The Daily PakistanPolitics Sep28, 2009

Sep28-2009--as waziristan attempts to recede into teh background a mehsud jirga says all mehsuds are not taleban...avoiding an all out assault by the armed forces is only possible if suicide bombs stop and peace is maintained...

Sep28-2009--death toll in nwfp's suicide blasts goes up to 27...the only wayout seems tobe a complete blockade of the tribal areas especially that of vehicles coming out...

Sep28-2009--iran test fires three missiles as US-israeli threats increase...

Sep28-2009--Indians backed out of ending a diplomatic standoff as shah mahmud qureshi insists that india-pakistan can only reach a peaceful plateau if kashmir and water issues are permanently resolved...the issue of hafiz saeed's prosecution has become sensitive as the indians insist without reason that he be apprehended and in pakistan it will be seen as complete subjugation even though they seem tobe ready to incarcerate him on local charges...with the indians openly showing their terrorist muscle in pakistan the punjab government says that they have have provided some protection to hafiz saeed by putting him under house arrest..indians not too keen on the behind teh scenes negotiator who would not have teh intransigence of indian politicians..indians many say should now be mature enough to reach a comprehensive solution on kashmir...

Sep28-2009--government says 304,335 cash cards distributed amongst returning displaced persons who have withdrawn Rs 7.3 billion

Sep28-2009--US planning drone attacks in quetta region to dislodge supposed taleban leaders

Sep28-2009--The dawn reports that the PPP has prepared a draft constitutional package to validate musharafs controversial actions which will be opposed by other parties...teh SC has already given cover to the elections and presidential oaths..and many see the PPP's violation of its mandate not to encourage further coups by validating previous ones...

Sep28-2009--The much maligned and anti pakistan TIP whose local rep another gilani who apparently is also now being targetted by the malicious government...TIP while saying that corruption under the PPP has climbed to over 400% says that the RPP's are misprocurement and teh government should retender previous bad deals...he says that teh agreement should be for three years and the plant should be installed in 120 days...in one known sheikhupura deal the plant was installed after almost two years...the governments system could also force IPP's to cancel their IPP deals and want RPP deals...If plants can be installed in 120 days than obviously the IPP's were also fraudulent if they took five years to install their plants...

Sep28-2009--In one television news item shahbaz sharif teh subdued chief minister of punjab says anti punjabi politics in sindh and balochistan teh result of misguided political beliefs and are unacceptable...

The Daily PakistanPolitics Sep27-25, 2009

Sep27-2009--tribal terrorists struck in peshawar and bannu with two suicide blasts killing 20...in bannu a police station was targeted and in peshawar teh askari bank...at times it seems as if teh taleban might be settling personal scores rather than just retaliating or fighting the government or police system...many in teh smaller provinces are known to oppose the police system and maybe using such public sentiments to gather support...taleban have lost considerable sympathies over teh last two years...rumours suggest that thirty more blasts are on their way...

Sep27-2009--The Kerry Lugar bill for aid to pakistan passes teh senate...presidential spokesman says the bills conditions if they impede aid flows will be handled at teh appropriate time...given the nature of the pakistan government with its anti people politics and economics there is very little interest in the aid bill publically since foreign aid has traditionally not been of any use to the masses in general...conditions in the troubled areas of nwfp especially donot seem to have improved to an extent where aid could be disbursed effectively...many suggest that teh aid will generally be used to cover resource constraints...

Sep27-2009--The government is again going to attempt a 6% energy price escalation which they say in three steps will raise electricity prices already almost doubled last year by another 20-25%...it will push electricity prices into a dangerous zone especially for agriculture , industry, commerce and high end users...with petroleum prices not having escalated too much the hike in prices is almost like taxation...many think that the government unable to pay for projects like bhasha is increasing prices to cover teh costs...

Sep27-2009--The maligned and anti people power minister has sent a notice for damages to faisal saleh hayat...many say that the corruption allegations are probably correct...rumours have it that Benazir started IPP's at 6 cents and lost power...now six cents are being distributed as rishwat...? After rental power are coming rental trains where the railways is trying to sell its train operations to its booking agent cum consultant...pepco chairman and PPP punjab president said rental power average cost was 11 cents..faisal saleh hayat said it would be 18.17 cents and raja ashraf said it was 15.99 cents..one assumes faisal saleh wanted his 3 cents and raja ashraf is taking around 5 cents.. Pepco says it will be earning 417 billion rupees including a 22% tax...the 52 billion government subsidy is therefore a hoax as it is being paid by high end consumers...high end consumers should go to court and charge teh government with excessive discrimination in charges...

Sep27-2009--bomb blast in gilgit triggers riots...killing two policemen and a person in a bookshop

Sep27-2009--teh sindhi HEC chairman says he will establish more universities in sindh as he inaugurated a medical unit in sindh paid for by teh HEC..what have teh other provinces done to irk him...already inits second year the PPP regime has done nothing for punjab apart from distributing tractors to chief secretaries...barring a few municipal projects in multan

The Daily PakistanPolitics Sep23-24, 2009

Sep24-2009--eight bodies found in hangu, orakzai, and darra adamkhel...

Sep24-2009--An AQ Khan letter is making waves that he wrote to his wife in south africa five years ago that the dutch recovered from his daughter...the letter says that they setup a centrifuge plant at hanzhong, china and teh chinese gave them 50 kg of enriched uranium, 15 tons of UF6 and drawings for a nuclear warhead...on benazirs orders they gave teh iranians drawings, components and a list of suppliers...north korea they say got a few machines and drawings for 3 million dollars pilfered by some army general......one wonders why such information should be written in a letter and obviously pakistan would not even need any enrichment if they had a supply of enriched uranium from china...also shows that teh field is so complicated that one man cannot as they say proliferate on his own...AQ Khan was obviously following government orders...and teh pakistanis probably received chinese training in nuclear matters in teh sixties or seventies..when they were also accused of secretly filming chinese nuclear sites...proliferation only realistically possible by the worlds major powers..

