06-30-2006, 06:57 AM
FT Gup
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Punished for marrying, after 33 years</b>
According to Jang a Christian couple who married 33 years ago was punished by a sessions judge of Lahore to 4 years in jail, 30 whiplashes each and 20 thousand rupees each in the year 2002. This was done under Islamic law on the accusation of another Christian Niamat Masih who was trying to get the couple convicted by alleging that the wife of Fazal Masih, Seema was actually married to him, but till 2002 he could not produce any proof. In 2002 however the sessions judge punished the old couple after 33 years of marriage. The Shariat Court finally let them off after a four-year ordeal.
<b>All rulers are âsecurity riskâ</b>
Columnist Khurshid Nadeem stated in Jang that in the 20th century the idea of the nation-state focused all attention on the ruler and Pakistanis believe that if their lives were not happy the ruler was to blame. In succession, Ms Bhutto (when she received Rajiv Gandhi), Nawaz Sharif (when he received Vajpayee) and now Musharraf (for normalisation) were declared a risk to the security of Pakistan. After the rulers were removed, their names were cleared of the blot and they were dubbed great patriots
<b>Musharraf was âPalluâ</b> <!--emo&
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Quoted in Khabrain, the mother of President Pervez Musharraf, Mrs Zareen Musharraf, stated that when Musharraf was a child she used to call him Pallu but after he grew up she gave up the nickname. She said she expected him to rise to the top in the army but had never imagined that he would become president. She said he called to tell her he had become president after the day his plane was diverted by Nawaz Sharif. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Punished for marrying, after 33 years</b>
According to Jang a Christian couple who married 33 years ago was punished by a sessions judge of Lahore to 4 years in jail, 30 whiplashes each and 20 thousand rupees each in the year 2002. This was done under Islamic law on the accusation of another Christian Niamat Masih who was trying to get the couple convicted by alleging that the wife of Fazal Masih, Seema was actually married to him, but till 2002 he could not produce any proof. In 2002 however the sessions judge punished the old couple after 33 years of marriage. The Shariat Court finally let them off after a four-year ordeal.
<b>All rulers are âsecurity riskâ</b>
Columnist Khurshid Nadeem stated in Jang that in the 20th century the idea of the nation-state focused all attention on the ruler and Pakistanis believe that if their lives were not happy the ruler was to blame. In succession, Ms Bhutto (when she received Rajiv Gandhi), Nawaz Sharif (when he received Vajpayee) and now Musharraf (for normalisation) were declared a risk to the security of Pakistan. After the rulers were removed, their names were cleared of the blot and they were dubbed great patriots
<b>Musharraf was âPalluâ</b> <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> Quoted in Khabrain, the mother of President Pervez Musharraf, Mrs Zareen Musharraf, stated that when Musharraf was a child she used to call him Pallu but after he grew up she gave up the nickname. She said she expected him to rise to the top in the army but had never imagined that he would become president. She said he called to tell her he had become president after the day his plane was diverted by Nawaz Sharif. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->