The Daily PakistanPolitics-June 20, 2009

Jun20-2009--In a new development the french say that politicians from interior sindh might have initiated teh attack on the french engineers bus in karachi when they were not paid kickbacks...when teh topic was broached many say teh french may have retaliated by having benazir assassinated and a discussion  between sarkozi and zardari on the matter  resulted in a payment of $200 million for the IDP's for silence on teh matter...?This is a totally new angle and zardari is known to have said that even teh world bank paid kickbacks...the french say that they stopped kickbacks in 1995 while teh politicians continued to insist on payments...the pakistani rightwing terrorists are known to attack targets for payments when there interests are also served...

Jun20-2009--The army started its assault on mehsud territory by blowing up several seminaries, training centers and militant hideouts...heavy exchange of fire was taking place as the military trys to seize control of the wana jandollah road...military blocking all exits and its supporting militias led by zainuddin and bhittani apparently funded to raise lashkaras in tank and jandola...taleban left tank after four baitullah supporters were shot dead...

Jun20-2009--judge and his aide shot dead in quetta...bomb blast in dera murad jamali...grenade attack in hazarganji...roadside bomb attempt on FC convoy which escapes

Jun20-2009--claims and counter claims against KESC on power outages...they say Pepco failed to provide power due to outages onits system three times in teh night while Pepco says at one time they were supplying all the KESC. load...KESC says they used an old 132 KV line to connect to NTDC and start their power stations...it seems the karachi power stations lack DC starting power systems...Nepra questions lack of /functioning of low frequency relays and KESC not having a modern computer software controlled SCADA(supervisory control and data acquisition) monitoring system...many suggest that wapda's national power control system which used to have an office at hyderabad be allowed to control teh KESC system...Nepra says KESC provides spurious data and they could be fined...

Jun20-2009--government backs down on controlling tax evasion amongst exporters and bussinessmen and agrees to many amendments in teh budget however the peoples representatives seem unable to get them to provide any relief to teh people...

Jun20-2009--31 militants killed in baajur and upper dir clashes

Jun20-2009--wheat flour selling at Rs60 per kilo in skardu

Jun20-2009--peshawar airport opens after two days

Jun20-2009--france which earlier prohibited muslim schoolgirls from wearing a head scarf now worrying about muslim women turning to teh burqa whose use has increased there...

Jun20-2009--cleanup of militants in buner, mohmand and swat continues as power circuit from chakdara to buner being rehabilated