Daily Express quoted a 13-year old girl Meena from Lower Dir in Malakand as saying that her father and brother had run an underground training school for suicide-bombers among the unwilling teenager youth who were given a drug to make them go smiling to their death. Her sister Naheed was forcibly made to go into Afghanistan and blow herself there after drugging. She was ordered to become a suicide-bomber but she refused after which she was beaten mercilessly. The girl along with her mother and sister sewed suicide-jackets for her brother and father whose business it was to supply them. The assassination of Benazir was celebrated by the family all night. Her brother caused the 2009 Khyber Bazaar explosion which killed over 50. He used to beat up local teachers and pupils saying anyone getting education was a friend of America. She said if she could find her brother she would kill him and then take her own life.
General Naseers heresy
Daily Jinnah quoted General (Retd) Naseer Akhtar as saying that the case of Aafiya Siddiqi should be resolved through negotiations because being emotional will hurt the interests of Pakistan. He said Aafiyas statements in the court were not in keeping with reality and any retaliation in the shape of stoppage of NATO supplies by Pakistan would be counter-productive.
Jihad is the only way
Quoted in daily Jinnah Majeed Nizami stated that Kashmir could only be taken now through jihad. He wanted the policy of the government changed to a war of a thousand years. Bharat will not give us Kashmir on a platter. The world community should be made to realise that if Kashmir was not resolved there could be risk of nuclear war. He insisted that only jihad and mujahideen would be successful in this war against India.
Send Imran Khan to America!
Chief Editor Jinnah wrote that Pakistan should tell President Obama that the only way out was to send Aafiya Siddiqi in parole to Pakistan or her sentence should be carried out in a Pakistani jail. Imran Khan should lead an official delegation to America asking Obama to free Aafiya because America needed Pakistan more than Pakistan needed America.
Give war ultimatum to India!
Quoted in Nawa-e-Waqt Majeed Nizami said that ultimatum of war should be formally sent to India on the waters dispute asking it not to block Pakistans water. If India doesnt stop the building of dams on rivers in Kashmir then nuclear missiles should be used to destroy these dams.
Prof Rafiq, modern saint
Top columnist of Urdu Haroon Rashid wrote in Jang that Prof Rafiq Akhtar of Gujjar Khan was the great living man of God, especially if you want to know how Islam got to Southeast Asia without jihad. Prof Rafiq had a following of five lakh people including General Hamid Gul and Imran Khan. His life was a miracle and Haroon Rashid would want to write a book on him but had to wait till he got the permission. (The column was a preface to a book on Prof Rafiq Akhtar titled Siraj Munir).
Negotiations with India rejected
Quoted in Nawa-e-Waqt Jamaatud Dawa chief Hafiz Said stated that any table of talks set on the corpses of Kashmiris would be overturned by him. He said India should be asked why it marched into East Pakistan which was a bigger crime than thousands of cases like the Mumbai attack. He said he had not yet forgotten the 1992 destruction of Babri Masjid.
Manzur Wattoo, KGB minister
Daily Jang quoted Prime Minister Gilani as telling a gathering dedicated to the Kashmir Cause that Mian Manzur Wattoo was a KGB minister. Later the shaken audience realised that he was in fact minister for Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan (KGB) affairs.
Justice as Israels spit
Famous TV personality Dr Amir Liaquat Hussain wrote in Jang that the New York jury that convicted Aafiya Siddiqi was doing the bidding of Israel, writing justice on the spit of Israel. He said America was like Nimrud who was arrogant beyond measure but the ghaleez keera (dirty insect) Nimrud was killed by a humble mosquito.
India and sectarian violence
Famous ex-senator Muhammad Tariq Chaudhry wrote in Nawa-e-Waqt that after seeing two Islamic revolutions in Iran and Afghanistan, Europe and India became deeply disturbed and had arranged the conflict between Shia and Sunni in Pakistan. They patronised terrorists who went into mosques and imambargahs and killed people there.
Blackwater bigger than police
Quoted in daily Islam Maulana Fazlur Rehman stated that there were 9,000 Blackwater personnel stationed in Islamabad, which number was larger than then the Islamabad police. The police in Islamabad numbered 7,000. He said if Taliban are criminal, so is Blackwater.
Nawaz Sharif will be caught
Writing in Jang Haroon Rashid said that soon Nawaz Sharif will be revealed as involved in money laundering while the nation already knew about Zardaris deeds in Switzerland. He said Chaudhrys of Gujrat too would soon be caught.
Good journalist wrong style
Famous columnist Haroon Rashid wrote in Jang that he disagreed with the extreme style of presentation cultivated by Dr Shahid Masud, Shaheen Sehbai, Kamran Khan and Ansar Abbasi -- all belonging to the same media group -- but they had revealed the evil underworld of financial crime. He said he disagreed with them over the one-sided way in which they attacked Zardari.
Urdu press represents Pakistan
Columnist Saleem Safi wrote in Jang that army chief General Kayani took care to communicate also with journalists of the Urdu press apart from the English press. This was wisdom on his part because the Urdu press was the real representative (haqiqi tarjuman) of Pakistani society. In contrast General Musharraf talked only to the English-language journalist.
Act like China and Iran!
Writing in Jang Salim Safi stated that both Iran and China had learned the lesson of how to stand alone without following the edict of America. But Pakistan was different, it had not learned this lesson yet. Pakistan had become a beggar at the door of America right after its independence and its leaders were used to this alms-giving by the Americans.
Judges and revenge
Columnist Abbas Athar wrote in Express that judges in the past were moved by revenge. Under Ayub, High Court judge Maulvi Mushtaq tried Bhutto in jail and decided in Bhuttos favour. He then expected to become chief justice after Bhutto came to power. When this was not done he was filled with revenge and told Ghulam Mustafa Khar in his chamber after the latter had fallen out with Bhutto that the only death was the solution to Bhutto.
Judges without due process
Writing in Express Abbas Athar stated that all other professions there is a process of induction on merit but in the case of High Court judges -- aside from those who rise from the sessions courts -- there is no procedure of merit. Anyone who fulfils the limit of years of practice can be nominated judge. In all other services, candidates are taken on merit based on competitive worth.