Pakistan News And Discussion-11

[Naresh]

[center]<b><span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'>Burqa repeats history</span></b>[/center]

<b>ISLAMABAD - ’Strategic’ use of ‘burqa’ to escape unnoticed is not Maulana Ghazi Abdul Aziz’s exclusive exploit.

Being a ‘Maulana’ (scholar), he might have turned a few rare pages of Pakistan’s history, knowing that at least one luminary, Maulvi Tameezud Din, successfully used the ‘burqa’ guise,</b> when Governor General Ghulam Muhammad, in early ’50s, sealed all ways around the High Court, where Speaker of the Constituent Assembly, was feared to appear to challenge the illegal dissolution of country’s prime constitutional institution.

<b><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>The burqa-clad Maulvi Tameezud Din entered the court premises unnoticed and succeeded in securing the verdict in his favour.</span>

<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>The second Maulana after Maunal Aziz, was Maulana Abdus Sattar Khan Niazi, who during the historic Khatm-e-Nabuwwat movement, had to go in hiding for fear of arrest, but was nabbed while trying to escape under burqa guise with shaven beard. That’s perhaps why Maulana Aziz rejected the idea of shaving his beard sensing that if at all he was going to be apprehended, it didn’t matter much whether or not there was a beard.</span>

The law enforcement agencies may be clever enough in nabbing some maulanas from under the burqa, <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>but perhaps they don’t care if the bootleggers use the guise to supply the illicit stuff to their needy clients.</span></b>

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