The Daily PakistanPolitics--July 23-26, 2009
Jul26-2009--In what many see as a shrinking of the oil bill from $11.64 to $9.509 in 2008-9..could be a ballooning in quantity due to the massive fall in oil prices..pakistani imports shrank in general barring a few food products...such as sugar, wheat, tea and pulses and power generation machineryJul26-2009--In what many see as a surprise the supposedly straight barring hiring relatives yusuf raza gilani seems to have a corrupt wife...she apparently was part of two companies who refused to return agricultural loans of Rs.71 million and over Rs.100 million...one wondered where they had got their money...NAB judge refuses to back downJul26-2009--bottling plant manager and worker shot dead in quettaJul26-2009--banks and educational institutions to open in mingoraJul26-2009--one militant killed afer police storm a suspects residence in quettaJul26-2009--ex mna named in killing of polish geological engineerJul26-2009--In what many see as punjabs reduction in influence the PPP brought in a ghafoor mirza seen as a pro zardari type as a private punjab rep and fired hina rabbani khar from teh NFC committee...Gilani who will now head the NFC will have to stand up for punjab for them to get their extorted finances back from sindh...Jul26-2009--Armed forces kill 10 militants in Buner, 4 in swat and capture a cave full of ammunitionJul26-2009--raja ashraf refuses to nationalize KESC but says we can take tough measures such as replacing management by Nepra as he expects to reduce power shortages soon...he says load shedding teh problem not Tariffs which he says he will raise by Rs3...government at teh moment seemingly not subsidizing electricity...says load shedding brought down PMLq which is obviously false...Nepra many suggest only authorized to fix prices...many suggest that tariff hiks... could possibly bring down teh PPP regime as in winter load shedding hardly matters whether it ends or not...!!Jul26-2009--TNSM tries to activate itself again after it failed in controlling teh swat and malakand mayhem...whether government will allow it to start its activities again is not clear...Sufi mohammed had escaped from lower dir after teh situation worsened and has resurfaced in peshawar after travelling all around teh area...Jul26-2009--JSQM strike in sindh after their convoy was attacked in karachi on friday killing a district president...poor response in thar and hyderabad while 19 were arrested..one attacker killed by JSQM while remaining attacker being grilled...JSQM hands over two ISI identity cards which agency says are fake...cards say they were sources...men supposedly also belong to an mqm faction and have criminal recordsJul26-2009--PMLn's thieving mpa shomaila rana resignsJul26-2009--In lakki marwat nine policemen injured as suicide bomber rams police vanJul26-2009--IED damages vehicles on indus highway near kohatJul26-2009--ANF shoot dead a man driving a vehicle that did not stop at teh chakri interchangeJul25-2009--In karachi a JSQM rally fired upon killing their thatta president while one attacker was killed and another arrestedJul25-2009--musharaf says he will defend himself in courtJul25-2009--PPP says that they and provincial governments do not want the LG system and that provinces will soon move to appoint administrators instead..many suggest that teh current politicians could not tolerate the almost independent LG system...and would probably appoint administrators and forget to hold new elections...the LG system was successful at the grassroots level until people like pervez elahi started to dismantle it...Jul25-2009--chemistry professor shot dead in quettaJul25-2009--CNIC name verification now possible by sending SMS to 7000Jul25-2009--21 taleban killed in swat and dirJul24-2009--SC also backs out on electricity tariff and tamely tells Nepra to inform it before raising tariffs...teh SC falling in with government statements that tariff would only be hiked after ending load shedding...Jul24-2009--Damani dam breaches in barkhanJul24-2009--carpet factory in mach jail set on fire by prisonersJul24-2009--PPP again defers its cabinet reshuffle...many see most ministers as not functioning properly and teh primeminister as just sitting around...most say that gilani and zardari want their own lackeys in important positions which causes a reshuffle tobe difficult to manage...Jul24-2009--principal of a school gunned down in quettaJul24-2009--gas pipeline blownup near khairpurJul23-2009--The SC in what many say is a stop start process of courage and weakness issues a challenge to musharaf to explain his Nov3 actions...Jul23-2009--27 militants killed in malakand as suspected training centers in south waziristan bombed killing ten militantsJul23-2009--yusuf raza gilani allocates 28 civil service jobs to baloch and 57 to women in the 2008 batchJul23-2009--one soldier killed in miranshahJul23-2009--The PPP which is big on relatives in government appoints tauqir sadiq a jehangir badar brother in law as OGRA chief...Jul23-2009--BRP says they are fighting without foreign help...government has available to it data showing baloch rebel leaders visiting indian consulates etc...Jul23-2009--Zardari supports chinese suppression of teh muslim uighurs in xinjiang...teh controversial chinese actions against the uighurs have a long history as the chinese are bringing in han to make them economically weaker...Jul23-2009--four mqm men booked for killing a policeman in karachi as more KESC centers are attacked and mqm suggests handing over KESC to the CDGK
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