08-04-2006, 08:16 AM
Gem from FT
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Lashkar-e-Islam takes over Bara</b>
According to Nawa-e-Waqt a man called Mangal Bagh Afridi had organised his own Lashkar-e-Islam and occupied the Bara Market in Khyber Agency. The government took action and paramilitary forces were deployed along with special military transport. The government acting under special laws of FCR asked the lashkar to leave and when it did not government destroyed the shops belonging to Mangal Bagh Afridi and his followers. The lashkar was fully armed and used the FM radio to scare people off. Mangal is a follower of Deobandi Mufti Munir who was driven out after his bloody feud with Barelvi Pir Saifur Rehman. Mangal too was ousted but has come back with his armed men.
<b>Pakistan embassy in Spain hands out 2000 passports</b>
According to Nawa-e-Waqt Pakistanâs embassy in Spain simply handed out 2,000 new passports to all comers. Now the fear was that these 2,000 ânew citizensâ could go around the world as Pakistanis and commit crimes that will be attributed to Pakistan. The mission had no record of either receiving or issuing the passports. In the past, thousands of passports were stolen from various Pakistani missions abroad including consulates in the UK.
<b>Quran-burning man killed</b>
Daily Khabrain reported that in Hasilpur a local mob killed a Qari Qamar who was trying to set light to pages of the Quran and hadith near a dirty place. Master Muhammad Sadiq came to rescue the man from the clutches of the piously outraged mob but he too was nearly beaten to death. In Pakistan there is no death sentence for burning the Quran but there is life imprisonment. The mob disappeared after doing the pious deed.
<b>Bank wants employees well dressed</b>
According to Khabrain notice was taken in Dera Ismail Khan in the NWFP of the fact that Habib Bank had ordered its employees to wear three-piece suits and shave off beards and moustaches <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->Â under the new ownership of the Aga Khan. Religious circles were incensed but the bank explained that instructions were specific to one branch with special functions.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Lashkar-e-Islam takes over Bara</b>
According to Nawa-e-Waqt a man called Mangal Bagh Afridi had organised his own Lashkar-e-Islam and occupied the Bara Market in Khyber Agency. The government took action and paramilitary forces were deployed along with special military transport. The government acting under special laws of FCR asked the lashkar to leave and when it did not government destroyed the shops belonging to Mangal Bagh Afridi and his followers. The lashkar was fully armed and used the FM radio to scare people off. Mangal is a follower of Deobandi Mufti Munir who was driven out after his bloody feud with Barelvi Pir Saifur Rehman. Mangal too was ousted but has come back with his armed men.
<b>Pakistan embassy in Spain hands out 2000 passports</b>
According to Nawa-e-Waqt Pakistanâs embassy in Spain simply handed out 2,000 new passports to all comers. Now the fear was that these 2,000 ânew citizensâ could go around the world as Pakistanis and commit crimes that will be attributed to Pakistan. The mission had no record of either receiving or issuing the passports. In the past, thousands of passports were stolen from various Pakistani missions abroad including consulates in the UK.
<b>Quran-burning man killed</b>
Daily Khabrain reported that in Hasilpur a local mob killed a Qari Qamar who was trying to set light to pages of the Quran and hadith near a dirty place. Master Muhammad Sadiq came to rescue the man from the clutches of the piously outraged mob but he too was nearly beaten to death. In Pakistan there is no death sentence for burning the Quran but there is life imprisonment. The mob disappeared after doing the pious deed.
<b>Bank wants employees well dressed</b>
According to Khabrain notice was taken in Dera Ismail Khan in the NWFP of the fact that Habib Bank had ordered its employees to wear three-piece suits and shave off beards and moustaches <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->Â under the new ownership of the Aga Khan. Religious circles were incensed but the bank explained that instructions were specific to one branch with special functions.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->