Punjab divorce rate risesAccording to Nawa-e-Waqt divorce applications have arisen to an all time high at 45,500 at the rate of 15 percent annually. Ninety percent of these applications result in divorces while only five percent cases are resolved through reconciliation. Most of the cases arise because of violence and the gradual breakup of the family system in urbanised Punjab.
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Bilours in rebellious mood
Reported in daily Pakistan Ghulam Ahmad Bilour central leader of ANP in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and federal railways minister said that his brother Bashir Bilour deserved to be chief minister of K-P but President Zardari was opposed to it because he knew that Bashir would have boosted ANP at the expense of the PPP in the province. He said his family of three brothers enjoyed good contacts with PMLN.
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Veena Malik unlucky in love
Daily Jinnah reported that Pakistani filmstar working in India disappeared for days and was found without any untoward incident but she explained that she was depressed after she lost her latest boyfriend Ashmeet, an Indian actor. She was actually living with Ashmeet when the break happened after which she became depressed because according to her she suffered two broken engagements and two broken friendships based on love.
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Chacha Cricket 'in trubbel'
Daily Jinnah reported that the famous bearded clerical looking cricket fan who appeared in all international cricket matches backing the national team had fallen on bad times as his expectations that he would make some money by becoming an attraction during the matches had not fructified. He was once doing fine at Rs 60,000 salary in Abu Dhabi but decided to earn more as a cricket fan. Because of bad times he has had to sell his house but pins hopes on Imran Khan coming to power and paying him to appear at the matches again.
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Wajid Shamsul Hasan defends himself
Daily Mashriq reported that Pak high commissioner to the UK Wajid Shamsul Hasan denied that he had said that the American US raid in Abbottabad to kill Osama was known beforehand to President Zardari. He said what he said originally that it was possible that the top leaders of Pakistan should have been taken into confidence before the operation to kill Osama.
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Chief editor to the rescue!
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Mansoor Ijaz agent of RAW and Mossad`Daily Mashriq quoted veteran politician from Mianwali Dr Sher Afgan as saying that Mansoor Ijaz was an agent of RAW and Mossad and was trying to destroy Pakistan. Also it quoted Maulana Samiul Haq as saying that Taliban did not trust Pakistan therefore the US must talk to the Taliban directly. It quoted Maulana Fazlur Rehman as saying that Pakistan must force Americans out of the Gazi Barotha base too.
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Quoted in Express Imran Khan said in Gujranwala that if he got elected as prime minister he would spread the system of pure Islam or Khilafat-e-Rashida so that the people got the same kind of justice as under the most respected Khilafat of the truly Guided companions.
Punjabi Taliban attacked Mehran Base
Daily Mashriq reported that a woman terrorist named Sabiha caught by the police in Karachi stated that it was her group of Punjabi Taliban who had attack the Karachi Mehran naval base and Abdullah Ghazi tomb on behalf of Al Qaeda. She said she had herself observed the Mehran Base site before getting her male terrorist companions to go in and attack. She confessed that her group had also blown up the Karachi house of SSP Ch Aslam. Jamaat Islami chief Munawwar Hasan said that Mehran Base was attacked by America.
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Army and free plots of land
Columnist Hamid Mir wrote in Jang stated that all general-rulers of Pakistan made the same mistake, as pointed out in Hamoodur Rehman Report after General Yahya. All generals down to Musharraf allowed army officers to buy precious cantonments lands and build multiple houses there after indulging in plot sales. All army officers at the upper level owned many houses but were not able to defend Pakistan properly. When in East Pakistan fighting local uprising, the army looted banks and lost territory to India in West Pakistan.
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Imran Khan's wealth
Daily Jinnah reported that Imran Khan owned hundreds of kanals of land plus elegant houses in Islamabad, Lahore and Mianwali. He also ran three foreign currency accounts. He owned 438 kanals in Bhakkar and 78 kanals in Sheikhupura. He owned land and apartment in Islamabad valued at Rs 11 lakh. He owned 300 kanals in Bani Gala, Mohra Nur. He got over 300 kanals as gift valued at Rs 2.5 billion. Total value of assets was declared at Rs 2 crore.
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Asange condemns Mansoor Ijaz
Daily Pakistan reported Wikileaks leader Julian Asange as saying that the memo sent to Adm Mullen was fake as also the cellphone record sent by Mansoor Ijaz later was concocted because Ijaz was the owner of a communications company who could cook up the data. In the company owned by Mansoor Ijaz there is a director who was once a CIA agent.
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Raw will destroy churches during Christmas
Daily Jinnah reported in advance that RAW had planned to attack Pakistan during Christmas to destroy churches and schools owned by the Christian missionary so that the world could blame Pakistan Army and the Taliban for killing Christians. For this purpose India had infiltrated Raw agents into Pakistan.
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Writing in Jang Hamid Mir stated that some PPP circles were very upset at Nawaz Sharif for approaching the army top brass for support in getting rid of the PPP government. They said they were greatly upset also with the army top brass for betraying them although the president and the PM had supported the Army. It was after the Abbottabad attack that the Army felt itself vulnerable and became hostile, proving that the extensions given by the PPP government to Kayani and Pasha were wrong.
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Pakistan guzzling CNGÂ
According to Jang Pakistan was using more CNG in vehicles than Pakistan if one looks at the percentage according to population. In fact Pakistan was wasting gas by using it in vehicles six times more than India. In all, 3 million vehicles were being run on CNG while 300,000 were equipped with illegal and defective CNG kits.
'Supreme Court shouldn't cross limits!'
Daily Express reported lawyer Asma Jahangir as saying that the Supreme Court should not cross limits otherwise the masses will cry out against it. She said that after 2 May 2011 incident ISI chief General Pasha should have resigned. She was referring to the killing of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad.