The Daily PakistanPolitics Aug26, 2009

Aug26-2009--The taleban finally agreed that Baitullah was dead and appointed the orakzai chief hakimullah who led three tribal regions--(khyber and kurram as well...)as teh next taleban chief..hakimullah has led a fierce anti US campaign in the orakzai, torkham and peshawar areas creating problems along the nato routes, alongwith several high level kidnappings...teh army has been reluctant to go in strongly in only two areas ie orakzai and south waziristan...hakeemullah 28, being a junior was facing opposition from both seniors as well as waliurrehman but that opposition has apparently been settled as waliurehman has been given control of south waziristan...the new strategy of the taleban is yet to be seen whether pakistan gets ravaged alongwith teh US occupied afghanistan or the taleban start concentrating more on afghanistan...The taleban strategy which started after the lal masjid seige saw major suicide attacks inside pakistan turning the whole north west of pakistan into a sensitive troubled area causing a major army offensive in the FATA and PATA areas of nwfp...The army which has had a long relationship with the tribal areas and the taleban had to finally take off its gloves and combined with US drone attacks has brought some sanity back to the region...

Aug26-2009--Sindh which can be said to be pakistans most developed province in terms of,oil and gas deposits, jobs, education, health services and industrialisation is teh biggest complainer of the NFC award...even the two smaller provinces donot complain as much as do teh sindhis...they now want the NFC award to be based on revenue collection(which contains even basic taxation of other provinces in teh context of large corporations and countrywide organisations),backwardness, geographical factors,area and population...many say that all taxation forms should be included including those already allocated seperately to provinces in the divisible pool...things like sales taxes, royalty, oil and gas surcharges which are supposedly paid for by teh common man should not be tabulated seperately as sindh wants all solutions that should benefit it rather than every province...according to a general understanding population is the only criterion in teh constitution but several varying parameters are already enjoyed by provinces like sindh which is already getting much more than its population share...punjab has suggested that sindhs share be reduced to less than thirty per cent and nwfp and balochistan be compensated on an individual basis until their basic needs are fulfilled...

Aug26-2009--construction company employing pakistani engineers bombed in kandahar killing over 40...

Aug26-2009--Jamil Bugti's plea to institute an FIR against musharaf for the killing of akber bugti in a Sibi session court...IG and SHO dera bugti asked to attend next court hearing...Akber Bugti died in 2006 while hiding in the bugti hills and was apparently tracked down by armies undercover sleuths or some say privately funded khojis...apparently as 30-40 soldiers approached he detonated a bomb killing himself alongwith numerous soldiers...what actually happened is generally said tobe unknown as his body was than buried by the administration without his family...

Aug26-2009--Indians get Interpol to issue a red corner notice against hafiz saeed

Aug26-2009--initially thumbs were marked with ink only for elections...now babies get them for polio vaccinations and people when buying subsidized atta...!!

Aug26-2009--two mqm men shot dead in karachi

Aug26-2009--The law minister negates article 105...if a chief minister gives advice than it must be followed...the comments of the governor on judges reccommendations are not supposed to be personal...theoretically teh governor should ask the chief minister to get teh input of the police and intelligence organisations as all lawyers are neither known to teh governor or teh chief minister

Aug26-2009--PMLn says that 1992 army operation in sindh ordered by nawaz sharif against dacoits...they say that pro MQM corp commander Naseer Ahmed and altaf hussein got karachi and hyderabad included in teh operation...wanting action against 89 mqm opponents...but when mqm's actions against the army were brought into play altaf hussein left for england after a deal with general janjua saying at karachi airport that he was abandoning politics forever...general janjua than died of a suspicious heart attack some say administered thru a poison in a cup of tea..The mushraf regime literally turned karachi into a one party state literally prisoning all mqm opponents...

Aug26-2009--Real PMLq leaders goto meet musharaf..pro musharaf humayun akhters meeting triggers condemnation and concern ...

Aug26-2009-- three more bodies found in swat

Aug26-2009--two militants killed in clash with FC in quetta