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India-Pakistan
Nuggets from the Urdu press
2011-12-25
Lord Nazir on Altaf Husain
Quoted in Nai Baat British Pakistani member of parliament Lord Nazir said that MQM leader Altaf Husain had been working as an agent of Indian secret agency RAW and that PPP leader Dr Zulfiqar Mirza will not leave the UK without proving the guilt of Altaf Husain.
 
Imran Khan's 'chchittar'
Quoted in daily Express Imran Khan said that he could not help meeting the American ambassador Munter after he simply barged into his house in Islamabad. He said because of the scandal arising out of this meeting that next time the US ambassador comes to his he will drive him with his shoe (chchittar).
 
Mansoor Ijaz is Qadiani!
Daily Nawa-e-Waqt made the discovery that rascally American conspirator Mansoor Ijaz was a Qadiani serving the CIA for the past 20 years while travelling in his own private jet. His father was related to the Nobel Laureate Dr Abdus Salam while his grandfather was one of the inside circle of the founder of the faith.
 
Jamali goes prophetic like Pagaro
Reported in Jinnah former prime minister and old PMLQ leader Zafrullah Jamali predicted in the tradition of Pir Pagaro - whose predictions never come true - that the PPP government will pack up before December 25, 2011, because of the NATO invasion and Husain Haqqani memo. In answer to him, PPP leader Fakhr Imam stated that there were no legitimate signs of the government going and that he was surprised at Jamali's prediction which he thought was an attempt to become another Pir Pagaro.
 
Hanif Abbasi accuses Imran Khan
Writing in Jang funny columnist Ataul Haq Qasimi said that PMLN leader Hanif Abbasi had disclosed that Imran Khan in 1987 had written an application to chief minister Punjab Nawaz Sharif for a plot in Lahore. He got two plots for free on the pledge that he had no plots in his name and that he will not sell the new plots. Yet Imran Khan owned a plot in Zaman Park where he had his house and then he sold the plots thus acquired. (Imran Khan's reply was that Nawaz Sharif had asked him to write the application so that he could officially give him the plots which he did and sold the plots thereafter and donated the money to Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital.)
 
Shaukat Khanum Trustees get big salaries
Columnist Ataul Haq Qasimi wrote in Jang that Hanif Abbasi had also accused Imran Khan to including his family members in the Shaukat Khanum Trust giving them Rs 40 lakh every month as salaries. He accused him of confessing to gambling in his book whose British edition showed Kashmir as part of India. (Imran Khan replied that he was taking legal action against Hanif Abbasi to get him to prove that salaries were given to Trustees. He said the Kashmir misprint was removed later and that the betting was not in fact gambling because it was legal based on honest professional prediction.)
 
Veena Malik in 'trubbel' again
Daily Jinnah reported that Pakistani filmstar Veena Malik had posed nude for an India magazine while carrying the tattoo saying ISI on her arm. Veena Malik replied that he photo was 'bold' but not nude. The tattoo of ISI probably showed her loyalty to Pakistan and its most honourable agency. Veena Malik's father was also offended by her exposure and reprimanded her for going too far and regretted that she was his daughter: 'Kash who meri beti na hoti'. He said his entire family was very religious. Mashriq reported that the Taliban were so upset by Veena's photo that they sent her a death threat.
 
Mushahid and Sheikh Rashid back in PMLN?
Daily Pakistan reported that PMLQ leader Mushahid Hussain and Sheikh Rashid of Awami Muslim League were getting ready to return to the embrace of PMLN because Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah was working very hard on Nawaz Sharif to get them back against the PPP.
 
Our latest 'Aslambegism'
World famous military strategist and ex-army chief of Pakistan Aslam Beg told Nawa-e-Waqt that NATO's attack at Salala in Mohmand Agency was staged by the Americans to get some Taliban terrorists freed from Pakistani jails as the Taliban are not against the US but in secret allied with it.
Oh my.
He said Pak Army had surrounded warlords Waliur Rehman and Fazlullah and the NATO attack was aimed at helping them.
 
If women drove cars in Saudi Arabia
Daily Mashriq reported that after Saudi Arabia relented and gave permission to Saudi women to drive cars a famous Saudi Islamic scholar told the Saudi religious council that the consequences of this permission would be: women will start selling their bodies, they will start seeking divorce from their husband and they will start doing obscene acts (fuhush harkaat).
 
Veena Malik offends the nation
Daily Pakistan reported that there was widespread emotional storm in Pakistan over the news that Veena Malik had posed nude for an Indian magazine and ruined Pakistan's honour for a few pennies. She was named Zahida Malik and wore burqa from class three till college but took off everything in India. Indian film producer Mahesh Bhatt said he would defend Veena Malik and give her full chance to clear her position. He said Veena should not consider herself alone because every Indian was on her side.
 
Obama takes revenge for his blackness
Columnist Tanvir Qaiser Shahid wrote in daily Express that when slaves become masters they behave worse than their tormentors. President Obama was from a community that had suffered cruelties at the hands of white Americans
A common mistake -- President Obama was not from the community, but grafted himself upon it.
but he was now being cruel to the Muslims of Pakistan as US and Nato invasion kills innocent Pakistani troops at Salala checkpost.
 
Mangal Bagh gives Islamic punishment
Reported in daily Express family members of a man killed in Bara fired on the accused after he confessed to having killed their son. The son had gone to Bara to get her sister in law to come home when the father of the bride knifed him to death. Lashkar-e-Islam the terrorist organisation which rules Khyber Agency organised the punishment under Islamic Law.
 
Haqqani made envoy on Billa's advice
Daily Mashriq reported that prime minister Nawaz Sharif wanted to get rid of his aide Husain Haqqani in 1992 and did not know what to do. Haqqani was asking for an important post which Nawaz Sharif was not willing to give him. At this point ex-ISI officer Brigadier Imtiaz Ahmed alias Brigadier Billa known for the highest IQ known in spies,
There's a regular program for measuring the intelligence of spies for comparison purposes? Doesn't that reveal them?
advised him to send him as ambassador to Sri Lanka which he did.
 
Raymond Davis's curse
Reported in Nawa-e-Waqt the family that Raymond Davis paid blood money to had gone berserk after coming into a lot of money. The boy whom Davis killed was Faheem and the blood money was paid to his brother Akram who has recently divorced his second wife after giving her a thrashing and has married a third one in addition to moving into a new house.
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