The Daily PakistanPolitics--July 14 2009
Jul14-2009--Mian channu blast kills 11..30 other houses damaged by blast...a seminary run by riaz kamboh whose stored explosives blew up...7 children among teh deadJul14-2009--IDP's start returning to malakand, Buner and swat...some fearful of militant retaliations and others saying they will need substantial aid especially those whose homes may have been destroyed...government distributing ATM cards on which IDP's can withdraw 25000 and providing transportJul14-2009--The government and IMF/WB trying to force unnecessary electricity tariff increases which they say will be increased from teh earlier proposed 17.7% t 22% and implemented in three phases...saying that teh government has solved no problem in teh complicated energy generation field...government wants to wait till december to end load shedding and than force teh unpalatable tariff hike...on the one hand they are saying that they want to end subsidies and on teh other zardari announced that base electricity subsidies will be increased to 200 unit users ...that would obviously have tobe paid for by teh high end users too...teh government should study what it is doing ...it has substantial energy domain funds due to sales tax and petroleum levy which should amount to 100-200 billion which can be productively used to serve low end users as well as provide reasonable subsidies...unless government keeps prices under control people will start to agitate against its tax and tariff regimens...Jul14-2009--six militants killed in south waziristanJul14-2009--Afzal sindhu becomes minister of state for law...gilani who seems tobe unable to accept anything that changes has said that Raza Rabbani and sherry rehman are still ministers without portfolio..Jul14-2009--bodies of three taleban hanged from electricity poles found in malakandJul14-2009--Oil tanker gutted in peshawarJul14-2009--Punjab debunks sindh propaganda on NFC allocations saying that it gets just 41%(57% population), sindh 31%(24%), nwfp17%(13%) and balochistan9%(5%)..On teh development side if hospital beds per population is used as a criterion than punjab is the least developed...as for tax collections all end user taxes are paid by the people and punjab pays over 60 % of those..many suggest the example that if a punjabi buys an air ticket even in lahore teh tax he pays is collected in karachi...punjab which has been subjugated in political as well as military dictatorships has always got teh hard end of the stick due to teh propaganda of sindh and other provinces...many suggest that punjab should bravely stand up for itself...apart from disastrous situations in which a sacrifice is normal punjab should not give up its share many say...Jul14-2009--SC says solid evidence needed to jail hafiz saeed and just indian demands are not enoughJul14-2009--the Dollar which is selling at 82.60 may rise further as banks start funding petroleum imports...says teh NewsJul14-2009--The dailytimes says asim hussain to become sindh governor while four ministers including nazar mohammed gondal, qayum jatoi, raja ashraf and waqar khan may get new portfolios and raza rabbani may make a comeback to teh law ministryJul14-2009--sindh transport minister akhter jadoon apprehended when unlicensed arms were detected in teh car that came to pick him up from teh airport...he said that the licenses were available but police refused to let teh PPP minister go
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