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Highly offensive #NayaPakhtunkhwa Govt's education monitoring ad showing boys & girls with moustaches. #KPKUpdates pic.twitter.com/VRFtxNp0IM— Bushra Gohar (@BushraGohar) March 20, 2016
We request @CMShehbaz to take notice of this political leader threatening the locals of Miawali to occupy their land pic.twitter.com/wc24o1ZQE7
— Basit (@iBasitt) December 20, 2015
عمران خان کی اپنی برادری کو دھمکی - طلعت حسین کی کڑی تنقید
@TalatHussain12 #PTI https://t.co/JFFFPOZi5p pic.twitter.com/n8K9tS2T8p
— Siasat.pk (@siasatpk) December 20, 2015
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عمران خان ہمارے بچوں کی زمین پر زبردستی قبضہ کرنا چاہتے ہیں، مر جائیں گے اپنی زمین نہیں دینگے، سیلو برادری کا اعلان pic.twitter.com/oaFsqOofbW
— Mustafa Azizabadi (@azizabadi) December 20, 2015
ہمارا اور ہِندوستان کا کلچر ایک ہےتاریخ ایک ہے ہم ایک جیسے ہیں۔کپتان
یہی بات نواز شریف کرےتو وہ دو قومی نظریہ کاقاتل pic.twitter.com/s2hSf8bfiz
— Rana Shazib Khan (@RmShazib) December 12, 2015
Two vehicles with same number seized from PTI MNA’s house
Islamabad - Kohsar police have recovered two vehicles with same registration number, allegedly in the ownership of a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf member of National Assembly, from her restaurant Khiva Catering on Margalla Road, F-6/3, police sources said yesterday.
According to the FIR (552) registered at the police station yesterday, police were informed last afternoon by some person that two cars of the same number were parked in front of house # 64, F-6/3. The police visited the spot and found Toyota (Prius white colour) and Toyota (Avanza silver colour), both bearing registration number RV-303-ICT. The drivers of the cars were identified as Muhammad Irfan son of Abdur Rehman resident of Tehsil Jand, district Attock, and Muhammad Ilyas, son of Waliur Rehman, of Balakot, Mansehra. Upon investigation, the number plate of Toyota (Avanza) was found fake. Police have booked Muhammad Ilyas under section 420, 468 of the PPC.
Sources in the police said that both the vehicles belonged to PTI MNA Nafeesa Khattak. The vehicles were recovered from her restaurant on Margalla Road. However, the police did not nominate the MNA in the FIR.
The cell phone of the MNA was found off when The Nation tried to reach out her for comments. However, police said that she had told police that all this happened due to some misunderstanding. Interestingly, Nafeesa Khattak is running her restaurant in the same house where she is residing. Although the Capital Development Authority’s operation for eradication of nonconforming use of residential buildings in the city continues and scores of houses are being sealed on every second day, yet Khattak’s illegal use of house goes unchecked.
According to the FIR (552) registered at the police station yesterday, police were informed last afternoon by some person that two cars of the same number were parked in front of house # 64, F-6/3. The police visited the spot and found Toyota (Prius white colour) and Toyota (Avanza silver colour), both bearing registration number RV-303-ICT. The drivers of the cars were identified as Muhammad Irfan son of Abdur Rehman resident of Tehsil Jand, district Attock, and Muhammad Ilyas, son of Waliur Rehman, of Balakot, Mansehra. Upon investigation, the number plate of Toyota (Avanza) was found fake. Police have booked Muhammad Ilyas under section 420, 468 of the PPC.
Sources in the police said that both the vehicles belonged to PTI MNA Nafeesa Khattak. The vehicles were recovered from her restaurant on Margalla Road. However, the police did not nominate the MNA in the FIR.
