Eight judges looted in BahawalnagarReported in Jinnah eight civil and district judges were looted by seven dacoits in a singUule attempt in Bahawalnagar in Bahawalpur. The brother in law of the local district and sessions had died and all the judges flocked to his house for condolences. The seven dacoits stopped them on the way back on gunpoint and looted all their belongings. One dacoit was killed after the police intercepted him while the rest got away. This was considered a record in the history of lower judiciary anywhere in the world.
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Aitzaz Ahsan lost his honour
Daily Pakistain reported that a number of religious scholars including Sajid Mir were of the opinion that Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan had lost the honour he had won during the lawyers' movement to restore the judiciary when he undertook to defend the presidential immunity because in Islam there was no immunity to any head of the state.
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Nawaz paying Mansoor's lawyer
Opposition PPP leader in Punjab Assembly Raja Riaz was quoted by Express as saying that
Nawaz Sharif... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
was actually paying the fee of Akram Sheikh representing Mansoor Ijaz after reaching secret understanding with the latter who was perceived to be very effective in the Supreme Court, which Mansoor Ijaz had no way of knowing. He said Mansoor should be placed on ECL and not allowed to leave Pakistain.
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Presidential office threatened by judiciary
Lawyer-leader Asma Jahangir told daily Pakistain that if the Court did not accept the immunity of President Zardari under the Constitution, no president would be safe in his office. She was of the opinion that the government should have approached Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
courts and raised the question of immunity there. If the judiciary did not speak in a vacuum then the Supreme Court should realise that there was a state within the state in Pakistain, she said.
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Taliban kill if the opinion ignored
Daily Pakistain reported a Taliban spokesperson Ehsanullah that if the Taliban point of view was not reported by journalists then they would be killed just as Mukarram Khan a news hound of Voice of America was. Mukarram was told a number of times that he should also report the point of the Taliban.
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Wukla persons shout support for Chief Justice
Daily Jang reported that while Prime Minister was appearing before the Supreme Court to defend himself against contempt of court a group of wukla persons outside the court shouted support for Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and condemned the prime minister and his lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan. Unruly lawyers called wukla in Pakistain have been known to indulge in rowdy behaviour, at times also threatening the judges and throwing flower petals on killers.
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Bungalow for Musharraf's killer
Quoted in Jinnah Shahzain Bugti stated that whoever would kill Musharraf upon his arrival in Pakistain would paid by him $100 million worth of bungalow with complete security. Ex-president of Pakistain had meanwhile announced that he had postponed his arrival in Pakistain on the advice of his friends because of the distraction offered by the PPP-judiciary row.
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Nawaz's son-in-law condemns minority community
Reported in Mashriq senior PMLN leader Captain (retd) Safdar stated that the martial law of General Musharraf was not military but Qadiani hinting that it was a conspiracy unleashed by the minority community condemned in Pakistain as non-Mohammedans. He said Pakistain was threatened by conspiracies the day a Qadiani was made foreign minister, pointing to Pakistain's first foreign minister Sir Zafrullah Khan.
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Khosa calls Musharraf 'purani jooti'
Senior Adviser of the chief minister of Punjab Zulfiqar Khan Khosa was quoted by Mashriq as saying that General Musharraf had become an old shoe (purani jooti) which had been discarded by Pakistain as being of no use any more. He said he was a part of the country's past while the real crisis today was the delay in the holding of fresh elections.
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Iran specifies stones for killing women
Monthly magazine Naya Zamana reported that in 2002 the chief justice of Iran had banned stoning of women to death (rijm) but still the punishment was carried out. According to the penal code of Iran a woman has to be buried up to her neck before she is stoned by a crowd of righteous citizens. The size of the stone should be big enough to hurt her but not too big so as to cause immediate death. The stoning should last from 20 minutes to two hours.
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Ijazul Haq's wealth
Writing in monthly Naya Zamana Syed Naseer Shah referred to ex-air chief Zafar Chaudhry's memoir in which he described that when General Akhtar Abdur Rehman, late head of the ISI was in college, he protested at the hostel's overcharging him five rupees. Later the sons of General Zia and Akhtar Abdur Rehman were friends after their fathers' death together in Bahawalpur crash but soon there were differences during which one son of General Rehman disclosed that Ijazul Haq had only $40 million.
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Ladies with fake degrees in Punjab Assembly
According to Mashriq cases had been registered against five lady members of the Punjab Assembly because their BA degrees were found to be fake, on the advice of the Election Commission of Pakistain. One lady belonged to the PPP while four belonged to PMLN, the majority party. There were further 14 cases with the Election Commission.
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Benazir didn't want Zardari in politics!
Quoted in Express ex-PPP member Naheed Khan said that because of her closeness to Benazir she knew that she never wanted her husband Zardari to come into politics. She added that she was shocked by Zardari suddenly being stricken by love for Aitzaz Ahsan.
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Mian Bashir rescues Imran Khan
... aka
Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree...Writing in Jang Haroon Rasheed stated that it was clairvoyant Mian Bashir who always told Imran Khan that he would succeed in completing his cancer hospital even after the rich donors had retreated and the hospital was threatened as a project. At this time Mian Bashir sent Imran to the common man who gave him $3 million. Today, people like Ahsan Rasheed had arrived from Soddy Arabia as helpers.
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Veena gets wooed by 95,000 men
Famous star Veena Malik told Express that 95,000 men had proposed to her for marriage through applications. She said her opponents were spreading wrong propaganda against her but she was intent on her achieving her goals.
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Gas from Thar coal not feasible
Writing in Jang Dr Mirza Ikhtiar Beg said that he had welcomed Dr Mubrakmand's project of extracting gas from the deep beds of coal in Thar region in Pakistain but had been corrected by experts who said that such a deep gasification was not feasible given the level of technology in the world. Dr Mubrakmand who is a nuclear scientist was earlier attacked by the father of Pakistain's nuclear bomb DR AQ Khan saying in his article that Thar coal electricity would not be commercially feasible.
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Lateef Khosa attacks Imran!
Governor Punjab Lateef Khosa was quoted by Mashriq as saying that Imran Khan was saying that politicians should bring their wealth back from abroad (read President Zardari) but he was not able bring his two sons back from the UK. He said PPP government was unfazed by rumours that it was going.