Sep24-2009--In swat seven terrorists killed as army claims capturing of swat suicide bombing mastermind abu faraj

Sep24-2009--Gen Stanley Mchrystal say he requires another 30000 troops to continue teh fight in afghanistan where teh indians, iranians and ISI are complicating matters...

Sep24-2009--pakistan army say they are close to winning teh war against the taleban

Sep24-2009--Obama says that he will continue war against the aimless al qaeda which does not seem tobe even in teh fight at present...

Sep23-2009--As usual the eid moon was visible in teh nwfp and invisible to the rest a feat often managed by teh irreverant pukhtuns...a war of words broke out between the ruet hilal chairman whose job it is to declare the sighting and teh nwfp ministers who despite being secular interfered in religious matters and tried to make teh eid moon a provincial subject too...their lame excuse a love for makah and medinah...where they follow a predetermined calender

Sep23-2009--the indians seem unable to hold direct talks and a back channel is being created for teh indians who just cant get along with pakistan...riaz mohd khan being named as the man the indians might get along with

Sep23-2009--balochistan says that sindh main culprit or hindrance in an NFC solution

Sep23-2009--Obama says no solution in sight for afghanistan...refusing to withdraw he doesnt know what teh strategy is going tobe...more troops or withdrawal...the taleban wont as they say disappear...

Sep23-2009--In swat six militants killed as sher mohd qasab the fazlullah hangman died of wounds in custody...

Sep23-2009--as sectarian clashes broke out in hangu bazaar the district authorities imposed a curfew..

Sep23-2009--senator safdar ali abbasi says that they worked hard in selecting proper candidates in teh punjab...says asif zardari who spares no time for the punjab and generally follows a sindhi line in politics diametrically opposing punjab in matters of development and resources...asif zardari many say has no understanding for the punjab and six months before teh next elections there will be no time to change teh electorates perspective whoever the candidates...last time benazirs assassination worked aginst teh PPP in the punjab with the losing group managing to recover as teh PPP seemed to back out of punjab and nawaz sharifs popularity surged by 10-12 percent

The Daily PakistanPolitics Sep17-21, 2009

Sep21-2009--In another about turn teh ppp regime refuses to allow hafiz saeed to lead eid prayers at the qaddafi ground and puts him under arrest..this after teh indian ambassador said that they would accept just questioning of hafiz saeed in private...the indians have provided little or no evidence and teh pakistanis must at least be allowed to question ajmal kasab on teh issue as the reluctance on teh indian side to allow contact with the sole witness...things cannot work on the isolationist indian strategy..many suggest that teh pakistanis weakness will eventually lead to a kashmiri led liberation movement which would probably be something like the taleban movement inside pakistan...many suggest that since teh indians have little to gain in negotiations they will use every trick to avoid talks on real issues...the bombay attack scenario has provided teh indians with a good avoidance strategy

Sep20-2009--several areas in nwfp announce eid on saturday based on generally erroneous shahadats..provincial government attempts to take control of provincial moon sighting committees...areas like mansehra, chitral, abbottabad and swat refuse to accept provincial controls on eid day promulgation...

Sep20-2009--death toll in fridays suicide blast in kohat rises to 40...

Sep20-2009--In a surprise move a US embassy contractor who trained and provided security guards was raided and numerous shotgun type rifles were seized...The contractor a retired army captain was arrested and released...this came after reports that terrorist type training was being provided near mandra by americans...The company Inter risk and Care and Carrying have run into trouble before...

Sep20-2009--five militants killed in swat as 51 surrender...

Sep20-2009--The deaths of several regional terrorist bosses including baitullah mehsud, nooruddin top,ilyas kashmiri, nazimuddin yahyo and saleh ali saleh are seen as decreasing teh power base of islamic regional terrorists...while not directly linked to alqaeda the US sees them as successes despite their involvement against mostly islamic countries and not linked to al qaeda which was becoming a force against teh west...al qaeda as a real force is almost finished

Sep20-2009--Turkistan Bhittani surrenders...

Sep20-2009--questions are being asked at teh higher rates being given to IPP's and RPP's which are more than two times teh cost of generation by government owned companies...with demand expected to increase teh government should provide funds to government companies to setup power generation plants...government owned power companies can setup power plants not only at a lesser cost but also power production will be cheaper...teh private sector only motivated by teh cheap motivation of higher profits have failed to compete in the real sense...rental power projects are just a mode to increase rates for the private sector which obviously generates higher corruption...

Sep19-2009--In what many say is the PPP regimes offensive nature viz the people the government went in appeal against a LHC decision to reduce sugar prices...many suggest that teh judiciary is much more independent than teh rich men controlled PPP regime and more concerned at teh plight of teh people caused by the mean decisions of teh people antagonist PPP...The PPP has dropped all pretensions of being a peoples party...

Sep19-2009--The LJ Al almi a new LJ faction claims responsibility for a suicide bombing on the kohat -hangu road that killed 33 and blew up over 100 shops and numerous vehicles......it could be a sectarian natured blast although police say that teh bomber probably came from teh orakzai area teh home of the new taleban chief...

Sep19-2009--district nazim hangu killed in a mosque blast..blast in katcha pakka area kills one while funeral attack kills another three

Sep19-2009--13 militants killed in landi kotal area

Sep19-2009--4 militants killed in swat

Sep19-2009--mangal bagh threatens to launch an offensive against the army in bara area

Sep19-2009--banks to buy another 85 billion in power sector TFC's showing a very low demand for money..while teh economic situation has supposedly improved with over $14 billion in reserves...increasing remmittances..government still complains of revenue shortfalls despite 2.25 trillion in expected revenues...however PTCL landlines have fallen to around 3 million from over four million and a liberal NFC expected to further strain revenue sharing...high cost of electricity and food prices straining the limits of public tolerance...despite hoping /asking for loans and grants Zardari publically asks for trade which cannot help much even if it doubles...

Sep18-2009--BHC says the countries security system must cooperate in turbat killings of baloch leaders

Sep18-2009--concerns raised about american security contractor over lethal weapons licenses and type of training being given to security recruits...

Sep18-2009--cases initiated against hafiz saeed after speeches in faisalabad urging the fight against infidels...

Sep18-2009--ten militants killed in swat

Sep18-2009--nato oil tanker torched in khuzdar

Sep18-2009--The communist party files a case in teh supreme court to nationalize the countries 80 sugar mills which are guilty of cartelization and raising teh sugar price despite the feeble attempts by teh PPP regime...

Sep17-2009--sher mohammed qasab said tobe a taleban executioner arrested in swat...involved in beheading security forces personnel and setting fire to schools..eight tunnels also discovered

Sep17-2009--eight militants killed in helicopter operations in paharpur area of lakki marwat

Sep17-2009--Farhatullah Baber denies any negotiations on a deal for musharafs exit...PPP was known to have offered musharaf a safe exit strategy...PMLn seeks a parliamentary debate on teh issue as the PPP follows a policy of doing nothing...

Sep17-2009--US army has a confused attitude towards pakistans defence...it has little todo with afghanistans internal situation which has always been troublesome..pakistans main defence problem has always been india and that has not changed..fighting internal terrorists has emerged as a challenge over teh last decade but that too is nothing new as teh pakistan army has been involved in similar operations in various provinces...If teh US had provided pakistan with strategic defence material to emerge as a regional tough boss than many problems would have been solved...however a confused policy in afghanistan and lack of complete cooperation with pakistan still seem tobe teh issues..if teh US withdraws from afghanistan its internals might change but it would not effect pakistan to any great extent and might even reduce its internal problems

Sep17-2009--Gilani mixes up musharafs army coup with political, army and judicial conspirators...article 6 would solve teh issue if the PPP had the guts to bring musharaf to trial for all his various offences...

Sep17-2009--Even milk is cheaper than pakistan in europe...rice can be bought for Rs17 per kilo in india...governments statements about prices in teh region and the world are meant to subjugate teh people...in europe food prices are controlled thru government interventions...teh governments price hike policies are just meant to enrich supporters and create teh same rich poor divide of previous times...teh PPP regime has literally killed all peopel interest inits governance by supporting special interest groups

Sep17-2009--Asif zardari still seems confused about punjab politics... while selection procedures were probably what defeated earlier PPP leaderships...Zardari thinks that his selection process will automatically generate support in teh next elections which seems doubtful given his financial and development policies...especially viz teh punjab..

Sep17-2009--american embassy security contractor arrested in islamabad for links with anti state elements

Sep17-2009--terrorism charges dropped against lal masjid cleric in three cases

The Daily PakistanPolitics Sept 15-16, 2009

September 16-2009--six taleban camps destroyed in hangu

September 16-2009--three militants killed in swat

September 16-2009--punjab many say is being turned into a police state with more policemen than people...as police shoot dead three in lahore for kidnapping and murder

September 16-2009--pakistan has no worries about any problems if the US is defeated in afghanistan...pakistan is used to a hostile afghanistan and US military analysis not correct...

September 16-2009--five militants killed in bajaur

September 16-2009--Kaira becomes gilgit- baltistan governor...he should also study a similar system for azad kashmir and fata...

September 16-2009--a blasphemy accused dies in jail

September 16-2009--Indias bizzarre behaviour towards pakistan was further highlighted as musharaf said he had never said in an indian interview that US aid was utilized for strengthening defence against india...During musharafs tenure teh US denied most military aid apart from some F-16 spare parts and guns for navy ships...pakistan has to look to other countries for advanced weapons...most of pakistans weapon systems are india specific and will be used against them whenever needed...for teh fight against terrorism US has supplied some transport helicopters and night vision devices...pakistan has for the last two decades been seeking replacement F-16s and only recently have some old F-16's been supplied...

September 16-2009--government again doles out money to teh agriculture sector which seems quite inefficient for not being able to function despite all its products being priced according to the international market...and literally everything being subsidized from electricity,water, loans, labour, tractors, fertilizer...government ends export taxes on wheat and doles out a whopping 750 rupee per bag of fertilizer...

September 16-2009--PPP starts more tax free loans of 3 lakhs per family(731 families per month).if family has no government employee,not travelled abroad and does not have a passport...under teh BISP...repayable in 12-15 years...conditions seem tobe a bit strange and bizzarre...according to reports PPP workers have mostly benefited from teh BISP's 1000 rupee per month scheme for teh poor...

September 16-2009--five militants killed in bajaur

September 15-2009--After insinuations that democracy cannot be successful unless the peoples aspirations are protected and teh constitution implemented Asif Zardari lamely suggested that the PPP had given musharaf safe passage and that he was effectively in exile and that meant he can play golf but not politics...as far as the people are concerned nobody apparently gave any guarantees for their safe living and economic well being......as musharaf supposedly asked for allowances and suggested that he might be back by november things heated up...safe passage meant his exit from government and teh army house which teh frightened army allowed him to use for over six months...but as musharaf could not keep his mouth shut calls for his trial under article six were raised...under article six only the coup plotter can be effectively charged who illegally occupied government and suppressed teh constitution and teh peopel...safe passage obviously does not mean a guarantee of not being sent to jail by teh courts...it just meant that the politicos would not bring crowds on to the street when he left government...the ten corp surrounded him until he went into exile...where he supposedly still has ex commando guards...