The cell phone of the MNA was found off when The Nation tried to reach out her for comments. However, police said that she had told police that all this happened due to some misunderstanding. Interestingly, Nafeesa Khattak is running her restaurant in the same house where she is residing. Although the Capital Development Authority’s operation for eradication of nonconforming use of residential buildings in the city continues and scores of houses are being sealed on every second day, yet Khattak’s illegal use of house goes unchecked.
http://nation.com.pk/E-Paper/Islamabad/2015-11-17/page-13/detail-6
#PTI’s Hamid Khan writes to party chief Imran Khan, expresses his dismay over criticism of judges pic.twitter.com/LyyYJbRzQS
— JAAG TV (@JaagAlerts) October 4, 2015
خان صاب جب میاں صاب کے خلاف الیکشن لڑنےکا وقت تھاتب کیوں میدان سےبھاگ گئے تھے؟
آپ کو عادت ہے ٹی وی پر بھڑکیں مارنے کی pic.twitter.com/O1J8ABb52e
— Rana Shazib Khan (@RmShazib) August 28, 2015
Murad Saeed's degree: Teachers threaten to quit after govt committee recommends sacking UoP VC
PESHAWAR:
The saga of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MNA Murad Saeed’s degree took a new turn on Friday when the Peshawar University’s teacher’s association threatened to quit after a government committee recommended removing the varsity’s vice chancellor to resolve the matter.
MPA Saeed’s degree was challenged when student group Pukhtoon Students Federation accused him of passing his Remote Sensing, Introduction to Environmental Sciences and Ecology papers in one hour.
Saeed subsequently approached the high court. In his petition, the MNA argued that he had attended UoP from 2005 to 2009 for his undergraduate studies and passed all his courses in the said timeframe. The environmental sciences department chairman had issued a course completion certificate on November 26, 2009 and despite repeated attempts, Saeed was informed the varsity administration will send his degree by post. The varsity had later argued that Saeed still needed to clear three papers.
Later, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government had established a committee, empowering the additional secretary higher education and additional secretary law to probe the matter. However, there was a “split” between the reports from both officials.
A summary forwarded to the K-P CM by the secretary of the Higher Education Department, copies of which are available with The Express Tribune, notes that efforts were made to “develop a consensus” between both reports, but that these efforts “did not succeed”.
The summary of the report holds UoP Vice Chancellor Rasool Jaan responsible, stating that MNA Saeed was deliberately being denied his degree. In his report, secretary education charged the VC with misconduct, advocating his removal under the amended university act of 2015.
The summary recommends that the chief minister advise K-P governor, who is also the chancellor of UoP, to sack the vice chancellor Jaan.
The decision, however, was met with opposition in UoP sparking wide spread protests amongst professors at the university on Friday evening,
Jamil Ahmad Chitral, a representative of the Friends group — which had won the recent Peshawar University Teachers Association (Puta) elections, told The Express Tribune that recommendations made by the secretary were unfair.
“If the government will politicise the education system it will have serious repercussions,” he warned, adding that if the decision is formalised, hundreds of teachers across the province will quit in protest.
“Why does the university of Peshawar, one of the oldest varsities in the country, have to suffer for the degree of a single MNA.”
Other teachers of the university who were contacted were unaware of the decision, but they agreed with Chitrali that if the vice chancellor is removed it will further complicate matters.
Smokers’ Corner: Khan’s Achilles ear
Recently the volatile leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI), Imran Khan, told a renowned TV anchor (in an interview) that his persistent allegations against veteran journalist, Najam Sethi, were just a ‘political statement’.
Since last year, Khan had been insisting that Sethi (who was Punjab’s caretaker chief minister during the May 2013 election), had been instrumental in engineering the results in PML-N’s favour by applying ‘35 punctures’ (or making sure Khan’s PTI lost on at least 35 seats in the Punjab).
Sethi has been vehemently refuting the allegations, suggesting that Khan, who was convinced that he would sweep the election, just couldn’t swallow the defeat his party received in Pakistan’s largest province and was now making unsubstantiated allegations and looking for scapegoats.
Sethi also lodged a case against Khan in the courts. During the proceedings at the Supreme Court where PTI was asked to provide evidence for what it alleges is a ‘stolen election’, Khan and his lawyers did not mention anything about Sethi and his 35 punctures.
Believing in malicious rumours and gossip can sometimes be bad for your own reputation
Finally, during a TV interview last week, Khan casually dismissed his own accusation against Sethi as ‘merely a political statement’. His comment was lambasted in the media and the very next day a senior PTI leader, Dr Arif Alvi, tweeted an apology for PTI’s accusations against Sethi, saying the party had just commented on what it had heard from others.
Things then turned even more bizarre when Alvi was derided by some other senior leaders of the PTI for publically rendering an apology, so much so that Alvi then had to actually apologise for apologising!
Khan and his party have so far failed to provide any evidence whatsoever in this regard. And so haven’t the two controversial TV anchors who were echoing Khan’s conspiratorial mantra.
