Pakistan - News and Discussion -7

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<b>Illegal Pakistani killed abroad</b>
According to daily Pakistan last year 2500 Pakistanis were killed by security forces on the border areas of Iran, Turkey and Greece. These Pakistan were trying to enter Europe illegally and their dead bodies were lying unclaimed in the wilderness. Travel agents and recruiters numbering 472 in the Gujrat-Kharian area in Punjab had become billionaires after collecting heavy fees from these innocent and illiterate people. 

<b>Don’t trust Bharat!</b>
Quoted in Nawa-e-Waqt federal minister for provincial coordination Salim Saifullah Khan said that India should not be trusted and those who are fond of visiting India all the time should know that India was Pakistan’s enemy. He said they should ask India why it had stopped Pakistan’s river waters. He said politicians and the army were wheels of the same vehicle. Editor Majeed Nizami said that Pakistan came into being as a welfare state but now it was run by cheeni-chor ministers.

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Quoted in Nawa-e-Waqt Dr Israr Ahmad said from Lahore that it was a conspiracy to change textbooks in Pakistan and a prescribed book (in some private institutions) called Pakistan Kahaniyan should be immediately banned. To set things right Arabic should be declared the official language of Pakistan. According to him Jinnah was wrong in proposing Urdu as the national language. School-chain-owner Adeeb Javidani said that the government had assaulted two sectors, South Waziristan and Islamic textbooks. Qazi Hussain Ahmad said that America was taking all Islamic matter out of the textbooks in Pakistan. 

<b>Yusuf’s younger brother too embraces Islam</b>
Quoted in Khabrain test cricketer Muhammad Yusuf’s younger brother Tariq Hamza said that another test cricketer Danish Kaneria would soon be embracing Islam. Tariq Hamza was a Christian named Tariq Bhatti. After his brother Yusuf Yuhanna embraced Islam he too embraced Islam and was now a very happy man. He said when Yusuf embraced Islam he attacked him and exchanged blows with him but later saw it was good to embrace Islam. His said his wife was beaten up by her Christian parents after she embraced Islam.
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