The Daily Pakistan Politics--Aug16-17, 2009

Aug17-2009--The government again seems tobe implementing its anti people policy of hiking prices...again deliberately late in importing sugar and suggesting that they could not pickup sugar that mills had already been paid for...The punjab government which seems part of the sugar lobby also hiked retail sugar prices to Rs52..while reports of sugar being sold at Rs54-60...while teh production minister said that utility stores would sell sugar at Rs38 till december

Aug17-2009--mardan and swabi hit by flash rain floods killing 13 and washing away many houses...

Aug17-2009--17 of the maulvi nazir faction killed in apparent factional fighting in south waziristan as a hospital was bombed in makeen killing another twelve...

Aug17-2009--In what many term as using state resources for personal power esteem teh punjab government allocated 21 billion to turn a good four lane road into an eight lane behemoth between thokhar niaz baig and raiwind without assembly approval...!The provincial government has teh same discriminatory policy of allocating funds as teh federal government...

Aug17-2009--four soldiers injured in mingora suicide attack on a nawan kallay checpost while 18 bodies found in various swat areas...officials say over eighty such bodies found in various areas over last three months..army rejects accusations of mass killings...!

Aug17-2009--holbrooke says that pakistan has shifted focus from teh indian front to its internal areas in teh northwest...says pakistan backed out of south waziristan operation...while for the US advice is cheap spares for helicopters he says are difficult to acquire..

Aug17-2009--rocket attacks continue on kohat from the bezote area in kohat

Aug17-2009--two militants killed in bajaur

Aug16-2009--The sugar crisis worsened as teh cdgk raided godowns of 50000 bags of sugar...teh government said that there were 200000 tonnes of sugar lying around in factories some even paid for...but the governments moves suggested a collusion rather than attempts at reducing prices...

Aug16-2009--three soldiers and two civilians killed in suicide attack on checpost in khawazakhela

Aug16-2009--SBP cuts interests rates by 1% to 13%...

Aug16-2009--Sindh running out of male landless haris and land is now being distributed to women farmers a commodity rarely noticed...barring off course teh benazir daughters and sister

Aug16-2009--military convoy attacked in north waziristan killing one soldier as militant factions clash in tank killing four

Aug16-2009--In khuzdar a hand grenade attack on FC personnel kills one

Aug16-2009--sugar at Rs70 in hazara as rockets hit nowshera

Aug16-2009--Gilani says he has no liking for musharaf but he has limited powers todo anything in the present system

Aug16-2009--taleban abduct a UC nazim in malakand and behead two policemen as they regain strength in the palai area

Aug16-2009--nato oil tankers attacked in pishin

Aug16-2009--saboteurs blowup two 500kv power pylons in sindh and a 220KV pylon on teh shikarpur-Uch power line