Dr Ketan and Dr Salimi

Dear Billa G

Asalam-o-laikum

Dr. Wasim Ketan here from Lahore Pakistan, Happy New Year to every
SohniDhartian. I'm greeting you after a week but never mind one week is not
very long. In Lahore the weather is really cold and dry, with lots of
'katha mitti', making it hard to go out and when you come back home you can
find lots of dust lying in your nose. The skin gets very dry and changes
the skin colour. I was suppose to leave in two hours time for New Zealand
but due to heavy fog the flights schedule has been changed, so i'll be
leaving tomorow at midday and arriving in Auckland on Friday afternoon.

Wasalaam










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SARDAR

Sardar Gurbachan Singh is appearing for his University final examination. He takes his seat in the examination hall, stares at the question paper for five minutes, and then in a fit of inspiration takes his shoes off and throws them out of the window. He then removes his turban and throws it away as well. His shirt, pant, socks and watch follow suit.

The invigilator, alarmed, approaches him and asks what is going on. "Oye, I am only following the instructions yaar," he says, " it says here,
'Answer the following questions in brief'.".

2

An Englishman, an American and a Sardarji are called upon to test a lie detector . The Englishman says:
"I think I can empty 20 bottles of beer". BUZZZZZZ, goes the lie detector.
"Ok", he says, "10 bottles".
And the machine is silent.
The American says: "I think I can eat 15 hamburgers".
BUZZZZZZ, goes the lie detector.
"Allright, 8 hamburgers".
And the machine's silent.
The Sardarji says:
"I think...",
BUZZZZZZ goes the machine.

4

Having lost his donkey a Sardarji, got down to his knees and started thanking God. A passerby saw him and asked, "Your donkey is missing; what are you thanking God for ?"
The sardarji replied "I am thanking Him for seeing to it hat I wasn't riding the donkey at that time, otherwise I would have been missing too."

5

A sardarji with two red ears went to his doctor. The doctor asked him what had happened to his ears and he answered, "I was ironing a shirt and the phone rang - but instead of picking up the phone I accidentally picked up the iron and stuck it to my ear."
"Oh Dear!" the doctor exclaimed in disbelief. "But .. what happened to your other ear?"
"The scoundrel called back."

6

Our sardarji was filling up an application form for a job. He promptly filled the columns titled NAME,AGE,ADDRESS etc. Then he the column SEX. He was not sure as to what to be filled there. After much thought he wrote THRICE A WEEK. On seeing this in his appln. form, he was told that it was wrong and what they wanted it to be filled was either MALE or FEMALE. Again our sardar thought for a long time before coming up with the answer PREFERABLY FEMALES.

 

 

A sardarji was driving down the highway to Disneyland when he saw a sign that said "DISNEYLAND LEFT". After thinking for a minute, he said to himself "oh well !" and turned around and drove home.

22

A Master Thief in London was giving a Coaching Class on Stealing and had students from all over the world. The Indian happened to be a Sardar. After several grueling classes on Theory came the final and decisive class of all, a practical demo. The master took all his pupils to a house nearby in the darkness of night and entered that. But by mistake he overturns a vase.
Owner : Who's that?
Master: Miaooow...
The owner is satisfied and goes back to sleep. Mission accomplished. The sardar is very impressed. Returning to Punjab, he decides to open a similar class for his fellow sardars. Does so and follows the same schedule of theory classes. Then he goes for the demo with his pupils. Enters the house of a rich sardar in darkness, and tells the other sardars, " This are the various steps for stealing. You just observe. "
Firstly, he goes and overturns a vase.
Owner : Koun Hai ? ( Who's that ? )
Sardar : Mai Billi . ( I am the cat.)
Owner : Oh, Billi ( Oh. Cat. )
and goes back to sleep.

 

Sardarji: "Excuse me sir, what time is it?"
MAN: "It's 3:15."
sardarji: (puzzled look on his face) "You know, it's the wierdest thing, I have been asking that question all day, and each time I get a different answer."

 

Q: HOW DO YOU KEEP A SARDARJI BUSY ALL DAY?
A: Put him in a round room and tell him to sit in the corner.

Q: How do you make a sardarji laugh on Saturday?
A: Tell him a joke on Wednesday.

Q: Why did the sardarji stare at frozen orange juice can for 2 hours?
A: Because it said 'concentrate.

Q: How do you keep a sardarji busy?
A: Write 'Please turn over' on both sides of a piece of paper.

Q: Why can't sardarjis make ice cubes?
A: They always forget the recipe.

Q: How did the sardarji try to kill the bird?
A: He threw it off a cliff.

Q: Why did 18 sardarjis go to a movie?
A: Because below 18 was not allowed !!!

Q: What do you call a sardarji in an institution of higher learning?
A: A visitor.

Q: Why did the sardarji take his typewriter to the doctor ??
A: He thought it was pregnant because it missed a period.

Q: A sardarji ordered a pizza and the clerk asked if he should cut it in six or twelve pieces.
A: "Six, please. I could never eat twelve pieces."

sardarji #1: "Have you ever read Shakespeare?"
sardarji #2: "No, who wrote it?"

