Archive for category LIAR POLITICIANS

Akbar Hussain: 14th January-The Re-awakening the Masses

Posted by admin in BOOT THE SCOUNDRELS OR SHOWDAZ, Debate Desk, LIAR POLITICIANS, Morosi Siyasat & Political Crooks, MQM, Pakistan's Ruling Elite Feudals Industrialists, PML (N) CORRUPTION, PPP on January 14th, 2013

on 12, Jan 2013

Taking into account the increasing hardships of the people – the different columnists, political analysts, anchorpersons and even the economists have been talking about the possibility of a revolution in Pakistan and also on who would be behind it during last several years.

Consequently, many political leaders also started claiming that they would bring revolution in the country. But, surprisingly, whenever the wave of any revolution emerged in the country, the same media men and the political leaders preferred supporting the prevailing system and termed such a wave as a conspiracy by the establishment against the democracy. Everyone has been witnessing the same again when Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri held a very successfully public gathering at Minar-e-Pakistan on December 23rd 2012 and also made an announcement for a Long March for the revolutionary change in the electoral process. This contradiction naturally raises a question where these people are in favor of a revolutionary change in the country for benefiting the common men, or they are the beneficiaries of the existing system?

The most interesting aspect of this is that all the critics of the proposed Long March want Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri and MQM`s leadership to let the present system to continue and that if they really want to bring any change, they should achieve their agenda by coming into the electoral process. The question is, if the prevailing system is so effective, then why do the people of Pakistan have been facing so severe problems for several decades? Why did Pakistan get split into two parts? Why does our country have no value in the international world? If the present had been so fruitful, why do we have to face the Martial laws and the Army interventions in the politics?

Are corruption, feudalism, injustice, terrorism, inflation, heavy debts, improper law & order situation and the crisis of electricity, water, fuel not sufficient to prove that this system needs be discarded as soon as possible? How would the common men have any positive expectation from such a Parliament that does not let the legislation, which can benefit the common people, take place?

it is the matter of land reforms, discriminatory taxation, agriculture taxation, making more small units, delegation of administrative authorities to them, deweaponization of the country and facilitating the middle & lower middle class people to come into power, all the beneficiaries of this system get together against the people friendly legislation. The worst aspect of the prevailing system came to light in 2007 when the movement for restoration of democracy started.

It was claimed not only by the lawyers` community, but also by the judges themselves that the judiciary had been enslaved for the last 60 years despite the presence of the “democratically” elected assemblies. Then, the judiciary had to get its freedom back not by approaching system-generated Institutions, but by way of coming on the roads for mobilizing people. If the system had been good enough, had the deposed judges gone beyond it? Not only the affected party, but also almost all the political and religious parties were with hands in hands on the roads against the democratic government. Should they not have preferred getting their demand met in the Parliament that came into existence by way of the electoral process?

Tahir-ul-qadri-640x330

It is also on record that all the Army Generals who sacked the democratic governments and took over the reign of the country, were also justifying their unconstitutional acts arguing that they wanted to help the poor people. The similar case is with the media as well. It also claims to have got its freedom restored after several decades. Would the media persons like to name the constitutionally set up body from which they got their freedom back? So, why is so that when it was the matter of their own freedom, all these people completely ignored the existing means defined by the Constitution, but when it is the matter the of political, social and the economic freedom of the common people they are imposing limitations?? Is it fair? Are they in favor of the peopleor the system that has sucked blood of the people?

In addition to all these, Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri and MQM leadership have been struggling to make the people friendly changes in the system, but the defenders did not let it come true. Now, the level of dissatisfaction of the people has arrived at the point, where meaningful changes have to be made for them. So, if the Long March critics are still of the view that present system can solve the people`s problems, they will have to come up with the concrete solution of their problems from within their system before 14th of January. Otherwise, 14th of January would prove to be as the last of the day of the rotten and corrupt system of the elite class people and a day of re-awakening of the masses!