September 15-2009--In karachi indisciplined people hungry for free food stampeded killing 20...a trader doling out free grains arrested...governments policy of literally snatching the poor mans food from his hands has caused many problems for the poor...

September 15-2009--drone attack kills five in waziristan

September 15-2009--eight militants killed and one soldier in bara operations...

September 15-2009--three arrested from rojhan for firing on the religious affairs minister

September 15-2009--most lawyers appointed LHC judges come from teh lawyers movement which shows that no specific merit or competence is involved...

September 15-2009--bomb blast in mansehra kills one policeman

September 15-2009--149 militants surrender in swat

September 15-2009--zardari plans a truth and reconciliation commission tobe headed by asma jehangir...pakistanis have a hard time differentiating what is teh truth as everybody never notices their own flaws...

The Daily PakistanPolitics--Sep12-14, 2009

Sep14-2009--over 700 khasadars in khyber fired after they refused to report for duty over threats from the mangal bagh LI...

Sep14-2009--the Interior minister getting braver says troops surrounding mullah fazlullah and says they will deal with mangal bagh just like baitullah

Sep14-2009--In bara three security men killed as vehicle hits roadside bomb

Sep14-2009--In the malakand area police blowup a potential suicide car bomb...

Sep14-2009--Indians continue their negative attitudes towards pakistan as they protest pakistans confusing stand on gilgit baltistan...pakistan has de facto occupied gilgit baltistan but its status is outside teh purview of its national assembly creating a situation of an illegal but de facto province...a similar situation in azad kashmir is treated differently by giving it independence...Shah mahmood qureshi has a generally better viewpoint on most issues than the pathetic primeminister whose ministers do nothing but defend price hikes...although one would doubt that the lakhra coal has not been developed due to resources...one however does not agree that subsidized tractors for teh rich agriculturists is a good policy given governments refusal of subsidies in other fields...

Sep14-2009--The controversy over bringing the coup plotter musharaf to court on constitutional charges of treason continues as teh controversial saudis trying to force nawaz sharif off track...musharaf on teh other hand wants corp commanders and judges also tobe brought to trial and hopes that the judiciary too will back off...many see teh feeble pathetic PPP regime as having lost its basic mandate by implementing a dangerous foreign and financial policy and becoming literally establishment controlled...

Sep14-2009--four killed in dera bugti blast

Sep14-2009--soldier and two militants killed in swat

Sep14-2009--The governments policy of price hikes and creating shortages and than allowing sale of cheaper commodities at a few venues has killed at least two people who have to stand in ques say newspaper reports...teh governments mean and nasty policies are meant to enrich teh agricultural producers and create a despondency and sense of helplessness, urgency,deprivation and hardship amongst people especially in urban centers...the government which is the creater of problems thru bad policies than benefits as people are unable to protest and attack its policies due to their burdened and difficult life...

Sep13-2009--governments competition commission of pakistan raids sugar mills association office...sugar mills have been acting as a cartel creating problems for the people...

Sep13-2009--Indians fire into pakistan near wagah over alleged rocket fire from pakistani side...

Sep13-2009--suicide blast near hangu police station

Sep13-2009--350 khasadars dismissed for refusing to perform their duties after threats from a mangal bagh FM station...helicopter gunships killed 22 militants in attacks on LI positions in the tirah valley

Sep13-2009--In what is being described as teh distribution of corruption cents teh punjab PPP also came out for higher prices of electricity by supporting an astronomically high 16 cents per unit for an IPL...one wonders what teh PPP is up to...earlier raja ashraf said that teh prices being negotiated were nearer 13 cents while faisal saleh hayat said that they were giving upto 18.17 cents...many suggest that PPP office bearers have also being assured of a few cents in rishwat...?many suggest that teh US team also supposedly suggested that average prices of electricity be further raised to above those in the USA while the dumb pakistani ministers sat in appreciative silence...

Sep12-2009--It seems that the taleban think their spokesmen can be dispensed with as swats top taleban spokesman muslim khan and four commanders are arrested...other reports suggest that muslim khan formerly of teh PSF has been ordered out by the PPP...?still other reports suggest that he has been lured out for negotiations or been part of a negotiating team...some taleban have turned against their bosses due to the high death toll while others suggest an end to a combined fight after the losses at the top of the taleban heirarchy...

Sep12-2009--Dawn reports suggest that rehman malik might visit kabul to meet brahmdagh bugti while teh army has asked the US to urge kabul to hand over teh subversive baloch

Sep12-2009--In sambrial a church set on fire after christians purportedly desecrated teh quran the muslims holy book...In gojra too the initial incident that caused the problem was the tearing up of an islamic textbook and throwing teh paper pieces around...

Sep12-2009--wagah reportedly tense as explosions reported from indian village

Sep12-2009--CJ BHC issues notices to musharaf to appear in the FIR registration case of akber bugtis death

Sep12-2009--every government since zulfikar ali bhutto has issued a textile and education policy thinking they were doing it for the first time...zulfikar ali bhutto had to wear the kamiz shalwars himself to popularize local cloth at that time considered very inferior to japanese products

Sep12-2009--two militants killed in swat

Sep12-2009--security forces destroy teh houses of sixty militants in the doog darra area of dir

Sep12-2009--In kohat a power pylon is blownup

Sep12-2009--rehman malik says that while teh government is on teh defensive against continuous indian propaganda over the bombay incidents they are ready not only to debate teh issue but send in a team to investigate...after teh investigations on ajmal kasab the rest of those involved have not been investigated...india has been insisting that pakistan apprehend hafiz saeed who they say supposedly addressed meetings at LT training camps for teh bombay invaders...

