Obscenity is as serious as poverty
Naveed Masud Hashmi says in Ausaf that the problem of obscenity in Pakistan has become as serious as the problem of poverty. Besides actresses, female anchors are also spreading nudity and obscenity with their semi-nude dresses.
Five foreign ministers, no foreign policy
Quoted in Jang, Mushahid Hussain Syed says nobody knows who the foreign minister of Pakistan. There are five foreign ministers, but no foreign policy.
Clerics are glorifying death
Writing in Dunya, Khurshid Nadeem says clerics and seminaries have glamorized death. Islam forbids us from committing suicide, but we Muslims glorify suicide attackers.
Imran Khan and Chaudhry Nisar are devout Muslims
Ansar Abbasi says in Jang that Imran Khan and Chaudhry Nisar are the only two politicians who are devout Muslims, because they speak of Islam with pride. They are not like other politicians, who are ashamed of talking about Islam.
The mischievous prime minister of Bangladesh
Irfan Siddiqui says in Jang that Sheikh Haseena Wajid, the prime minister of Bangladesh, is the most grumpy, erratic and mischievous (fitna-gar) woman he has ever seen in his life.
Interior minister on foreign affairs
Asir Chohan writes in Nawa-e-Waqt that Chaudhry Nisar is the interior minister and has no authority to make a statement on Abdul Quader Mullah’s hanging in Bangladesh. Perhaps the foreign office should be merged with the interior ministry.
The key to Imran Khan’s politics
Reported in Islam, Railways Minister Saad Rafiq says the key of Imran Khan’s politics lies with Sheikh Rashid. Imran Khan says democracy is unstable because he could not become the prime minister. He only praises the courts when they make decisions in his favor. Otherwise he abuses them.
PTI is an NGO more than a political party
Quoted in Ausaf, local politician Ashraf Gujjar says Imran Khan’s heart is with Taliban, but his party’s meetings start with music and dancing (nach gana). PTI is more an NGO than a political party. It gets money from the US and is known to have changed its position on various issues.
Haji Adeel agrees with Chaudhry Nisar
Daily Islam reports that Haji Adeel of ANP met Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar and congratulated him on calling the PTI a travesty (tamasha). He said Nisar had been soft on the PTI. He should have called them crazy (paagal).
The problem with Chaudhry Nisar
Opposition leader Khurshid Shah tells Jang that Chaudhry Nisar is either too emotional, or he does not know what he is saying.
Punjabi colonialism can break Pakistan
Mehmood Khan Achakzai, chief of Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party, tells Jang that he does want to break Pakistan, but the government should not push anyone to do that. The Baloch cannot tolerate Punjabi colonialism.
There’s nothing left in the Pandora’s Box
Writing in Dunya, Rauf Klasra says former army chief Gen Aslam Beg has warned against opening the Pandora’s Box, but so many corruption scandals have surfaced recently that there is nothing left in the Pandora’s Box.
Security policy is confusion and fear
Ayaz Amir says in Jang that the government has no policy on how to fight terrorism. It calls its confusion and fears a security policy.