Choor Politicians, Corrupt Cabal, Exploitation, Masses, Qadri, Re-Awakening

No Comments

PAKISTANIS SPEAK-OUT: SILAJEET OF TINY HOUBARA BUSTARD MEAT TO TREAT THE IMPOTENCY & VORACIOUS SEXUAL APPETITES OF EMIRS & SHEIKHS FROM GULF

Posted by admin in Corruption in Islamic Countries, LIAR POLITICIANS, Pakistan's Hall of Shame, Pakistan's Ruling Elite Feudals Industrialists on January 7th, 2013

Political consensus building in Pakistan by UAE Emir is an excuse to massacre of the remnants of near extinct tiny Houbara Bustard, whose sanctuary is Pakistan. In the Holy Qu’ran, Allah has given vice-regency to man over all creatures, great and small. Please speak out. Otherwise, this tiny,helpless bird will disappear forever. These Arab sheikhs due to their voracious sexual appetites, consider the few grams of this birds meat as an Aphrodisiac

The Houbara Bustard ( Named Taloorâ in Sindhi language) is 60 cm long with an 140 cm wingspan. It is brown above and white below, with a black stripe down the sides of its neck.

Every year at the onset of winter, millions of wild birds from cold northern regions i.e. Siberia migrate towards the warmer regions of the world.

The Houbara Bustard is also listed in the Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals, which is known as the Bonn Convention.

Pakistan is regarded as an important wintering ground for migratory birds.

The reason is Indus Flyway that provides a significant series of waterways and wetlands all the way long from northern mountains to the Indus Delta. Almost 70% of migratory birds that enter Pakistan finally roost on various wetlands of Sindh province, while the rest stay behind in other provinces.

Until late 1970s, the Arab royals used to go to Iran and Afghanistan as well for hunting this bird. But since the fall of Shah of Iran and Afghanistan war, Pakistan became the sole destination for the bird hunters. In 1912, the British government banned the hunting of houbara on the subcontinent. Pakistan also imposed a permanent ban on hunting of the bird in 1972. But nothing worked in front of our royal guests from Arab states because they believe the meat of this bird has mythical aphrodisiac qualities.

Hunting of Houbara bustard by Pakistanis is banned under wildlife laws

Despite strong opposition by the Environment Ministry, The federal government has issued 28 special permits to the rulers, members of ruling families and other dignitaries of four Gulf States to hunt the internationally protected Houbara bustard during the 2010-2011 winter seasons.

Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, President of the UAE and ruler of Abu Dhabi, has been allotted hunting areas in Sindh Sukkur, Ghotki, Nawabshah and Sanghar districts

Because of the increased hunting of the bird, especially in its winter habitats, the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) has classified it as an endangered migratory bird.

UAE President Nahyan trying to develop consensus between Pakistan’s two main political parties PPP & PML-N on caretaker set-up while on tour.

LAHORE – January 6, 2013

The president of the UAE and emir of Abu Dhabi has set foot into developing consensus between the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) and issues including selection of a caretaker prime minister — while he is on a hunting mission.Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who is currently stationed in the desert areas of Koh-e-Suleman in Pakistan for bird hunting, is also engaged in “crucial talks” with Pakistani political leaders in wake of the upcoming elections, sources told The Express Tribune.

Nahyan arrived in Rahim Yar Khan on December 29 and is currently camped at Koh-e-Suleman Tehsil, Rojhan district, Rajanpur where Rangers personnel have been deployed around nine entry points of the belt amid heightened security arrangements. Reportedly, the emir of Abu Dhabi, along with political engagements, is also hunting birds which have migrated from Russia to the Pakistani territory.

30 houbara hunting permits issued to Gulf “dignitaries”

From the Newspaper | Bhagwandas | 27th October, 2012

KARACHI, Oct 26: The federal government has issued at least 30 special permits to royal family members and government officials of Arab states to hunt the highly rare and internationally protected bird species houbara bustard, it emerged on Friday.