Sep12-2009--In khyber the political agent threatens to fire khasadars who donot report for duty after militant threats

Sep12-2009--The dawn reports that the cement cartel has failed as cement prices have fallen by around a 105 after action by the CCP which fined teh cement producers over Rs6 billion...however since cement production is much higher than requirements falling demand has hurt teh market which might be losing export contracts as well which were mostly to india...The price hike champion and industrial agent yusuf raza than tried to have the CCP chairman fired...

The Daily PakistanPolitics Sep 9-11, 2009

Sep11-2009--ISI chief finds no place else to break his fast but the indian embassy...

Sep11-2009--Asif Zardari who is becoming controversial as he usually only sees one side of a picture...forgetting that teh baloch continue to kill innocents he wants an amnesty for a few without anything in return...pakistan needs a quid pro quo of undying loyalty and patriotism in return otherwise a few years down teh line another group will go on a killing spree..will u give them autonomy too...autonomy will solve nothing... neither more federal resources unless the money is spent for the betterment of teh people...when teh baloch can neither afford electricity or food than how can their situation improve..giving thousands of acres of agricultural land to benefit foreigners will not help...distribute the land amongst balochis and tell them to work it for their own benefits.....teh consequences of such policies will not result in any permanent peace...money to provincial governments that do nothing for the peopel and supposed autonomy for politicians to enforce a tribal dictatorship on unhappy balochis can hardly be a formula for success...teh same sort of autonomy was given to Fata with terrible consequences...The limitation of being pakistani have tobe enforced...what control the federal govenment has over a province barring sending in the army is unclear...

Sep11-2009--two aparently oil trains trains collide near kotri...

Sep11-2009--In what seems tobe a covert campaign to build up a pariah coup plotter the dawn prints a number of articles trying to create an unholy picture of the most crooked general that teh pakistan army has ever produced...living it up in england on apparent saudi, US and pakistani government contributions....teh general called a good son of india by vajpayee is trying to change his image of an american indian agent who sold pakistan out of fright on just one phone call...pakistan has been living the terrible consequences ever since...

Sep11-2009--the punjab finance minister says that punjab only getting 47% resources versus a 57% population...since most resources are population based punjab forcing division on that stance...other provinces have already carved out seperate resource allocation demands with sindh said tobe teh prime looter...nwfp wants huge hydel royalties ...balochistan vying for gas surcharges...and sindh saying teh collection office is in sindh...all the smaller provinces have built spurious cases of how their resources have been lost/ looted/denied while punjab has been unable to build up any case being described by everyone as teh bully but who is being suppressed or treated as an under dog lackey who can be pushed around by the PPP regime

Sep11-2009--student nurses in layyah being victimized for protesting maltreatment as workers at teh unused carriage factory protest late delivery of salaries...GOP buys carriages from china instead

Sep11-2009--There is apparently no shortage of sugar giving many teh impression that the PPP regime is deliberately creating a crisis to help out its rich sugar mill sponsors like teh mirzas and forcing the peopel to buy a commodity at a needlessly higher price...most sugar mill owners are politicians on all sides of teh political spectrum

Sep11-2009--with iraq increasingly looking like a peaceful state many argue that the US has succeeded in destabilizing a relatively peaceful pakistan and making it more reliant on its need for aid and weapons...pakistan however is only trying to get second hand equipment due to a strong indian lobby frightened of even pakistani torpedoes and second hand humvees from iraq which the technologically backward or poor pakistanis consider highly sophisticated...

Sep11-2009--22 militants killed in swat in continuing cleansing operations

Sep11-2009--militants attack police post in lower dir..

Sep10-2009--some stolen Nato goods recovered in quetta...

Sep10-2009--faisal saleh also wants rental power corruption committee...says most PPP ministers corrupt and yusuf gilani family recently reached a deal with teh NAB...!says zardari spent 94 of 365 days abroad...

Sep10-2009--15 militants killed in swat

Sep10-2009--government plans to raise spending on education to 7% of GDP..will that bring about a commitment or just bridge a resource gap...throwing money at anything is never a solution..the previous government threw 50 billion at PHd education without any improvement or results

Sep9-2009--In what seemed a show full of inconsistent visuals and economic and constitutional sidetracking yusuf raza gilani visited a supposed NCHD(military era organization which spent funds but provided no results) adult literacy center in peshawar with a few burqa clad women sitting on carpets and more officials than could be counted with literally billions being bandied about apparently for fun...7 billion for NHCD...nafeesa shah will be teh next billionaire in sindh...?after allocating 24 billion for the FC and police two extremely different organizations... he doled out 6 billion of that...out of 50 billion for malakand only 2 billion for development after consultations...on teh controversial pukhtunwa he said that the ANP a party with not too great a popular base has a supposed mandate on teh issue and thus nobody else has any rights on the constitutional issue...he said anyway teh issue was with a constitutional committee and the 110 billion tarbela royalty issue was with teh NFC ...meaning that nothing is yusuf's responsibility...many see the PPP allies tightening teh noose whether it be teh ANP, JUI or MQM...many are setting an April 2010 target date for an anti PPP revolt...? whether it be a coup or otherwise...

