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World famous military strategist and ex-army chief Aslam Beg told Daily Express that to avoid getting into more trouble President Zardari should submit his resignation. He said Memogate was actually an effort to stage an uprising within the army for which the army was very angry. He said Osama was not in Abbottabad when the US operation took place and some people in government knew about the US attack.
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Sipah agitates in Jhang against blasphemer
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Daily Express reported that Sipah Sahaba had agitated quite dangerously in DJ Khan because the police had not arrested an insulter of the Sahaba or Companions. The city remained subject to marches and shutter-downs but the name of the blasphemer was not revealed by the paper.
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Qatar Pakistanis condemn Veena Malik
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Daily Pakistan reported that expatriate Pakistanis in Qatar got together and agitated for the expulsion of Veena Malik, the Pakistani filmstar who had allowed objectionable photos of her in an Indian magazine. They said that because she had insulted the country and nation (mulk-o-qaum) she should be divested of nationality and thrown out of Pakistan. Nawa-e-Waqt also reported that the film industry in Pakistan got together on one platform and demanded the same treatment of Ms Malik. According to Mashriq, a palmist proudly predicted that such people as Veena Malik often died by suicide or in an accident. Earlier Veena Malik was condemned by the Pakistani nation for acting in TV programmes that showed her being intimate with a Hindu actor. Most Pakistani film actors who are very pious and live cleanly made public statements against her immorality.
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Caught for burning Quran
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According to Mashriq a couple - Khurram and Mrs - were secretly burning pages of the Holy Quran in Shahdara Town near Lahore and could have gone scot free had not a conscientious neighbouring lady with utmost honesty and industry looked into their house despite all kinds of obstructions. She reported the matter to the police who lost no time in arresting both the culprits.
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Mian Azhar angry with Imran Khan
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Daily Mashriq reported that former Muslim League leader Mian Azhar who had just joined Tehreek Insaf of Imran Khan was greatly offended when Shah Mehmood Qureshi formerly of the PPP was accepted into the party and made vice chairman of the party over his head. (Mian Azhar has since been mollified.)
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Mittel's offer on Thar-Coal rejected
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Daily Express reported that Pakistan proudly rejected can offer made by the Indian tycoon Lakhsmi Mittel to invest $2 billion in the extraction of coal from the region of Thar in Sindh. His company was to extract gas and set up a power station in Thar. Pakistan's security was at the heart of all Pakistanis. Daily Jang reported that Dr Samar Mubarak Mand will start producing gas from the coal in Thar in the month of February 2011. Dr Mand said that billions of dollars will come as foreign investment but did not notice the rejection of Mittel's offer.
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Taliban want Islamic sharia first!
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Daily Jang quoted Taliban commander Dadullah as saying that the Taliban will not talk peace with Pakistan Army before the enforcement of Taliban's sharia in Pakistan. He said Maulvi Faqir of Bajaur - vice chief of the Taliban movement - was talking to the Pak army in his private capacity but Dadullah as commander of Taliban was not in favour of talking before the imposition of sharia in Pakistan. He said Taliban were split in Bajaur. One commander said in Jang that during peace talks the Army had released 154 Taliban terrorists. He said he was very happy that Pakistan had quarrelled with America.
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When NAB chief fell to his knees
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Columnist Hamid Mir wrote in Jang that during the Musharraf rule Asif Ali Zardari and NAB chief of Nawaz Sharif Saifur Rehman came to court for their hearings. When Saifur Rehman saw Zardari he approached him and prostrated himself in front of him and begged to be forgiven for having cooked up false NAB cases against when he was NAB chief.
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Genera Ehtesham Zamir and 'zamir'
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Writing in Jang Hamid Mir revealed that he was approached by ISI officer Major General Ehtesham Zamir to ask Zardari that and Benazir should quit Pakistan for ten years after which Musharraf would release Zardari from jail. Hamid Mir wrote that Zardari thought he was a Kashmiri brother of Nawaz Sharif while Nawaz Sharif thought he was close to Imran Khan.
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Major Amir's luxurious retreat
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Chief Editor Khushnood Ali Khan wrote in Jinnah that going from Islamabad to Peshawar near the Attock Bridge there was a luxurious establishment on the left side owned by a former ISI officer Major Amir which was the destination of 28 editors and distinguished newspapermen of Pakistan. This was a farm house to beat all farm houses because Major Amir was a very well-endowed man from his famous Panjpir madrassa background. Major Amir was an asset of Pakistan and had gone into business to become so rich. Major Amir lost his job after being accused of trying to overthrow the PPP government in the 1990s through a plot named Midnight Jackals, the jackals being Major Amir and Brigadier Imtiaz alias Billa who later spent time in jail.
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Dr Fai destroyed by ISI
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Columnist Nazeer Naji wrote in Jang that Dr Abdul Nabi Fai from Indian administered Kashmir was resident in Washington and was honestly agitating for the freedom of the Kashmiris from India but was destroyed by someone in the ISI who thought of giving him money for doing what was his national mission. He was not made a formal lobbyist for Pakistan and was therefore caught and punished for taking money from the ISI.
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Karachi madrassa keeps pupils in chains
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Daily Mashriq reported that a madrassa in Sohrab Goth in Karachi was keeping its pupils in chains for the last ten years and the children and youths were picked up from all over Pakistan and brought to the madrassa by their relatives. The madrassa trained them for suicide-bombing missions and jihad, but gave them little food, whipped them hundreds of lashes at a time with their feet chained. The police got to know about it after ten years and rescued 57 chained pupils.
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Christians want wine banned for them too
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As reported in Mashriq Christians protested in Lahore against the government for allowing Christians to drink alcohol and giving them licences to buy wine while Christianity under Bible prohibited the drinking of wine just like the Muslims.
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Musharraf and Ijaz Shah sheltered Osama!
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Ex-ISI chief General (Retd) Ziauddin said in Mashriq that General Musharraf and Brigadier Ijaz Shah had given shelter to Osama bin Laden but Memogate was an American sting operation to entrap Pakistan. He said America could not save any government in Pakistan from being toppled. When it considers democracy inadequate, the Army takes over. According to, General Ziauddin said that America had trained 90 commandos to capture Osama but ISI chief General Mahmood had scrapped the scheme.