Hunting of the internationally protected migratory bird is banned under various local and international conservation laws and Pakistanis are not allowed to hunt the precious bird, sources said.

During the hunting season 2012-13, the sources said, the favour had been extended to the royal families of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, State of Qatar and Kingdom of Bahrain, including three rulers (kings), four crown prices, an uncle of a ruler, brothers and other close family members of the rulers.

The sources said that the maximum number of districts/ areas, 14 to be exact, had been allocated to UAE ruler Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. They added that he was also the single hunter who had been allocated areas in the three provinces — Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan — where the houbara bustard stays after flying from the much colder central Asian habitat to spend its winters.

While the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the largest and wealthiest country in the Arabian peninsula, it has been allocated just two hunting permits unlike the UAE that has been given 12 permits, Qatar 11 permits and Bahrain five permits, according to the sources.

Almost the entire arid region, which provided temporary abode to the migratory birds and spread in all the four provinces of Pakistan, had been allocated to these 30 foreign hunters, the sources said.

The names of the hunters and areas allocated to them, according to the list prepared by the foreign ministry are:

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, the first deputy prime minister and defence minister, has been given a permit for hunting in districts of Dera Bugti, Dera Murad Jamali, Nasirabad and Jaffarbad and Duki in Loralai district in Balochistan and Vehari, Multan (Tehsil Shujabad), Mianwali and Sargodha in Punjab.

Tabuk Governor Prince Fahd bin Abdul Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has been allocated districts of Chagai, Awaran and Noshki (excluding the Noshki city) in Balochistan.

Kingdom of Bahrain

An uncle of the King of Bahrain, Sheikh Ebrahim bin Hamad bin Abdullah al Khalifa, has been issued a permit for hunting in Mastung district of Balochistan.

A member of the ruling family, Sheikh Ahmed bin Ali Al Khalifa, has been allowed hunting in Malir district (excluding the Malir cantonment and Dhabeji areas) in Sindh.

Another member of the ruling family, Sheikh Mohammad bin Hamad Al Khalifa, has been allotted the Malir district (excluding Malir Cantonment and Dhabeji areas).

Defence affairs adviser to the king Sheikh Abdullah bin Salman Al Khalifa has been allowed hunting in Jati tehsil of Thatta district, Sindh.

Bahrain defence forces commander in chief Sheikh Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Khalifa has been given permit for hunting in Toisar tehsil of Musakhel district in Balochistan.

Abu Dhabi, UAE

UAE President and Ruler of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan has been allowed to hunt in districts of Rahim Yar Khan, Rajanpur and Dera Ghazi Khan in Punjab, and Sukkur, Ghotki, Nawabshah and Sanghar in Sindh and Zhob, Ormara, Gwadar, Pasni, Kharan, excluding Naag Dara (Naag valley is a breeding area), Panjgur and Washuk in Balochistan.

Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of UAE armed forces Lieutenant General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan has been allowed to hunt in Lehri tehsil of Sibi district (Domki area only).

UAE Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Sultan bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan has been allowed to hunt in Khairpur district, including Kot Diji (not across Nara Canal) in Sindh.

UAE Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, who is ruler’s representative in the western region, has been allotted Lehri tehsil of Sibi district (excluding Domki), old Kutchi and Sani Shoran of Bolan district in Balochistan and Khairpur Nathan Shah, Ghaibi Dero, Shahdadkot, Khairpur (area across Nara canal), Tehsil Johi and Fareedabad union council in Dadu district of Sindh.

Another member of the royal family, Sheikh Sultan bin Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, has been given Qila Saifullah district, including Kar Khurassan (less subdivision Muslim Bagh) in Balochistan.

Dubai, UAE

Ruler of Dubai and vice president of the UAE Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has been allowed to hunt in Khuzdar and Lasbela districts of Balochistan and in Muzaffargarh district of Punjab.