Sep9-2009--The kalash who apparently came from the kalash mountains in tibet have lost a greek museum curator apparently kidnapped with a police guard killed...

Sep9-2009--The baloch nationalists sceptical of cantonments decision...both sides are guilty of atrocities with the baloch targetting other ethnic individuals/economic targets and teh FC while teh federal government went after key ringleaders such as akber bugti...asif zardari now wants an amnesty for one of teh supposed key ringleaders brahmdagh bugti

Sep9-2009--while there has been no sugar shortage teh TCP says that the minister is responsible for stopping imports...imports would not have been effective anyway as teh mills were guillotining teh market

Sep9-2009--eight nato oil tankers set on fire near quetta

Sep9-2009--drone attack leaves ten dead in north waziristan

Sep9-2009--In Bara operation 24 killed by security forces

Sep9-2009--raja pervaiz ashraf the embattled rental power minister says a NA committee should investigate allegations of corruption against him which include a farmhouse in islamabad and a house in england...according to PPP's supposed new NAB rules a committee of the house and senate has to study a referral of corruption allegations..

Sep9-2009--Sibi sessions court says it has no jurisdiction in matters relating to the bugti killing as it is not in its jurisdiction...Jamil bugti to challenge in BHC

Sep9-2009--Engro moves into thar power generation after fertilizers, milk and icecream...?

Sep9-2009--former malakand commissioner mohd jawed apparently in ISI custody over allegations he sided with the taleban worsening the situation

Sep9-2009--The controversial shahid orakzai succeeds in getting a SC hearing on Nawaz sharif involvement in teh killing of his brother in kohat for an election payment for votes scam in Fata..

Sep9-2009--nine militants killed in orakzai in helicopter bombings..

The Daily PakistanPolitics Sep 9-11, 2009

Sep11-2009--ISI chief finds no place else to break his fast but the indian embassy...

Sep11-2009--Asif Zardari who is becoming controversial as he usually only sees one side of a picture...forgetting that teh baloch continue to kill innocents he wants an amnesty for a few without anything in return...pakistan needs a quid pro quo of undying loyalty and patriotism in return otherwise a few years down teh line another group will go on a killing spree..will u give them autonomy too...autonomy will solve nothing... neither more federal resources unless the money is spent for the betterment of teh people...when teh baloch can neither afford electricity or food than how can their situation improve..giving thousands of acres of agricultural land to benefit foreigners will not help...distribute the land amongst balochis and tell them to work it for their own benefits.....teh consequences of such policies will not result in any permanent peace...money to provincial governments that do nothing for the peopel and supposed autonomy for politicians to enforce a tribal dictatorship on unhappy balochis can hardly be a formula for success...teh same sort of autonomy was given to Fata with terrible consequences...The limitation of being pakistani have tobe enforced...what control the federal govenment has over a province barring sending in the army is unclear...

Sep11-2009--two aparently oil trains trains collide near kotri...

Sep11-2009--In what seems tobe a covert campaign to build up a pariah coup plotter the dawn prints a number of articles trying to create an unholy picture of the most crooked general that teh pakistan army has ever produced...living it up in england on apparent saudi, US and pakistani government contributions....teh general called a good son of india by vajpayee is trying to change his image of an american indian agent who sold pakistan out of fright on just one phone call...pakistan has been living the terrible consequences ever since...

Sep11-2009--the punjab finance minister says that punjab only getting 47% resources versus a 57% population...since most resources are population based punjab forcing division on that stance...other provinces have already carved out seperate resource allocation demands with sindh said tobe teh prime looter...nwfp wants huge hydel royalties ...balochistan vying for gas surcharges...and sindh saying teh collection office is in sindh...all the smaller provinces have built spurious cases of how their resources have been lost/ looted/denied while punjab has been unable to build up any case being described by everyone as teh bully but who is being suppressed or treated as an under dog lackey who can be pushed around by the PPP regime

Sep11-2009--student nurses in layyah being victimized for protesting maltreatment as workers at teh unused carriage factory protest late delivery of salaries...GOP buys carriages from china instead

Sep11-2009--There is apparently no shortage of sugar giving many teh impression that the PPP regime is deliberately creating a crisis to help out its rich sugar mill sponsors like teh mirzas and forcing the peopel to buy a commodity at a needlessly higher price...most sugar mill owners are politicians on all sides of teh political spectrum

Sep11-2009--with iraq increasingly looking like a peaceful state many argue that the US has succeeded in destabilizing a relatively peaceful pakistan and making it more reliant on its need for aid and weapons...pakistan however is only trying to get second hand equipment due to a strong indian lobby frightened of even pakistani torpedoes and second hand humvees from iraq which the technologically backward or poor pakistanis consider highly sophisticated...

Sep11-2009--22 militants killed in swat in continuing cleansing operations

Sep11-2009--militants attack police post in lower dir..

The Daily PakistanPolitics Sep 8-4, 2009

Sep8-2009--The pakistan army has backed out of creating cantonments in kohlu and dera bugti which are at best residential colonies for faujis in any area...sindhis and baloch are known to oppose pakistan army cantonments which number 54 in teh rest of teh country...creating different rules for different areas is at best a policy of divide and rule...teh government of teh PPP which previously was known for its committment to teh peopel has this time around joined in with imperialist thinking industrialists and agricultural landlords to crush teh peoples will thru price hikes, tax hikes and seperate thinking for seperate areas...teh policies are apparent in the cruel price hikes, different polices for karachi and the northwest and the facile reforms in teh fata and the northern areas...while they pamper one they kill another...the bugti son jamil bugti had come out strongly against cantonments although what difference that will make is unclear...the pakistan army has shown itself capable enough to work in remote areas with small logistic bases..a thinking which has developed since east pakistan and with small to sometimes lethal trouble making rabble rousers..there seems no clear cut policy on balochistan with even teh PPP chief minister advocating a semi independent state...baloch liberationists have a policy of armed conflict in which they attack other pakistani ethnic groups and create a sense of anarchy but teh situation in teh region leaves them no support and they have little public backing...teh government as has been pakistans policy follows a generalized theme of allowing such movements to play themselves out...with teh government refusing tobe pushed to extreme solutions and the liberationists continuing to create tensions

