Pakistan - News and Discussion 6

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Shocking cover up</b>
Last month a<b> Southern Punjabi senator shouted himself hoarse in the Assembly, decrying the dumping of nuclear waste in his constituency. Sources confirm that many local villagers have been diagnosed with cancer</b>. Far from undoing this calamity, the authorities are hushing up the matter. The village has been cordoned off and is under guard round the clock. Two journalists were prevented from entering the village and a TV crew, whose intention to film was discovered via the agencies’ ubiquitous wire tapping, was threatened to stay away or else. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Any idea where in Punjab they are dumping nuclear waste?


<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Ayaz Amir and Musharraf
Writing in daily Pakistan Tanvir Qaiser Shahid stated that when an Indian interviewer referred to columnist Ayaz Amir, President Musharraf showed clear signs of annoyance and anger. Ayaz Amir’s column falls like a bomb on the government (bam ki tarah girta hai) so much so that Akbar Bugti had declared that now if the government wanted to talk to him it should bring Ayaz Amir along. He said he was no longer interested in talking to Mushahid Hussain and Chaudhry Shujaat.

<b>‘Yari’ with India, ‘khawari’ with America!</b>
Sarerahe in Nawa-e-Waqt stated that the new railways minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad had recently said that Pakistan should rent locomotives from India. <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->  According to the column the minister was suffering from the disease of yari (friendship) and khawari (humiliation). Yari with India and khawari with America were spreading in the government.

<b>‘Quran palaces’ for Punjab</b>
According to daily Pakistan Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi had ordered the construction of palaces for the torn pages of the Quran in five districts. These buildings were to be called Quran Mahal where loose pages of the Quran would be kept instead of being thrown away. But according to news no palace had yet come into being and in Bahawalpur instead of allotting prime property for the palace, the Auqaf Department had earmarked a disputed piece of land for it

<b>Sipah Sahaba back in Islamabad</b>
According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) handout of 10 April 2006 the banned Sipah Sahaba held its rally in Islamabad presumably with the approval of the administration. The Friday rally preached jihad and sectarianism. Its activists distributed anti-Shia literature and VCDs showing the killing of American soldiers in Iraq. The police stood by and watched, despite the fact that the literature being distributed was against the law. The Sipah Sahaba speakers thanked the Islamabad administration for letting them stage the rally.

<b>Ahmadinejad invited Bush to embrace Islam</b>
According to daily Din Iran’s president Mr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wrote a letter to President Bush of the United States in connection with a possible direct dialogue between Iran and the US on the delicate issue of Iran’s nuclear programme. In the letter President Ahmadinejad solved the problem by inviting Bush to embrace Islam after which the entire conflict would be resolved because the presidents would be Muslims.

<b>Nishtar Park terrorist was Amjad Khan! </b>
According to Jang the man who suicide bombed the Nishtar Park gathering of the Barelvis was Amjad Khan. His identity was established from his head which was the only part of his body left. His three brothers were in the custody of the police. Amjad Khan was from Abbottabad and lived in a Karachi locality.
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Pakistan should rent locomotive from India, before renting they should weld tracks and change platform. They need Kufir driver to run locomotive.