One anchor even claimed that he had a recorded tape that has a conversation in which Sethi himself boasts of having rigged the election in Punjab. Sethi took the anchor to court as well and no such tape emerged.
Things continued to get bizarre, though, when after facing severe criticism in the media and from some of his own supporters for confessing that his ‘35 punctures’ allegations were derived from what he had heard from some other people and that the accusation was just a political statement, Khan rebounded to now claim that Sethi did not apply 35 punctures, but 71!
Though by now the media is largely treating his new statement as a farce, various political commentators have suggested that Khan has become a hostage of bad advice being provided to him by some of his closest associates in the PTI.
At least two such commentators claimed that Khan has ‘weak ears’ (Kachay Kaan) and he readily believes in whatever is fed to him by his close confidants in the party.
This is an interesting observation because this is exactly what veteran cricket journalist, Qamar Ahmed, said in Karachi a few months ago. Chatting with his old BBC Urdu colleagues, Mohammad Hanif (author / journalist) and Mazhar Zaidi (former journalist and now a film-maker) and me at a party, Qamar was giving us details of a book that he was writing (on his 40-plus-year career as a cricket journalist).
He also brought up an episode that Javed Miandad mentioned in his autobiography in which he claimed how some time in the 1980s, Imran and Qamar, almost came to blows over some trivial issue in England.
Qamar Ahmed who has been settled in England for decades was the go-to man for most Pakistani cricketers arriving in that country to play county cricket. He would graciously let them stay in his apartment and would guide them about the ins and outs of life in England.
Khan and Miandad too stayed with Qamar when they began their county careers in the late 1970s and Miandad wrote in his book that this arrangement came to an end when Khan and Qamar had a serious falling out.
Qamar told us that Miandad (for some odd reason) confused the time period in which the altercation took place. According to Qamar, the squabble between Imran and him actually ensued during the 1992 Cricket World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
‘Imran was a great cricketer and captain, but very vulnerable to rumours fed to him by his close colleagues … ’ Qamar told us. He and Imran had been very close, until he bumped into him in the plane that was carrying the Pakistan team from one Australian city to another during the 1992 World Cup.
Qamar waved and said hello to him only to receive an angry reply and an order to stay away from the team. Taken aback, Qmar responded in kind.
Meanwhile, Javed — who was sitting on one of the seats in the row that separated an angry Imran from a shocked but seething Qamar — jumped up and rapidly moved towards Qamar, telling him ‘Iss sey duur raho, Qamar Bhai, chor doh …’ (stay away from him, let it be).
According to Qamar, Miandad intervened again when Khan and Qamar were about to clash again at the baggage claim area, and this time Miandad bounced in to say: Yaar Qamar bhai, aap koh bola tha iss sey duur raho …!’ (I told you to stay away from him, Qamar Bhai).
Later in the tournament, Miandad informed Qamar that some journalist had told Imran that after Imran’s team had lost a game and Khan had gotten injured, Qamar was seen dancing and rejoicing in the commentary box.
Qamar told Miandad that nothing of the sort ever happened, but Miandad (in his own distinct style of speaking) kept telling him, ‘Chor den, Qamar Bhai, Chor den …’
As a consequence, on Imran’s instructions, Qamar Ahmed, the most senior Pakistani cricket journalist, was boycotted by the Pakistan team throughout the World Cup.
It took another 10 years for the misunderstanding to clear. Qamar says that in the early 2000s, long after Khan had retired and become a politician, he met Qamar at a gathering and finally apologised to him.
Qamar said: ‘He saw me, but I ignored him, because I was still angry with him. But he approached me, smiling, and said, forget about it Qamar, it was just a misunderstanding … ’
Yes, just like that.
Published in Dawn, Sunday Magazine, July 12th, 2015
35 punctures - the real story
Now now, I might not have followed the 35 punctures story last year, but that doesn’t mean I can’t be up at 3:30 in the morning to write about it.
But first, how many of you saw Friday’s Aapas Ki Baat? What a show! Watch it if you haven’t already, and if possible watch it in 3D with a bag of caramel popcorn, ice-cream soda and dark glasses. This bucket has fireworks babes.
But the real reason I am doing my early morning rise and shine is not the fireworks or the punctures, but the various shades of logic that emerge on my Twitter timeline as one PTI supporter after another talks deep stuff about the story.