Sep8-2009--dawn reports suggest that teh PMLn preparing for elections...with the PPP having sold out on all issues whether political or otherwise teh PMLn demanded that one extreme only not be listened to on renaming nwfp...nwfp which has a diverse language base with at least two main parties supporting the name pukhtunwa while others like the PMLn with a base in hazara suggesting a neutral name..The ANP suggests a referendum on a third time primeministership also which could be a good idea as the PPP which has little decisive powers would be able to defer another issue rather than talk it out ..The PMLn is generally only talking on political issues generally avoiding people intensive issues such as price hikes even though they are now considered more populist than the PPP

Sep8-2009--drone attack kills five in mir ali

Sep8-2009--The government and teh courts have failed to resolve teh sugar crisis as teh rich sugar mill owners seem to have more power than teh feeble natured governments...

Sep8-2009--hazaraite husband of ppp leader in balochistan shot dead by motorcyclists

Sep8-2009--The communist party of pakistan issues a comprehensive list of 481 people who should be tried under article six...many think that a few prominent people should be tried to show future politicians how to move on such a serious issue...

Sep8-2009--Balochistan wants its NFC share doubled by a determination ration of 70(population)--10(size)--15(backwardness) and 5(revenue generation)...the increase in revenues should in general be able to take care of that

Sep8-2009--Faisal Saleh Hayat urges the SC to take note of the minister for powers corruption who is apparently accused of buying a flat in london for Rs600 million...

Sep8-2009--10 militants killed in bara area

Sep8-2009--In south waziristan a roadside bomb blows up a military vehicle killing five soldiers

Sep8-2009--Yusuf Raza Gilani hell bent on raising taxes says teh IMF...already having crushed teh people thru unnecessary shortages, price hikes and tax hikes the government plans more misery for the poverty stricken people...

Sep8-2009--In what many see as the type of governance in pakistan ijaz butt who has literally brought pakistan to its cricketing death barring teh 20-20 triumph has removed all his appointees at teh senior level in the PCB leaving the innocuous wasim bari in almost total charge...they however say that Ijaz Butt unlike other rich men in government does not use any of teh huge expenses/perks allowed to the PCB chief...cheaper and honest than most corrupt individuals around but inefficient and obviously unable to handle even the management of cricket matches...

The Daily Pakistan Politics--Sep3-4, 2009

Sep03-2009--In what some say is saudi interference...while others say are saudi attempts to keep teh peace more in the terrorism related field than any other...when musharaf left after being theoretically kicked out it was said that he could participate in politics after two years but now that seems impossible and he wants to avoid teh judicial attacks on his military rule which could suppress him for years if not the rest of his life...others say that the recent terror attacks in pakistan, saudia and afghanistan might have caused teh saudis to realize that musharaf might be behind them..the new taleban chief has started another round of terror attacks and many suggest that musharaf might still be in control of the network in india...many suggest that teh saudis who study pakistans governance may not like teh PPP style of literally creating problems for teh people day in and day out and might be looking for a knight in shining armour as a stop gap measure if they can foment a coup...?others suggest that teh saudis also might have a soft corner for teh taleban who have been clobbered by the PPP regime...

Sep03-2009--LHC suspends its order lifting curbs on AQ Khan as teh government is swayed again by meaningless american concerns..

Sep03-2009--Nawaz Sharif backs out of confrontation again and suggests that the PPP scrap teh 17th amendment as a first step...he says if teh saudis have any concerns about musharaf he will hear about them when he goes for umrah otherwise advising against saudi interference..

Sep03-2009--In islamabad two motorcycle terrorists struck by firing at the religious ministers car killing his driver and injuring two others as he left office...religious minister quite brave as he has no security and even teh office is in an open place...the office is quite near the ISI office and a kalashnikov was recovered from outside teh ISI office...as well as two from the place of teh incident

Sep03-2009--16 militants killed in Bara operation

Sep03-2009--Yasin malik says that gilgit and baltistan were part of azad kashmir under teh constitution

Sep03-2009--Nawaz Sharif says that problems cannot be solved by changing governments...in teh present instance that seems true as the PPP is unable to solve any issue..many suggest that the PMLn should at least raise and discuss with teh government peoples concerns since constitutional changes seem difficult for teh docile dual natured PPP...

Sep03-2009--two militants killed in swat...

Sep03-2009--the JI wants talkative former intelligence officers apprehended...especially those that were behind teh jinnahpur mqm consiracy...(the mqm many say was formed by the interior ministry in zia's times (as was the afghan taleban) to subdue the PPP which it did adequately until benazir reconciled with an ill altaf...)they also say that teh US bought 18 acres of land in teh diplomatic enclave for just one billion for a marine house..pakistan they say should avoid american contract security firms like Blackwater...

Sep03-2009--PPP minister in sindh accused of selling jobs while teh primeminister many say wants 15 million from his wife to have her loans written off...

The Daily PakistanPolitics--Sept2-1, 2009

Sept2-2009--ANP frightens PPP into agreeing to pay teh incredulous amount of Rs100 billion as tarbela royalty dues...royalty which can at best be 1-2% of profits can hardly amount to that much and it seems that the pressurized PPP regime is falling into nwfp's blackmail attempts...!!

