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    Quote Originally Posted by Spud View Post
    wary of dipping my toes into this thread for some reason

    Anyway ... the NYT article is a cut from a quite a detailed interview in the latest Columbia Journalism Review

    Probably a better a source document for this discussion



    http://www.cjr.org/the_water_cooler/...t.php?page=all
    You may want to look at today's Peshawar FRONTIER POST letters column for a radical Muslim's attack on the effectiveness of an interview in Pashto in the NWFP by a Voice of America inside Pakistan radio correspondent.

    See: http://www.thefrontierpost.com/News....cat=le&nid=361

    Separately, I asked the first of only three questions of Senator McCain when here for a rally this past Monday, again on Voice of America. His answer was very postive and thorough and lasted over 10 minutes! Good stuff all around.

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    Default As Internet citation is now Sunday here is the Sat. ltr.

    Today is:
    Saturday, April 26, 2008, Rabi-us-Sani 19, 1429 A.H.

    For Brig (Ret) Mehmood Shah
    Muhammad Fahim Timergara, Dir faheemdir@yahoo.com

    While talking to Dewa Radio (Pakhto Program) of the VOA. on the evening of April 23, 2008, the learned Shah Sahib completely denied the promulgation of Sharia law in the tribal agencies of Pakistan. The plea taken was that no basic preparations for the impositon of the Divine law has been done in the country and as such it is impossible to promulgate it. It is recalled that while debating the FCR law of the Frontier Region' most of the tribesmen have voiced for Sharia in case the notorious law of the colonial era is abolished. The tribal people are real muslims and they will never agree to any other system short of Islam. I am sure that a man of the status of Shah Sahib shoud not be unaware of the huge research and juristic work that has been accompished during the past four decades. The huge almirahs of the Council of Islamic Ideology of Pakistan are heaped with valuable documents of their findings almost on all aspects of life. It only needs a will of those at the helm of the affairs and influencials like Shah Sahib. Mind that billions have been spent on this proposition. We are committed to our pledge with Almighty Allah that we made at the time of our struggle for independence. We are committed to the sacred blood of our sisters, mothers, daughters and brethern that was shed only for 'Pakistan Ka Matlab Kiya La Ilaha lLLallah'. We are committed to the words of the Quide and the dreams of the Ideologue of the country. The unfortunate thing is that the foreign media particulary the radio channels run by the VOA for brainwashing of Pakistanis are determined to host only the secular element for their progammes and give few chances to the asecular ones. The main cause of national suffering is that we have forgotten our goal and aim of building a Pakistan in accordance with the wishes of its founder Father. I must remind Mehmood Shah Sahib and others who have similar views that they should give a second thought to their presumption of Sharia as not applicable. We should understand that Sharia is the Divine law can equally work in the collective life as it is in the case of individual. It is time that we repent and revert to God lest another tragedy (God forbid) of the then East Pakistan befalls on us. Time is running past.

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