The Mafia Times (Pvt) launches Aaj Kal
13-02-2008
* Urdu newspaper by pro-Musharraf mafia group to be voice to reconcile
Paksitan’s national and religious identify with the agenda of the neocons
Zionists and the warlords in the US.
* Thrived under the wings of a tyrant, the paper claims it “will promote
democracy and attack extremism.”
* Great opportunity for attracting CIA dollars earmarked for a 'war within
Islam."
The Mafia Times (Pvt) launches Aaj Kal
* Urdu newspaper by pro-Musharraf mafia group to be voice to reconcile
Paksitan’s national and religious identify with that of the neocons Zionists and
the warlords in the US.
* Thrived under the wings a a tyrant, the paper claims it “will promote
democracy and attack extremism.”
* Great opportunity for attracting CIA dollars
DictatorshipWatch.com Report
LAHORE: The Mafia Times (Pvt) Ltd, - known as Media Times (Pvt) Ltd, following
the success of Daily Times, under the wings of General Musharraf and his masters
in Washington, has launched its Urdu newspaper Aaj Kal, with the intention to
further spread lies and deceptions for the US war of terror and the “war within
Islam.” This will further sow the seeds of divisions among Muslims – the less
educated Paksitanis in particular who could not access it English pack of lies
and deceptions.
The launch was announced at a ceremony held at Royal Palm Club on Monday, with
former naïve and gullible prime minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif as chief guest.
Many myopic social, political and media bigwigs were also present.
Najam Sethi, editor-in-chief of Daily Times and Aaj Kal, said the new newspaper
would fulfil the demand of people who wanted an Urdu paper based on the lines of
Daily Times, as if those who couldn’t read English somehow knew that this is a
better and superior source of news and information – without actually being able
to read it in the first place.
Following his mentor, General Musharraf’s words and policy, Sethi said Aaj Kal
would help set the country’s future direction by giving it a liberal, modern,
progressive and democratic look. He said the newspaper would raise the voice for
human rights, which it did not do in its English version. So far, we did not
witness a single, exclusive, in depth, investigative story about the plight of
the hundreds, if not thousands, missing people languishing in the ISI and other
agencies’ detention centres. He said his papers will defend the rights of
“businessmen and supremacy of parliament.” He said it would also urge the
Pakistan Army to return to the barracks, which it didn’t do in its English
version so far. May be he said so because Nawaz Sharif was the chief guest of
the launching ceremony.
Seeing the imminent departure of Musharraf, Najam Sethi showered love and
respect on Nawaz Sharif, probably seeing him to be at the top seat in the near
future. If we remember correctly, this paper was extremely critical of Nawaz
Sharif when he was in power. This shows hypocrisy and duplicity of Najam Sethi,
who is trying to tell us as if Nawaz Sharif is not the same person he used to
criticise. Did Nawaz Sharif went through a transformation process or Najam Sethi
learned how to be duplicitous and hypocrite, is yet to be seen in the coming
days. Sethi praised the former prime minister for going to Naudero to pray at
Benazir Bhutto’s grave.
Another secularist, Salmaan Taseer, publisher of Daily Times and Aaj Kal, went
on with the now well-known twisting of history and facts mission, and said Aaj
Kal would fulfil Pakistan founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s dream of making Pakistan
a liberal, secular and progressive state. He also kept regurgitating the same
deceptive terminology. He said, Aaj Kal would promote a liberal, modern and
progressive Pakistan. He said that in this struggle, he had not interfered in
the newspaper’s policy or editorial.
Former women’s development minister Nilofar Bakhtiar, who was widely criticised
for hugging and kissing a French parachute instructor, praised and supported the
liberal policy of Media Times, saying newspaper groups went from Urdu to
English, but this was the first newspaper that moved from English to Urdu
because of its demand.
Submitted by a Mujahid