Sept2-2009--PMLn says corruption under PPP last year rose by 400%

Sept2-2009--military launches operation in the troubled Bara region killing 40 in helicopter raids as a hundred lay down their arms in mingora

Sept2-2009--As pressure grows on teh PPP regime to put musharaf on trial for various offences musharaf abruptly flew to saudia where he could probably have more protection...teh saudis known to give protection to toppled muslim rulers with serious character flaws......teh supporters of musharaf urged him to come back and stand trial but one is certain that musharaf does not have that sort of character...he would have to rely on his friends in teh army to protect his hide...

Sept1-2009--The government again raises petroleum prices...petrol at Rs65.26 and diesel at Rs.66

Sept1-2009--Nawaz Sharif again tries to get teh government some support from their own lobbies who have been extremely disappointed with gilani and zardari...he gives the government a 48 hour ultimatum to stop spreading propaganda...teh culprit may well be yusuf raza gilani who many see as a crooked politician now after teh revelation that ADB loans to his wife in 1984 have not been returned...alongwith raja ashraf many see their hand in teh till not withstanding the open corruption of giving away 12.5% OGDC shares without payment...The PPP and mqm are using former spooks to suggest that nawaz sharif got millions in payments in the runup to the IJI elections and for getting teh PPP regime toppled in 1992...dont they think that the over 6 billion in loans to the sharifs was enough or are they suggesting a few millions more to shut them up...

Sept1-2009--A LHC judge summons the suspicious looking duo of rehman malik and baber awan to explain their activities surrounding teh Benazir assassination...

Sept1-2009--The PPP's traitor governor who claims to come from teh mqm invites teh mqm to the punjab alongwith the PMLn who also offered teh frightened altaf hussein a bullet proof car...teh mqm has already tried and failed in punjab as it has no punjabi leadership and wants teh punjab to be cowardly sheep as they try to divide the country further...Apparently teh mqm asked the PPP's yusuf raza gilani for an area in punjab where they could tryout their anarchic karachi politics

Sept1-2009--PMLN to also move into AJK politics

Sept1-2009--forty five militants killed in swat operations

The Daily PakistanPolitics Aug 31-30, 2009

Aug31-2009--FarahNaz Isphahani denies that teh presidency is involved in reports maligning teh PMLn...Urges PMln to come forward with corruption reports on the PPP...one of them many say is that after doling out 12.5% shares of OGDC without charge Yusuf Raza Gilani reportedly sent a mesage to OGDC workers ..."ke mera hissa pohanch jana chahiye" others say that naveed qamar also delivered a similar message...others suggest that teh PPP is behind charges of nawaz sharifs ordering military to act against teh mqm in karachi in 1992 and taking funds from teh military-ISI during the ISI orchestrated IJI in 1990 ...?many suggest that the moves are an attempt to keep the unstable mqm from teaming up with the PMLn to topple the PPP regime which is immensely unpopular..

Aug31-2009--pakistan accused of modifying old anti ship harpoon missiles and PC3 Orions...by the NYT

Aug31-2009--anti terrorist DSP kiled in karak

Aug31-2009--As the vehicle stoppage at chaman continued 15 vehicles caught fire due to a blast in an oil tanker...

Aug31-2009--suicide bomber kills 16 police cadets in mingora police training center

Aug30-2009--In another of its dubious moves the PPP literally turned the Northern Areas into an illegitimate province and renamed it as Gilgit-baltistan even appointing a governor and giving it a chief minister...whether teh government can take such measures without teh approval of parliament is doubtful and teh government seems tobe occupying territory without it being a part of pakistan but still a sort of azad subordinate province...this is teh same sort of move in which teh government doled out billions worth of shares to teh workers of OGDC who apparently dont even do any work contracting out most of the important work to foreign companies...for this government illegitimacy and illegality are teh watchwords...many suggest that the government does not want to lose this area to the indians which also suggests some sort of dubious arrangement on kashmir with the indians...like musharaf... zardari also moving towards a sellout on kashmir many say kicking democratic institutions for a six on teh way...

Aug30-2009--teh controversial sindh judge Afzal Soomru who has travelled all over teh pakistan judiciary now being forced to appear before teh SJC on two references for improper judicial practices

Aug30-2009--supply trucks to afghanistan stopped at chaman as afghan truckers travelling to pakistan generally carrying fruit refuse to unload their trucks for inspection...

Aug30-2009--manmohan proving that his nature is teh same as other indians as he refuses to even open any negotiations

Aug30-2009--The government again attempting to prepare grounds for further price hikes inits continuing anti people agenda...petroleum price hike on teh cards...government unable to achieve economic stability...creation of shortages of essential products ...price hikes by unstable regime to cover its tracks..one price hike follows another...that is their childish economic policy...

Aug30-2009--Qadeer Khan objects to government provision of security...says he wants to travel to dubai whenever he feels like it ...says musharaf will be brought to justice by all the people that he has trampled upon...

Aug30-2009--helicopter gunships destroy training camp on island in swat river near charbagh as 18 militants are killed

Aug30-2009--seven more bodies found in swat...

Aug30-2009--Shabaz Sharif visits muzaffargarh and sacks DCO for poor ramazan bazaar arrangements...beaurocats must be fired for them to become efficient...

Aug30-2009--police arrest four westerners and a afghan in islamabad carrying assault weapons...

Aug30-2009--Dubai authorities seize a korean ship carrying weapons like grenade launchers that usually end up in teh hands of terrorists like those in pakistan...this is the first seizure of a korean ship under Un sanctions...!