Crown prince of Dubai Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has been allotted Bhakkar and Khushab districts of Punjab and Jamshoro district of Sindh.

Deputy ruler of Dubai and Finance Minister Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum has been given Bahawalpur district and Fort Abbas tehsil of Bahawalnagar district.

Deputy chief of Dubai police and general security Sheikh Ahmed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, also a member of the ruling family, has been allowed to hunt in Umerkot and Tharparkar, including Mithi and Nagarparkar, (excluding the protected area).

Sheikh Rashid bin Khalifa Al-Maktoum, another member of the ruling family of Dubai, has been allocated Badin district, the Jangshahi area in Thatta and Dhabeji in Malir district in Sindh.

Major General Sheikh Al Mur bin Maktoum Al Maktoum has been given Jhang district of Punjab.

Nasir Abdullah Lootah, a government official of Dubai, has been issued a permit for hunting in Thatta district (excluding tehsils of Shah Bander and Jung Shahi) in Sindh.

State of Qatar

Emir of State of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani has been allotted the Bahawalnagar (excluding Fort Abbas tehsil) district in Punjab for hunting.

Heir Apparent of the State of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has been permitted to hunt in Jacobabad district, Sindh. Ex-heir apparent to the State of Qatar Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani has been allowed hunting in Musakhel and Drug tehsils of Musakhel district in Balochistan.

Qatar prime minister and foreign minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabbar Al Thani has been allocated the Muslimbagh subdivision in Qila Saifullah district, Balochistan.

A brother of the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Mohammad bin Khalifa Al Thani, has been allotted Loralai district (excluding the Duki area) in Balochistan.

Another royal family member, Sheikh Khalid bin Thani Al Thani, has been issued permit for hunting in district Layyah in Punjab and Dadu City in Sindh.

Qatar royal family’s supreme council member Sheikh Ali bin Abdullah Thani Al Thani has been allotted Turbat district in Balochistan for hunting.

Another member of the royal family, Sheikh Abdullah bin Ali Al Thani, has been issued a permit for hunting in Dera Ismail Khan district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Yet another member of the royal family, Sheikh Thani bin Abdul Aziz Al Thani, has been allowed to hunt in Surab tehsil in Kalat district, Balochistan.

Similarly, another member of the ruling family, Sheikh Mohammad bin Ali bin Abdullah bin Thani Al Thani, has been allowed hunting in Barkhan district and Kingri tehsil in Musakhel district of Balochistan.

Qatar prime minister’s brother Sheikh Falah bin Jassim bin Jabor Al Thani has been issued a permit for hunting in Jhal Magsi district of Balochistan.

Code of conduct

A code of conduct issued by the ministry to the hunters prescribes a bag limit of 100 birds and they have been advised neither to poach on chicks or eggs nor to take live birds and not to use firearms for hunting which is to be carried out only through falcons.

Representatives of the wildlife department and liaison officials will accompany the hunters for monitoring and ensuring that the code is being followed.

According to sources, President Asif Ali Zardari met Nahyan last week and discussed some of important issues with him, including finances of the country in next three months, transition of democracy, caretaker set up and among other issues such as the Iran-Pakistan Gas pipeline and the Taliban insurgency.

Sources revealed that the two leaders discussed the West’s reservations over the contentious Pak-Iran Gas pipeline, the threat of increasing militant attacks by the Taliban and the upcoming transition period the country following the general elections.

It was revealed that President has “cleared matters with the emir” on the caretaker set-up. The president of the UAE also urged Zardari to hold a meeting with PML-N’s leadership for negotiations. However, according to an official handout from the media cell of the President House, Zardari and Nahyan discussed “matters of mutual interests and issues of the country”. According to the official handout of the PML-N, party president Nawaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif met with Nahyan Saturday evening at his camp office in Rojhan and discussed matters of “mutual interest”.

