Local technology exports lauded

PESHAWAR: Locally-made technology used in vacuums

PESHAWAR, June 28: Local technology for creating vacuum has been used in most of the recent infrastructure improvement in the province, sources say. The sources said the traders did not have to transport such technology as they could be manufactured in the cities where the improvements were carried out using certain material available locally.

They said the recent improvements in CD shops in Charsadda, Tank, Mardan and Peshawar had been caused by locally-made vaccum.

Infrastruction and transbortation neuj

New ATR aircraft joins national heap

The scale of improvement in music publishing has reached a new height with an entire market (two dozen shopkeepers) making it music catalogs islamic - overnight

Moderate enlightenment is progressing fast, aided by sporadic air vacuum formations. Now if the government will keep the mullahs from issuing fatwas outlawing moderate enlightenment just a tad longer, I am sure Pakistan will convert into a progressive member of the comity of nations in very short order.

Music aficionados protest bad quality recordings in Swabi

Music aficionados protest bad quality recordings in Swabi
By our correspondent, Cultural coffee table, NSN

SWABI (NSN): People of the Haryan village carried out a tumultuous protest against poor quality recordings after friday prayers. Terming them dangerous for the young generation, they regretted the lost melodies of Noor jehan, Nusrat fateh Ali and other respected artists. Protest leaders exhorted the audience to beware of the foreign hand that is feeding this cultural poison to the unsuspecting and innocent youth of Pakistan. Maulana Shamsi Khan, Maulana Shakirullah, Maulana Abdullah and President Ittehad-i-Kashthkaran Muhammad Arif lead the people in protest. They were unanimous in decrying piracy from across the border that is destroying the fledgling cottage Pakistani music Industry. Carrying banners and flags, the protesters held hands and sang Noor Jehan songs from the 60s. Later, a bonfire was lit for the enjoyment of the crowd. "This is one of the few ways young people can get together these days and not raise any suspicion", said Alhamidullah, who like most Pakistanis does not really use his name much, and was there with his friend.

Protest meetings are fast becoming social events in conservative Pakistan. Six days ago a noisy air vacuum protest shuttered another CD shop in Shewa Adda, and deterred another three shops. It also sent a clear warning to shop owners to improve their business practices. When contacted about the incident, federal tourism minister Ms.Nilofar Bakhtiar said there were plans to promote all kinds of social gatherings in Pakistan during the "Visit Pakistan 2007" initiative. Protest meetings can be a unique tourist attraction and great foreign exchange earners if only people were more understanding about Pakistani society, she noted.

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Protection of culture: Taliban made to face music

Protection of culture: Taliban made to face music Sulaiman bin Hidayath Al-Beshawari Abblikation pindi (Copyright NSN). March 1, 2007 PESHAWAR (NSN): In a stunning reversal of the hardline fundamentalist policies of the Taliban, Mullah Obaidullah Akhund, deputy to the elusive one-eyed bearded fundamentalist spiritual chief and former Pakistan supported ruler of Afghanistan, Mullah Mohammad Omar was taken to a music performance in Quetta, a federal government official has told reporters. The Mullah was made to face the music on Monday, the official said, requesting anonymity due to sensitivity of the matter. It seems the US vice-president had shown hard and firm facts about the Mullah to President Musharraf, undercutting his (tall) stories (about Taliban being in Afghanistan). "It was very unfair", noted the offical adding, "the president was not looking, he was picking (on) a scrap of paper, when the facts were presented". The president likes the firm and hard facts presented to his face. The Taliban leader carried a $1 million reward and is the most senior Taliban figure captured ever. Pakistan regularly captures the Al-qaeda #3 after facts are presented to it by the US administration. Pakistan has collected millions of dollars in bounty from captured taliban and Al-qaeda. It plans to use the money for development in Baluchistan, Waziristan, FATA, and other parts of NWFP. This time President Musharraf was outnumbered, given the hardness of the firm facts both from the CIA deputy-director as well the vice-president, decided it was time to bend (to their requests) and elevate the capture to a #2. His arrest came the day US Vice-President Dick Cheney declined to spend the night after visiting Islamabad. It is also understood that Musharraf's stipend was in danger if he did not coopulate. The new Democratic Congress could cut aid unless Pakistan improves its performance. So there was an extra session with the deputy director to take back unbiased opinion for the congress. Officials however, denied there was a link with Mr Cheney’s visit and the action which led to his arrest had been planned in advance based on good intelligence."His visa had expired", said the official. The official declined to give further information but said that two others who were captured along with Mullah Obaidullah “could be” Amir Khan Haqqani, a Taliban commander in Zabul, and Abdul Bari, the former governor of Helmand province. It seems that Musharraf's heart was broken when the vice-president involved the deputy director of the CIA in the revelry. "He thought it was a monogamous relationship", noted the official. The president is trying hard to firmly get back in the fair and good books of the vice-president again. NATO officials and western diplomats consider Mullah Obaidullah as one of those closest lieutenants of Mullah Omar. The other two were Mullah Akhtar Osmani and Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor. Pakistan is keeping the other 9 (or 17) members of the Taliban leadership council safe until the full complement of its 96 F-16 fighters is delivered. Pakistanies had run out of polish for their older F-16s after the September 11 attacks. It is considered dirty to have unpolished missiles or planes in deeply conservative Pakistan. Mullah Osmani, who was a former Taliban army chief, was killed in a US air strike in Helmand in December last year. His death was a blow to Pakistani plans for a winter offensive in Afghanistan. "The government still believes it can resurrect the strategic depth", note the official. Now with the spring offensive also under threat, Pakistan will have its work cut out to restore its strategic depth. Hailing from Punjwai district of Kandahar province, Mullah Obaidullah Akhund was widely considered as the military chief of Taliban forces. It may take a day or two for Pakistan to find a replacement for him to lead Taliban's military strategy. "He had wide body (of experience)", said the official. Previous number three captures from Pakistan include Former Taliban spokesman Abdul Latif Hakimi who is said to have given the street disclosed the street address of the Mullah to the americans, "We are surprised he could not take the littlest bit of torture", said a Taliban spokesman in Peshawar. "Quetta is becoming quite unbearable", he noted adding that beheadings had stopped having an effect on the spies. When asked if the arrest of Mullah Omar’s deputy had put the security agencies anywhere close to the elusive Taliban leader, the official said: “Only two of the planes have been delivered so far, and we have also been exhausting the supply of missiles", adding "Had a squadron or two been delivered, he would have been taken by now.” Pakistan, a deeply conservative muslim moderate nation of 160 million, is aiming for leadership of the muslim world under its martial president Musharraf, who has turned (around) the countries economy from being based upon drug money to one based on fake notes, and money from blackmailing america. Pakistan places great importance upon its F-16 planes, which are routinely polished with the finest wax (derived from sacred goats) and displays them as part of its cultural heritage at all national events. --------------------------------- Agencies (AP) contributed to this report. Advertisements wanted: our news is read, not just used for goat fodder!! This is again ( jop abblication bindi (batent bindi), but really mostly from the wires) NSN

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