What about the sardarji wife who gave birth to twins?
Her husband is out looking for the other man

A sardar was walking along, when he looked up to observe a bird flying
overhead. Suddenly, the bird
dropped a load when it was directly over him. The Sardar says, "Good thing
that cows don't fly."

PAKISTAN ASSUMES ITS SEAT AS A NON-PERMANENT MEMBER OF THE UNITED NATIONS’ SECUR

PAKISTAN ASSUMES ITS SEAT AS A NON-PERMANENT MEMBER OF THE UNITED NATIONS’ SECURITY COUNCIL FOR A TWO-YEAR TERM (2003-2004) ON 1ST JANUARY, 2003.

Press Release, Islamabad 31 December 2002

Pakistan assumes its seat as a non-permanent member of the United Nations’ Security Council for a two-year term (2003-2004) on 1st January, 2003.

This is the 6th time that Pakistan has been elected to serve on the Security Council. Pakistan’s earlier terms were in 1993-94, 1983-84, 1976- 77, 1968-69 and 1952-53.

Pakistan was elected to the 15-member Security Council on 27 September 2002. Other countries elected to serve on the Council along with Pakistan were Angola, Chile, Germany and Spain. Cameron, Guinea, Syria, Bulgaria and Mexico will complete their term in December 2003.

The Council has five permanent members - China, France, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States. The remaining ten members are elected by the General Assembly.

Pakistan is strongly committed to the principles enshrined in the UN Charter. Since joining the United Nations in 1947 Pakistan has worked actively for the maintenance of international peace and security. Pakistan’s contribution is reflected in its prominent role for decades in UN peacekeeping operations across continents, its efforts for pacific settlement of disputes and its endeavors for equity and justice in the context of the economic and social issues on the global agenda.

Pakistan has joined the Security Council at a crucial juncture. We highly value the trust reposed in Pakistan by the UN membership. Pakistan would play its role in the Security Council with a deep sense of responsibility and in a constructive spirit.

Pakistan’s participation in Security Council deliberations would be consistent with our principled policies and guided by our high ideals. Pakistan will strive for advancing the UN Charter principles, notably those related to the maintenance of peace and security and the peaceful resolution of disputes.

In constructive collaboration with other members of the Security Council, Pakistan will work for the implementation of UN resolutions, and the achievement of the targets set in the Millennium Declaration towards a better and more peaceful world.

False Report

Sent By Pakistan High Commission 

 REPORT PUBLISHED IN LONDON TIMES IS COMPLETELY FALSE

Press Release, Islamabad 20 December 2002

When the attention of the Foreign Secretary was drawn to a report published today in London Times alleging that a Pakistani scientist had offered Iraq nuclear weapons designs in 1990, he termed this story as completely false, irresponsible and obviously motivated. The fact of the matter was that this allegation had surfaced in 1998 in a Newsweek article. The matter was thoroughly investigated at the request of the IAEA which is responsible for Iraqi nuclear disarmament and possesses all relevant information relating to the Iraqi nuclear program. The allegation proved to be completely false.

Consequently, the IAEA had written to the author of the story correspondent John Berry stating unequivocally that his story was "inconsistent with the information available to the IAEA". The Foreign Office was releasing to the press this official IAEA letter

to Newsweek which had effectively closed this matter. The present case was simply a malicious regurgitation of an allegation which had been found to be completely false.

The Foreign Secretary added that it was evident that the campaign of inspired leaks based on pure fiction was continuing following on the baseless allegations regarding Pakistan’s cooperation with North Korea. It was obvious that these leaks were selectively targeting Pakistan while ignoring the well documented proliferation activities of the largest proliferator of weapons of mass destruction in our region which possessed not only an ambitious nuclear programme but also chemical and biological programmes.

Such reports may also be designed to provide alibis to the actual suppliers of technologies and financial credits to the Iraqi programme. In this context, it was noteworthy that the recent Iraqi declarations submitted to the Security Council had only been provided in their entirety to the Permanent Members of the Security Council. Many of the actual truths may therefore never come out.

Pakistan is seriously considering raising this matter in the UN Security Council when it takes up its seat beginning from January with a view to calling for an investigation to reveal the sources of such mischievous allegations and their true motivation. To put the record straight, Pakistan may also ask for full access to the Iraqi documents.

Click here to see official IAEA letter.

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Unkept Promises

UNKEPT PROMISES

"The most feasible method of ascertaining the wishes of the people was by fair and impartial plebiscite."

Jawaharlal Nehru (Joint press communiqu챕 of the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan issued in Delhi after their meeting on 20 August 1953)

A Profile of Pakistans PM

Sent By Pakistan High commission

MIR ZAFARULLAH KHAN JAMALI

PRIME MINISTER

ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF PAKISTAN

-- A Profile

 

Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, 59, was sworn in as the Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on 23^{rd November 2002, after the National Assembly had voted him as Leader of the House.}

He becomes the 20th Prime Minister to take office since independence and the first from Balochistan, the province smallest in population, largest in area.

The first words he spoke as leader of the House signalled a complete and welcome break from vindictive politics as compared to the previous civil governments.

