The Daily PakistanPolitics-July 18, 2009

Jul18-2009--Nawaz Sharif acquitted in plane hijacking case by the SC...musharaf and his henchmen wanted a death sentence which if carried out would have made musharaf a hero in sindh and a villain in punjab...teh courts at that time had refused a death sentence and teh machiavellian nature of musharaf allowed nawaz sharif to leave teh country despite a sentence of life imprisonment...many had said at that time that musharaf had paid for nawaz sharif giving him an out of turn army chiefship...judges who seem to have woken up after a decade now say that there was no hijacking or anything like it while at that time an ATC judgement had been upheld...by teh SHC...nawaz sharif can now participate in politics...

Jul18-2009--Nawaz Sharif and Zardari meet again after eight months as zardari goes to raiwind...sharif who is supposedly a gilani supporter was told that ANP and mqm insist on pukhtunkhwa and provincial autonomy...both have generally been rejected and nawaz sharif would find it difficult to support an 18th amendment that was not clearly pro primeminister or which did not allow him tobe primeminister again...The ANP and mqm are not really required to support an amendment and nawaz sharif and his brother gave zardari secret advice about how to go about things...many suggest that the PPP is clearly divided betwwen teh anti people gilani and the sindhi wadera who might not be interested in losing all his power...zardari only seems interested in what the mqm wants or what he perceives tobe good for sindh...he seems to have little interest in teh punjab and many critisize his cronyistic attitudes.. he also replaced tariq aziz with salman farooki as the talks envoy to india...in sindh provincial autonomy means how to usurp even more water from punjab and get them to sign on an NFC which is supposedly even worse than teh one created by musharaf and pervaiz elahi...The PPP wants to appoint all local government administrators since it is still a federal matter..zardaris strange nature was noted by many as this is his first visit to lahore after becoming president...political leaders in power apparently prefer visiting areas where they have camp offices...

Jul18-2009--The sindhi nature of teh PPP regime was explained even in more detail when the ecnec dams proposal was announced ...sindh given 21.6 billlion, balochistan 22.3 billion, punjab 5.7 billion and nwfp 3.4 billion...it must be terribly difficult to build dams in balochistan and sindh...or might be teh dams in punjab are tiny small ones

Jul18-2009--The UN commission on Benazir wants only voluntary infomation and they dont want to summon anyone..apparently it is just another scotland yard type thing and will try to explain how it happened...a lot of information is now available to pakistan and teh UN on teh issue and still teh government has made no move to apprehend or detain anyone...

Jul18-2009--The ministry of water and power in an advert since no one is now willing to even print anything on their power politics gave a list of 19 projects which they say will enable load shedding to end in december...at the moment load shedding has reached a new high in rawalpindi and one cannot say what is happening in other areas..how Pepco or whoever does it will be able to handle the generally private sector projects and whether they can get and maintain fuel supplies is as yet unknown...

Jul18-2009--Hillary Clinton who apparently seems to have given up on the kashmir issue faster than anyone in US history saying it is a pakistan-india bilateral issue says that her visit to india should not threaten pakistan...since teh US has always projected indian views one just hopes that they will not create even further trouble for pakistan...the troubles they created in pakistan over teh last decade are an example that she should not talk to teh indnians about pakistans internal issues since she will be avoiding talking about bilateral issues...

Jul18-2009--In what many say is teh dual nature of teh indians manmohan refused to talk to pakistan despite agreeing to delink terrorism and other issues.. one hopes he will by now have realized that the cause is there tobe pursued and everything is directed at that..The indian opposition saw no point in their avoiding talks with pakistan for eight months...manmohan is being accused of a sell out...many say the BJP thought that the bombay incident would aid them but teh opposite happened...

Jul18-2009--drone kills five in north waziristan

Jul18-2009--30 shops gutted as two nato oil tankers blownup in khyber agency

Jul18-2009--ASI shot dead in DI Khan

Jul18-2009--governments strange policies ...no subsidies to the people but sindhs farmers to get 3000 subsidized tractors...?