I think Najam Sethi should write a bestseller and call it Fifty Shades of Bray, and dedicate it to the PTI youth supporters on Twitter. Seriously people, Pakistani youth on Twitter supporting what is increasingly becoming quite a hotchpotch of twists and (u) turns is worth monitoring if truth is to be told about how the young people of Pakistan think these days.
This mass production of youth, educated by the unregulated private schooling mafia, is being herded by a party that’s increasingly becoming infested with confusions and contradictions (and yes U-turns)! To think that these young people will soon be let loose on the future of Pakistan. These young people who are so devoid of logical reasoning, and so reluctant to question their sacred gods that it scares me to think that these are the decision-makers of our future generations. What a time bomb waiting to detonate on us.
So trying to be useful at 3am, I very carefully analyse this raw data and categorise it into 35 categories (this is me trying to be ironic). I hereby present to you my very own version of the PTI’s 35 punctures.
Punctures no 1-5: The complete denial category. Remember what Meera once said to Mubashir Luqman with a very straight face? “This is a fack video.” Similarly there is a type of PTI supporters that is in complete denial about the party’s human follies. These are the conspiracy theorists, the soothsayers, the I-know-better guys, the time-will-tell people, and the IK-can-do-no-wrong crowd. “This in nothing but IK’s wisdom laying eggs”, they say. “You just wait and see”. And for special effect they start their tweets in the name of all that is holy and end them with some very colourful adjectives all in 140 characters.
Puncture no 6-10: The partial denial clique. This is the group that comprises the haters, the completely stubborn, the completely smitten, the completely loyal and the completely idiotic. Though reluctantly they all admit that the 35 punctures story lacks evidence so far, but what does it matter right? Even if it was without evidence Geo is still bad and Najam Sethi is still evil, and this is the theme we are always sticking to – even if IK ditches us and does solo interviews on Geo and later goes kite flying with Najam Sethi in the meadows. #U-turn.
Puncture no 11: Let’s change the topic puncture. This is the group that simply answers all questions with a single-track approach. We will talk about metro and we will talk about patwaris, and when all else fails we will talk about tabdeeli. #Bhabi please RT. Oye! Idiot. #achasorry
Puncture no 12-13: The accuser and the abuser. Oye, puncture vuncture whatever, but look at the lifafa journalists and look at the funding coming from India and look at this four letter word here, yes. #censorthishashtag. Done. Bhabi please RT #Iheartyou.
Puncture no 14-16: The artist, the peacemaker and the Photoshop guys. These are the talented ones amongst the PTI supporters and they believe in peace through art and craft (mostly Photoshop). What 35 punctures you idiots, they will say. Look here is a picture of Khan, and look how handsome he looks wearing a Superman costume and riding an SSG falcon while shooting 35 arrows on an American flag hoisted on a cricket bat doing Kung Fu with an Indian pigeon with 35 beaks. #onlyhope.
Puncture no 17-18: Puncture the traitor-slayer. Well since the puncture story has been debunked, let’s blame it all on India. Or else check out what’s happening in the Middle East. #35 punctures chor do, char halqay khol do.
Puncture no 19: The ultimate matchmaker puncture. East or west, Sheikh Rasheed is the best. IK Sheikh Rasheed bhai bhai. #saynotopride.
Puncture no 20: The hashtag generator. This by far is the most dangerous of the puncture category because it’s called ‘let’s divert everybody’s attention with an irrelevant hashtag’. Please for the love of God, PTI you are very good at starting trends on the social media. Please be responsible with what you generate. Sometimes #wehateNawazSharif has got nothing to do with the answers we want from your leaders.
Puncture no 21: The real-issue guys. These are the super sanguine people and all they have to say is chaddo jee, the real issue is not 35 punctures, but the real issue is the PCB appointment and the more real issue is Lola the showgirl. What about that, hain jee? #Copacabana #stupidmedia.
Puncture no 23-25: The moral brigade, the IK worshippers, and the let’s forgive IK advocates: These are the factions who have a lot of moral values especially for Sethi and are constantly micro-blogging short sermons in multiple instalments about how a journalist should never talk about personal stuff in a program and should never cast aspersions on the national integrity of a national leader no matter how much aspersions are cast on the non-national integrity of a non-leader national. #NoonLeagueHaiHai #PleaseforgiveIK. #BasAikGhaltiAur.