He told the National Assembly that he will neither malign nor harass his political opponents by framing false cases against them or opening their dossiers as was the norm in the past. He believed in politics of dialogue and consultation and would endeavour to secure the cooperation of all parties in tackling national issues both in the domestic and external fields.

From fractious politics to consensus politics and from maligning the opposition to showing accommodation for its views is, therefore, going to be the hall-mark of the Jamali-led Government – a sea-change that will usher in national polity at peace with itself and free to concentrate all its resources of thought and action in national development and progress.

Mir Zafarullah Khan pledged to continue the fiscal and foreign policies of the past three years which, he said, had best served the interests of Pakistan. He made it clear that he fully shared the thinking and approach of the President in these matters. For both Pakistan came first and its interest in their eyes was supreme.

Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, son of Haji Shah Nawaz Khan Jamali is no stranger to politics or the working of Government. His uncle, Mir Jafar Khan Jamali, was one of the stalwarts of the Pakistan movement and a very close associate of the Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Together with Nawab Mohammad Khan Jogezai, who was Chief of the Balochistan Shahi Jirga, he played a pivotal role in the decision of the Jirga to join Pakistan.

The present generation is mostly unaware of the critical importance of the Jirga’s decision because a negative vote could have crippled Pakistan at its birth. Both the Frontier Province and Sylhet in Assam, on the eve of independence, decided to join Pakistan through referendum, while Balochistan’s fate, still lacking the status of a province, lay in the hands of tribal elders, who constituted the Shahi Jirga.

The Jamali tribe’s faithfulness to Pakistan, both during the freedom struggle and after, has been exemplary from amongst the Baloch people, whose population is spread over three provinces, namely, Balochistan, Sindh and Punjab. Mir Zafarullah’s credentials as a true Pakistani are therefore impeccable.

He made his debut in politics in 1977, when the people of his area elected him as a member of the Balochistan Provincial Assembly, after which he was taken as the Minister for Food, Information and Parliamentary Affairs in the provincial cabinet. Subsequently, he twice led the Provincial Cabinet as Chief Minister, once as an elected Chief Minister and a second time as a caretaker.

From 1981 to 1984, he worked as Minister of State in the Federal Cabinet for Food, Agriculture and Cooperatives. Thereafter, he was given the portfolio of Federal Minister for Local Government and Rural Development. He served as Minister for Water and Power in 1985-86 and as Railways Minister in 1988.

He was elected member of the National Assembly in 1985 and 1993, and a Senator in 1997. Early this year (2002), he was elected Secretary General of the Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-i-Azam), the office he has recently left.

Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali did his Masters in History from the Punjab University in 1965. He graduated from Government College, Lahore, in 1963, with distinction, earning Roll of Honour. He did his A-Level from Aitchison College, Lahore, the Secondary School O-Level from Lawrence College, Ghora Gali, Murree, and his Junior Cambridge from Grammar School, Quetta. He completed his primary education in his ancestral village in Rojhan Jamali, district Jaffarabad.

He is a multi-linguist, quite at ease with English, Urdu, Balochi (his mother tongue), Sindhi, Punjabi and Seraiki. This enables him to communicate and establish rapport with facility with all language groups in the country.

His love of sports has made no mean contribution to this well-rounded personality. His main passion is hockey though he has also played tennis and football. He was ‘Blue’ holder of Punjab University in hockey in 1961-65 and also captained its team. He represented Pakistan as a hockey player at international level. He was Chef-de-Mission of the Pakistan Olympic contingent to the Los Angeles games in 1984, where the Pakistan Hockey team won the Gold Medal. For almost two decades, he has been the Chief Selector of the Pakistan Hockey team.

From his love of sports, he has imbibed a spirit of sportsmanship which has proved a great asset to him in his successful political career. It has given him tolerance and poise.

He has widely travelled abroad visiting Europe, USA, Australia, Africa, Far East and the Middle East. He represented Pakistan at 1980 and 1991 sessions of the United Nations. In 1981, he led the Pakistan delegation to the FAO Conference at Rome and the same year to the Islamic Agricultural Ministers Conference in Ankara. In March 1984, he headed another Pakistan delegation to the FAO Conference for the Near East region at Aden. In 1982, he led a 21-member delegation of Majlis-e-Shura on a two-week goodwill mission to the United States.

He is a happy family man. His two sons are in the Pakistan Army. The eldest one was elected to the National Assembly in 1997. He has performed Hajj pilgrimage four times.

It is a tribute to his acceptable personality that even the main Opposition, which sticking to its own political agenda, has pledged publicly not to destabilize his Government so that the democratic dispensation takes firm roots. This again represents a sea-change in the political culture of Pakistan because its political history is replete with the recurring phenomenon of the Opposition going all-out from the moment a government assumed office to destabilize it.

Mr. Jamali says he has no illusions about power as a constant factor. But he is determined to serve his stint as Prime Minister with humility and decency. To him decency is not weakness but nobility. He has vowed to give respect to all and hopes he will get the same from them. His watchword is: hasten slowly and things will settle down and fall in their place as desired by the people.

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