friend went to the grave at night and dug it open, but before he could take out the corpse someone came along. The grave was restored. But the culprits dug it up the next day, violated (bayhurmati) the corpse and put it back. After chchitraul (beatings) both only admitted to an attempt at stealing of the shroud. | |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #7 But the culprits dug it up the next day, violated (bayhurmati) the corpse and put it back. ...You know, I'm not sure what bothers me more: the act itself or the fact that it apparently happens often enough that they have a word for it. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2004-12-03 11:42:52 PM |
| #6 I say Frank G you make fun of my speechifying, but I tell you my beflowered friend, that there's just way tooooo much consuuuuuming going on out dere! And to answer that question that's locked in your noggin, Friz is like an abu name, like them sand hmmm folks have, my given, Christian name is Jubalation. |
| Posted by: Fritz H 2004-12-03 1:51:51 PM |
| #5 Does anyone doubt that cries of "Shame! Shame!" or even "Lotta! Lotta!" wouldn't improve our Congress? Sounds like a couple of |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-12-03 1:05:41 PM |
| #4 Especially when Ted Kennedy gets up to speak in the Senate. "Drunk! Drunk! Lush! Lush! Liar! Liar! Bad Driver! Chick Drowner! Doggerl Spouter!" are cries echoing throughout the Senate Chambers. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-12-03 12:30:19 PM |
| #3 You know, tu touches on a point I like about parliments. In our Congress, there's no heckling. If you watch the C-Span coverage of the Brits, you see it. Does anyone doubt that cries of "Shame! Shame!" or even "Lotta! Lotta!" wouldn't improve our Congress? |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2004-12-03 10:17:18 AM |
| #2 Shame-shame and lota-lota? Haven't we all been there? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-12-03 9:11:25 AM |
| #1 Ha! I fling my shoe at your face! Now I am shoeless and you are pissed! Almost as good as the Taiwan Parliment, but a ways to go to match the US House of Representatives in the early years. |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2004-12-03 9:02:27 AM |