Malik Riaz in power corridorsWriting in Jang Hamid Mir stated that Zardari and Gilani replaced Musharraf's dictatorship but followed his policies. Musharraf's close associates encircled them. Malik Riaz the real estate tycoon wrote a column in his own newspaper praising Musharraf for dismissing Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. The article was actually written by a senior journalist for him. In return he got contracts from Musharraf. The Q League leaders also became close through their sons while an Imran Khan
... aka
Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree...
companion was employed by Malik Riaz as his lawyer with an eye to the future. When the Chief Justice got after Gilani, Gilani should have resigned but Malik Riaz told him not to because he was going to get the Chief Justice to resign instead. After that he bought many who had not sold out to Musharraf.
'Aitzaz is not my hero!'
Columnist Hamid Mir wrote in Jang that he was once devoted to Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan and had quarrelled with many people while defending him but when in the Court Aitzaz heard attorney general Irfan Qadir insulting the Court he did nothing in reaction. At that point Mir decided he was no longer his hero. He did not defend Gilani competently and he doesn't agree with people who say the trial was a foregone conclusion even had Aitzaz tried.
Gilani, the longest PM?
Daily Jang had Hamid Mir opine that PM Yousaf Raza Gilani was said to be history's strongest prime minister of Pakistain but he got rid of five finance ministers in four years while removing six finance secretaries. Had he been transparent in governance he would have steered clear of the likes of Malik Riaz.
To the columnist of 'kaptaan'
PMLN leader Senator Pervez Rasheed wrote in Jang directed his rejoinder to columnist Haroon Rasheed without naming him, calling him kaptaan ka kaalam nigar. Imran Khan said Malik Riaz should lift the Koran and tell whom all he had paid off. Upon which Ch Nisar Ali Khan of PMLN had said Malik Riaz should also say how much he financed the PTI marches from Rawalpindi to Lahore. The style of the kaalam nigar was that he quoted the Koran followed by Hadith and then referred to his and Khan Sahib's joint saint. While he eulogised Imran Khan he constantly ran down the PMLN.
Imran Khan's lies
PMLN leader Senator Pervez Rasheed wrote in Jang that Imran Khan applied in writing to Chief Minister Punjab
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...
in 1987 saying he had no personal house and be given a plot from CM's discretionary quota of plots. He was given one in Faisal Town's posh locality. Later he stated that he had won it as prize from Punjab government after defeating India.
Nawaz Sharif businessman, not politician!
Deserting politician and new Tehrik Insaf leader Javed Hashmi told Jang that Nawaz Sharif was a big businessman but not a big politicians whereas Imran Khan was a big cricketer but a much bigger politician. He said he had never said that he would live and die for the PMLN.
Imran Khan's bloggers run wild
Writing in Express Nusrat Javeed stated that the lovers of Imran Khan were running wild at the internet attacking and defaming media persons who they thought were bought up by Zardari or Nawaz Sharif. The party will advance to new destinations only after it is done with blackening the faces of mediamen.
'I am not sitting at Zardari's feet!'
Quoted by Express former president of Supreme Court Bar and human rights
...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
lawyer Asma Jahangir stated that she was not sitting at the feet of Zardari but Hamid Khan of Tehrik Insaf was seen sitting next (baghal mein) to Imran Khan. She said it was difficult today to criticise the Army and the Judiciary but she was doing it. She was not involved in promoting her friends as judges but the faction of Hamid Khan was busy doing it.
Staring at judge, go to jail!
Reported in Express the Islamabad High Court sent an officer of the CDA to jail for a strange offence. The DG Planning was standing in front of the judge and staring at him. On which the judge stated that bureaucrats had become Pharaohs and were threatening the courts. The officer was set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock
I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!
and sent to Adiala Jail.
Railways, ours and India's
Reported in Jang Pakistain Railways had only 100 locomotives out of which only 85 were on track pulling passenger trains. It has 430 locomotives out which 46 can be brought on track after small repairs. Forty years ago Pakistain ran 360 trains but in 2012 it was running only 85 passenger trains and there were no freight trains running. In India, the railways was running 9,000 trains daily with an average of 25 bogies. India had 8,000 locomotives.
Sheikh Rasheed in America
Columnist Nazeer Naji wrote in Jang that Sheikh Rasheed should not have been surprised when he was tossed in the clink
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
at an airport for five hours when he visited the US. Sheikh Rasheed has been on record once that he was involved in training youths for Indian administered Kashmire in a jihadi camp. India had labelled the Kashmire freedom fighter as Orcs and similar vermin and now America too was calling them the same.
Peace with India, with honour!
Columnist Hamid Mir wrote in Jang that peace with India was okay but it should be achieved with honour and those Indian agents convicted of terrorism in Pakistain should not be released for the sake of peace with India. He referred to fellow journalist Ansar Abbasi who opposed the release of an Indian agent from Pak jail. An Indian TV anchor criticised Hamid Mir for scaring Zardari off from releasing an Indian prisoner.
Can media lampoon Army and Judiciary?
Quoted in Express federal information minister Qamar Zaman Kaira stated that if the media was so brave it should also criticise the Army and the Judiciary. It was easy to make fun of national politicians but it took real moral courage to make cartoons of the Army chief and the Chief Justice and some Orcs and similar vermin hiding in some parts of the country.
Hamid Khan should return the fee!
Owned by Malik Riaz daily Jinnah said on the front page that lawyer Hamid Khan can get his licence to practise annulled if he doesn't return the fee collected by him from Malik Riaz after joining Tehrik Insaf and refusing to represent him. It was against the law to first take the fee and then refuse to represent a client without returning the received fee.
Chechnya and Timor compared
Writing in Jang Nazeer Naji stated that East Timor in Indonesia was awarded independence because the Christians living there could create their own country. But the Chechen Mohammedans struggling against Russia for their independence were not given the same right because no Mohammedan country was supporting their movement.
Crush the Qadianis!
World famous leader of Mohammedans Pir Azharul Hassan Gilani told Jinnah that the 'guru' of the Qadianis had toured America and got a lot of support there which proved that he was busy concocting conspiracies against Pakistain and the world of Islam. He said he would fight the Qadianis on every front.