From: zafir@unssun.nevada.edu (Zia Zafir)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: PSAI Project Pakistan News
Date: 19 Nov 92 02:59:12 GMT
Reply-To: zafir@unssun.nevada.edu (Zia Zafir)
Organization: University of Nevada, Reno

From: Zia Zafir
PSAI Project Pakistan News
zafir@unssun.nevada.edu

The Pakistan Link: (Oct. 18-31)
Nazm by Haji Muhammad Yousuf:

     This is tha nazm written by Haji Muhammad Yousuf and published in the
Islamabad edition of the English daily The News.  For publishing this nazm,
the editor-in-chief, editor and the reporter were charged with sedition. 
Later, the government withdrew the charge which was to be heard by special
summary court.

			haai tera Pakistan Haai mera pakistan
haiN zaalim jis kay hukmaraan              dasht gard daako sultaan
taaj company cooperative buhraan           loot maar ka hai nishaan
                        haai tera Pakistan Haai mera Pakistan
loot gaye haiN loot gaye                   mera saara Pakistan
                            bachaalo bachaalo Pakistan
                        haai tera Pakistan Haai mera Pakistan
aik taraf shariat bill                     aik taraf mehngaai hai
booRhay roaiN bachchay roaiN               har taraf duhaai hai
wah ray teri hukoomat mian                 kaisa tera iman hai
                        mera Pakistan hai ya tera Pakistan hai?
sharif haiN shareer haiN                   wazeer bay zameer haiN
lab peh unkay Pakistan                     andar khana lootistan
                           bachaalo bachaalo Pakistan
                        Haai tera Pakistan haai mera Pakistan
Pakistani siyasatdaan                      jab say huay haiN hukamraan
rahi na ab unki pehchaan                   kaun hai Muslim kaun shaitaan
baghal maiN lay kar paak Quran             khaa gaye saara Pakistan
                           bachaalo bachaalo Pakistan
                        Haai mera Pakistan haai tera Pakistan
cooperative loot machi                     Taj company ki khasot machi
Pakistani siyasatdaan                      qaumi assembly kay arakaan
loot maar ka haiN nishaan                  bolaiN ye islam islam
lay lay kar awaam ka naam                  loot rahay haiN Pakistan
                        haai mera Pakistan haai tera Pakistan
muta'sareen Taj company                    saathi cooperative buhraan
lay lo haath maiN teer kamaan              kar do unko lahoo lahaan
bhaag na paaeN ye shaitaan                 hai ye Allah ka farmaan
kar kay saara khazaana kahaali             baitul maal peh nazr hai daali
kaun karay uski rakhwaali                  lootay jis ko baagh ka maali
jaag mujahid ab to jaag                    qaum kay heero Asif jaanbaz
ab to apna farz pehchaan                   doob raha hai Pakistan
aao saaray Yousuf kay yaaro                Quran kay badlay lootaiN maaro
                            cooperative ka buhraan
lay lo haath maiN teer kamaan              kar do unko lahoo lahaan
bhaag na paaeN ye shaitaan                 hai ye Allah ka farmaan
                       haai tera Pakistan haai mera Pakistan

Note:  Teer Kamaan (bow and arrow) was the election symbol of PPP
       Asif jaanbaz means COAS Asif Nawaz Janjua

The Economist: (Oct. 31 - Nov. 6, 1992)
Bhutto's March:

     Wherever she goes in Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto is mobbed by enthusiastic
crowds.  Journalists hang on her every word.  Is she going for the kill by
rallying opposition to the prime minister, Nawza Sharif, in a n attempt to
force a general election?
     It won't be easy.  Since 1977, when prolonged street frenzy provoked the
army to topple her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, no Pakistani government has
succumbed to the politics of mass agitation.  Given two hectic elections in the
past four years, few people want another just yet.  Last month's floods have
uprooted millions of people in Punjab and thoughts of an election are far from
their minds as they try to rebuild their lives.  Why, then, should Mr. Sharif
give the impression of being besieged?
     The prime minister's ruling Islamic Democratic Alliance exists in name
only: several alliance partners have left after finding Mr. Sharif reluctant
to share the spoils of office.  Now he is turning on Miss Bhutto, but by doing
so he has only succeeded in breathing new life into her party, which is widely
seen as much-maligned underdog.
     Mr. Sharif's relations with the press have alos soured.  In a parliamentarydebate in August, an opposition MP accused the government of planning to
"eliminate" ten prominent journalists.  Although this was denied, subsequent
events suggest that some of Mr. Sharif's associates may have indeed decided to 
teach the press a lesson.  One journalist on the alleged hit list, Ghulam
Hussain, has been arrested on trumped-up charges and forced to close his paper.
Another, Shaheen Sehbai, has been roughed up by thugs.
     In a much-publicised case the editors of the Jang/News group, Shakil ur 
Rahman and Maleeha Lodhi, were foolishly charged with sedition for publishing
a poem.  Mr. Sharif was obliged to backtrack when journalists united to boycott
parliament and took to the streets in protest.  The police Special Branch has
begun to compile dossiers on journalists, who therefore fear they may be next in
the firing line.  Small wonder the press is hostile to the prime minister.
     Now the government has decided that the identity cards of all Pakistanis
will note their religion.  In a mostly Muslim country in which no two religious
groups can agree on who or what constitutes a true Muslim, this is bound to fan
sectarianism and discriminate against non-Muslims.  Some believe Mr. Sharif is
clutching at the mullahs for support because he is losing his grip.
     Mr. Sharif's relations with the army are alos tense.  The army says it has
restored law and order in Sindh and wants to return to barracks.  No, says the
government, it must stay in Sindh to give support to the embattled provincial
government of Muzaffar Shah.  Senior army officers say the army should not
become partisan and "allow its name to be dragged in the mud".
     Miss Bhutto aims to exploit Mr. Sharif's difficulties.  She has announced
a programme of rallies throughout Pakistan, culminating in a "long march" to
the capital, Islamabad, in Novemeber.  Other opposition leaders agree that
Mr. Sharif must go, though they are unclear how to get him out.  Mr. Sharif
may not be finished, but the next few months will be testing for him.

Arab News:
Sindh MPs Reject Change in ID Card:

Islamabad, Nov. 3 (R) -- A provincial assembly has defied the government by 
rejecting a move to force all Pakistanis to list their religion on identity
cards.  The assembly in the southern province of Sindh late yesterday
unanimously adopted a resolution against the government's decision last month
to add a religion column to identity cards.
     "The national identity cards of other countries have name, nationality 
and number only.  They do not have a religion column.  We do not want a 
situation in Pakistan," minority assembly member Hoshang Baroacha said today.
"The religion column will lead to discrimination," independent member Amir
Haider Shah said.
     The defiant move signals the most serious challenge so far to Prime
Minsiter Nawaz Sharif bid to force Pakistan's 120 million people to declare
their religious beliefs on national identity cards.  Such declaration would leadto sectarianism, warned Sindh oppositon memeber Saleem Khokhar who tabled the 
motion.
     "Our movement will not suffer because of such resolutions, rather the 
dormant forces have been identified," Religious Affairs Minister Abdul Sattar
Kahn Niazi said in an interview.
     "We are a nation based on ideology ... and are thus bound to declare our
religion," he said.  The column would help to protect the rights of Pakistan's
Christian, Hindu, Sikh and other minorities.  He dismissed fears it would 
encourage discrimination against non-Muslims.  "Minorities will have full
rights," he said.
     However, he said, the column was intended to differentiate between Muslims
and Ahmadis, a sect declared non-Muslim and heretical in 1974.

*End of News Article*

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Zia Zafir
University of Nevada, Reno

PSAI Project Pakistan News

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