Pakistani leaders wallowing in 'moral sins'?

KARACHI, Pakistan - A new, best-selling book details the illicit sex
lives of scores of top politicians here and includes allegations that a
number of girls and women in Pakistan's prostitution underworld have been
fathered by the country's elite political leadership.

These revelations and others have been made in a 380-page book entitled,
"From Parliament to Prostitution Den -- A Chilling Account of Shameful
Scandals of Pakistan's Politicians." The book in the Urdu language has been
a bestseller in Pakistan for over two months.

The book's contents render the Monica Lewinsky scandal tame, minutely
detailing the happy-go-lucky lifestyle and alleged promiscuous sexual
relationships of the entire political leadership, all the way up to
presidents, prime ministers and former army dictators.

One bookseller in Karachi told WorldNetDaily, "A former parliamentarian's
face became red reading a few quotes from this book. He said it was b---s---
and the dirty work of government spooks, and that he would sue the author.
He was angry [that] I had displayed the book. He went away but came back
after some moments and, in a low voice, requested ... to buy a copy."

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Indeed, politicians and political observers alike, contacted by WND, are
calling the book a "spook book," saying the information may have been fed to
the young journalist by intelligence sleuths to discredit Pakistan's
politicians and elected institutions in the world's eyes.

Another bookseller in Karachi, Amirul Kabir, adds, "Just one shop sold
250 copies in one week."

Regarding the illegitimate prostitutes, the book's author, young
journalist Zaheer Ahmed Babur, says, "Their fathers do not accept these
women as their daughters, and perhaps some of the men do not even know if
these women are actually their daughters." He has published an interview
with a celebrity who says that one prostitute from Lahore, capital of
Punjab, is the daughter of a former prime minister.

The book purports to detail the private sex lives of the entire
leadership of the country, including former premiers Nawaz Sharif and
Benazir Bhutto, Sharif's brother and former Punjab chief minister, Shahabaz
Sharif, Bhutto's husband, Asif Ali Zardari, and prime minister-in-waiting
and legendary cricketer Imran Khan. Illicit relationships of former
ministers, presidents, members of parliament, politicians, spiritual leaders
and former ambassadors -- totaling over 100 -- are discussed in the book.

The book cites a former British health minister, Collin Mopnyhan, who was
former premier Benazir Bhutto's classmate at Oxford University, as saying
she was an expert in oral sex. According to the author, when the Daily
Express in London published the information, her government banned the
import of the newspaper into Pakistan.

The exposé claims former premier Nawaz Sharif masterminded an attempt to
kill the editor of a political weekly in Lahore after his paper carried
reports about the ex-premier's love affair with Dilshaad Begum, sister of
Indian film actors Sanjay Khan and Feroz Khan. It accuses the former premier
of having secret relationships with not only several women, but also with a
man.

The book also claims that when Benazir Bhutto was in power, her husband,
Asif Ali Zardai, was supplied with six girls a night at the five-star
Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, alleging that these girls were in fact raped as
they "were brought there on the excuse that they would be partaking in a
fashion show." The author claims Zardari broke all records, not only in
financial corruption, but also in philandering. Zardari's corruption was
first bared in a BBC documentary, "The Princess and the Playboy."

Claiming he has secretly married at least three times, the book says
Shahbaz Sharif is fond of cavorting with prostitutes and call girls.
Although polygamy is allowed in Pakistan, as in all Muslim societies, the
country's Federal Shariat Court, which hands down rulings in sensitive cases
pertaining to Islamic injunctions, had ruled that keeping a marriage secret
was un-Islamic. The same court had also enhanced the punishment for those
who do not get their marriages registered from three to six months in jail.

In discussing prime minister-in-waiting and legendary cricket player
Imran Khan, the book says that though he has been somewhat restrained after
his marriage to Jemima Goldsmith, daughter of British millionaire Sir James
Goldsmith, still his Tehrik-I-Insaaf (Movement for Justice) leaders
privately call him "Paanch Minuti" (five-minute taker), referring to the
handsome leader's capability to hook any woman. One of Imran's former
girlfriends, Sita White, says Imran had fathered her daughter, but the
cricketer-turned-politician has not acknowledged it. Sita has said on record
that when she was pregnant, Imran wanted the child to be a boy and was
highly disturbed when she gave birth to a girl. In most patriarchal
societies, boys are preferred over girls.

Intriguingly, not a single politician has claimed damages against the
publishers, and as such, the book is being deemed authentic by the reading
public. Some analysts, however, say it may be a ploy to discredit the
political leadership of the country.

Says former Labor Minister Abdus Sattar Gabol, "It's all lies, white
lies. I had thought I should go to court and claim damages, but then changed
my mind." The book accuses Gabol of partying and meeting prostitutes at the
home of an international drug smuggler.

The best-selling book has been published by the Tipu Brothers in Lahore,
hometown of former premier Sharif. The publisher's legal adviser, Anwar
Saeed Shiekh, told WND, "No court has so far received any libel suit against
the publishers."

Two articles in Pakistan's constitution, 62 and 63, make it obligatory
that representatives of the people be of "good character," abstain from
"major moral sins" and also that they be "sagacious, righteous, and
non-profligate and honest." Any elected representative can be disqualified
from holding public office if he or she is found to be involved in "moral
turpitude."

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Ahmar Mustikhan is a contributing reporter to WorldNetDaily.