Sources said that Sharifs discussed with the UAE leader issues regarding the caretaker setup and some names for the interim set up from both sides were also exchanged. The PML-N is trying to develop consensus on the name of the chairman of the Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party, Mehmood Khan Achakzai, for the caretaker setup and, sources said, that the party was expecting Nahyan to perform his role in promoting this.

Sources added that Nahyan himself also put forward a few names to the Sharifs for the interim setup.

No Comments

AMB.ZAFAR HILALY’S OPINION: No time for mutiny

Posted by admin in BOOT THE SCOUNDRELS OR SHOWDAZ, JUI (F), LIAR POLITICIANS on January 6th, 2013

The symbol of an Anglican bishop is a crook (a hooked staff); and that of an archbishop is a double cross. Coincidentally, that’s what many of the English used to feel about their clergy. “I never saw, heard nor read that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country”, said Swift. And he should have known – Swift was a high born Anglican priest (& writer).

Our feelings about the clergy are not very different. We too prefer to steer clear of them, except on unavoidable occasions namely, births, marriages and deaths. Even at Friday prayers some prefer to wait outside the mosque till the mullah has finished his sermon and only then rejoin the congregation.

That’s because we know our ‘priests’. We’ve had varieties of maulanas – ‘whisky’ and ‘diesel’ and ‘sandwich’ are just three examples. There have been others, like those who opposed the creation of Pakistan but on which, when it became a fait accompli, they scrambled aboard in search of lucre and office. Of course, there are those who were/are genuinely respected for their contribution to national life. Nevertheless, a straw poll suggests the public far prefers the mullah’s role be confined to leading prayers and performing religious rituals than governing, which is why religious political parties have never obtained more than a small share – 12 percent – of votes in elections and that only happened once.

But times are a changing. So overwhelming are the common man’s difficulties today, so dire his plight and so desperate his desire to find a way out that increasingly he is turning to religion, not only for protection against pain and suffering but also in the efficacy of the unforeseen, the miraculous and the extraordinary. Only God, he feels, can now rescue him. Hence, the mullah finds himself acting as an intercessor between man and God. And, as things go from bad to worse, it is not our politics that is becoming Islamised but Islam which is being politicised – and that’s a bane.

Qadri seeks to benefit from the public’s despair and their craving for a messiah. He avoided reference to religion in his Lahore speech on December 23, because he did not need to; consider he is a Shaikul Islam. Nevertheless, lest anyone forget, he dressed like a cleric even though his peculiar headgear was as foreign to our milieu as his English accent must have been to an Englishman. It looked like the Ottoman relic the Turkish clergy sported till Ataturk arrived on the scene and banished it.

Usually affectation in dress is an indication of a flaw in understanding and taken to the extreme it may be revealing of character and temperament. An aspect that was highlighted in the video shown on TV which revealed Qadri boasting that he had a major role to play in drafting the blasphemy law and persuading Ziaul Haq to accept it. If, indeed, he was proud of being the initiator of that law, as he said on video, why then deny it? Was it a concession to the feelings of his fellow Canadians who would have put him on an ‘extremist watch list’ if it were true? Besides, ‘if you cannot tell the people the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.’

Qadri is hardly the paragon of virtue and rectitude that he is being made out to be. A high court judge of yore, Justice Akhtar Hussain, heading an enquiry commission investigating Qadri’s (false) accusations in 1990 that the Jamaat-e-Islami and IJI had tried to kill him had some damning words for Qadri. Justice Akthar Hussain said Qadri was fond of dreaming and then exploiting such dreams. The judge characterised his mental condition as “ailing”, adding “anything can be expected from such a person” (The News Dec 25, 2012). Considering that in his book Fatwa on Terrorism and Suicide Bombings, Qadri describes himself as, and I quote: “Shaikhul Islam Dr Muhammed Tahirul Qadri is a scholar and intellectual leader of extraordinary proportions. He is a living model of profound classical knowledge, intellectual enlightenment, practical wisdom, pure spirituality, love, harmony and humanism…”

It might be said of self praise, just as it is said of slander, that something always sticks if we praise ourselves fearlessly, provided the praise is not entirely shameful and ridiculous. But even then, there is no excuse for such lavish self praise. Blowing your own trumpet incessantly is a sickness and left untreated it stinks.