Puncture no 26-31: The clueless mafia. This is the category that is basically just that. Clueless. They are a herd of goats and this is how they operate. If no 26 is overjoyed that at last the 35 puncture story has been proven right (because he had a dream about it) then no 27-31 are overjoyed too and are already tweeting national anthems about it with hashtag: PTI ki shaan Bhabi Jaan. #Let’sbanShirinMazari.
Puncture no 32: The misogynist and the Malala hater. #MyLipsAreSealed.
Puncture no 33: The poet puncture. So this is the poetry this person is writing the moment he sees Aapas ki Baat. Roses are red, violets are blue. I love IK but IK loves you. (Bhabi please RT)
Puncture 34: The ‘let’s tweet like Bhabi’ puncture. Don’t you dare make fun of my hubby. My hubby will ban you. My hubby is the one hero produced in the country. #selfie on a prayer mat #IAmNotEnteringPolitics. #BhabiMakesPoliticalSpeech
Puncture 35: The ‘let’s talk like IK’ puncture. Five days ago: Oye. Meri wife politics main kabhi nain aaye gee. Five days later: Oye. Meri wife politics main aa nahi rahi… aa gaee hai. #IKIsTheMan.
On a serious note, PTI, darling, say something. I’m giving up on you (courtesy: The Great Big World). I still remember the first time I met the core members of the PTI all together in a room and my first reaction was: these are the people who represent me and mine. Middle class, educated, hardworking, honest, wanting a prosperous Pakistan because they believe in it not because they want something from it.
And now I look at the PTI’s fast-changing image and I wonder if I was too naïve all along. There is nothing wrong about Reham Khan becoming the official face of a party that says no to family politics. Spouses all over the world do make public appearances. But the new kind of photo-ops that emerge on the media are largely overshadowing the PTI’s purposeful, intelligent, profound image of the past. When earlier we thought about the PTI, we thought about people like Andaleeb Abbas and Asad Umar, Dr Yasmeen and Shafqat Mahmood. Now it’s as if the seriousness of purpose has suddenly turned into a farce.
A very bad caricature of its original self, the PTI is just an overly exposed jumble of controversies and confusions, silly statements, self praise, frivolity, and zero tolerance for dissent. As a firm believer of the PTI’s core values, I don’t see the party ever losing its support because Imran Khan’s star factor will always pull it up, but if the promise of real change has to be fulfilled then gloating over popularity should not be enough.
Don’t isolate the more idealistic core of PTI supporters. Do away with the plastic. Bring the genuineness back. Bring the clarity back. Bring the honesty back. Bring the fire back. #IKpleaseRT.
The writer is an MSc candidate at the University of Oxford.
Email: adiahafraz@gmail.com
Punctured ego
OCCASIONALLY, two plus two can equal five. Or, in the world of the PTI, 35 minus 35 can equal 71. And that’s why it is possible, occasionally, in the PTI world again, for an apology to be apologised for. For the few who care to remember and the even fewer who grasped the faux-logic, there is the peculiar tale of 35 punctures. Allegedly, once upon a time, two years ago, the PTI believed it was going to give the PML-N a real scare in Punjab. Some in the PTI even believed the party would trounce the PML-N in elections. Then, on election night, when it turned out the trouncing was not done to the PML-N, but by the PML-N, a legend was born: 35 punctures. Somehow, the alleged architect-in-chief, then caretaker chief minister Najam Sethi, decided to gloat about his achievement in scuttling 35 victories of the PTI to the chief beneficiary and incoming prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, over the telephone. Somehow, the alleged conversation was allegedly recorded. And somehow — the alleged chain of conversation would put a game of Chinese whispers to shame — the PTI learned of the Sethi-Sharif conversation and so was born the legend that the PTI obsessed over.
Now, having embarrassingly failed to even bring up the issue of 35 punctures before the judicial commission, Imran Khan has once again stunned the PTI’s critics. The PTI didn’t bring up 35 punctures because it was actually 71 punctures, Mr Khan claimed on Sunday. Double the punctures should mean double the evidence, but in at least one way the PTI has been consistent with the laws of mathematics. Since originally zero evidence was provided, doubling that zero would also mean zero evidence — which is exactly what Mr Khan or the PTI has provided. But politics is nothing if not for the brave, or perhaps just the foolhardy. Except no one in the PTI would like to question 71 punctures. After all, Arif Alvi bravely tried to own up to being wrong about 35 punctures and look what trouble that got him in.
Published in Dawn, July 7th, 2015