And frankly, phoniness suffused Qadri’s visit. The pre-arrival publicity, the VIP reception at the airport, the multitudes assembled to hear him speak, the military precision of his security guards, and his dress and demeanour seemed wholly contrived. Here was a controversial former politician being accorded a welcome befitting a national hero and with no expense spared.

The multitudes that had gathered to hear Qadri were a strange potpourri of people; among whom were rustic peasants struggling to open Nestle water bottles. One of them was attacking the wrong end of the bottle till someone produced what looked like a sickle and chopped the cap off.

We know our peasants. They are simple God fearing men, and true sons of the soil. Hence, I cannot imagine anything persuading them to come and listen to a lecture by a cleric on the intricacies of the constitution. Or, on second thoughts, I can – a handsome reward, the prodding of the local chaudhry and, who knows, a nod and a wink from the powers that be.

All sorts of theories are being bandied about for the stupefying, nay, miraculously large turnout. The trouble is that nobody readily believes in miracles, hence speculation was rife as to where the money came from and the kind of organisation that was able to paste handbills of his Lahore meeting even on a remote bridge in Karachi.

Those who are fastidious about knowing how money moves ridiculed Qadri’s boast that some of his followers were willing to sell their homes for the privilege of traipsing the world merely to hear him speak. And that Pakistanis even in relatively lowly positions abroad, “like drivers”, were contributing a thousand dollars each towards his cause. Having lived and travelled abroad for the greater part of my working life, I found no ‘drivers’ so well endowed or so willing to part with their hard earned money. Of course, the well off among Pakistanis living abroad do, but obviously not the poor.

We will learn all about that soon enough. And if the Qadri visit turns out to be a ploy to postpone elections then those who have been deceiving others, by denying there is a hidden hand behind it all, will really have only deceived themselves because the consequences could be grave and even fatal for the country’s future stability.

If Qadri is genuinely interested in bringing change in Pakistan and is indeed in favour of the constitutional path, as he claims, not withstanding his talk of revolution, he should renounce his Canadian citizenship, form his own party and get elected.

To stir the political pot at this sensitive juncture of our political calendar, and just when people were wondering whether the government had the strength left to somehow crawl past the finish line and hold peaceful elections, is unwise. To allow a controversial cleric the freedom democracy confers to hurt democracy, notwithstanding his dubious claims to the contrary, is foolish. However, to help and support him in his endeavour is folly. The need of the hour is unity not mutiny.

ANP, Corrupt Political Parties, JUI(F), MQM, PML(N), PML(Q), Political corruption, PPP

No Comments

SIKANDER JATOI WADERA LIED: There is NO Churchill University in Australia, Only Monash University is located in the town of Churchill in Victoria

Posted by admin in BOOT THE SCOUNDRELS OR SHOWDAZ, LIAR POLITICIANS, Pakistan's Ruling Elite Feudals Industrialists, Politics on January 4th, 2013

Churchill
Modern township in West Gippsland built as accommodation for workers during the construction of the Hazelwood Power Station.
Located 158 kilometres from Melbourne and 8 km south of Morwell and 140 metres above sea level, Churchill is a modern, purpose-built town which was constructed in the late 1960s. The aim was to provide accommodation for workers (and their families) who were involved in the construction and maintenance of the Hazelwood Power Station. Hazelwood, which is Victoria’s second largest power station, was completed in 1971. The town was designed to cater for an eventual population of 40,000. With this in mind it is hardly surprising that, although the Power Station now uses only a small number of staff (around 60 people on each shift), Monash University has established its Gippsland campus here.