The Daily PakistanPolitics--Sep12-14, 2009

Sep14-2009--over 700 khasadars in khyber fired after they refused to report for duty over threats from the mangal bagh LI...

Sep14-2009--the Interior minister getting braver says troops surrounding mullah fazlullah and says they will deal with mangal bagh just like baitullah

Sep14-2009--In bara three security men killed as vehicle hits roadside bomb

Sep14-2009--In the malakand area police blowup a potential suicide car bomb...

Sep14-2009--Indians continue their negative attitudes towards pakistan as they protest pakistans confusing stand on gilgit baltistan...pakistan has de facto occupied gilgit baltistan but its status is outside teh purview of its national assembly creating a situation of an illegal but de facto province...a similar situation in azad kashmir is treated differently by giving it independence...Shah mahmood qureshi has a generally better viewpoint on most issues than the pathetic primeminister whose ministers do nothing but defend price hikes...although one would doubt that the lakhra coal has not been developed due to resources...one however does not agree that subsidized tractors for teh rich agriculturists is a good policy given governments refusal of subsidies in other fields...

Sep14-2009--The controversy over bringing the coup plotter musharaf to court on constitutional charges of treason continues as teh controversial saudis trying to force nawaz sharif off track...musharaf on teh other hand wants corp commanders and judges also tobe brought to trial and hopes that the judiciary too will back off...many see teh feeble pathetic PPP regime as having lost its basic mandate by implementing a dangerous foreign and financial policy and becoming literally establishment controlled...

Sep14-2009--four killed in dera bugti blast

Sep14-2009--soldier and two militants killed in swat

Sep14-2009--The governments policy of price hikes and creating shortages and than allowing sale of cheaper commodities at a few venues has killed at least two people who have to stand in ques say newspaper reports...teh governments mean and nasty policies are meant to enrich teh agricultural producers and create a despondency and sense of helplessness, urgency,deprivation and hardship amongst people especially in urban centers...the government which is the creater of problems thru bad policies than benefits as people are unable to protest and attack its policies due to their burdened and difficult life...

Sep13-2009--governments competition commission of pakistan raids sugar mills association office...sugar mills have been acting as a cartel creating problems for the people...

Sep13-2009--Indians fire into pakistan near wagah over alleged rocket fire from pakistani side...

Sep13-2009--suicide blast near hangu police station

Sep13-2009--350 khasadars dismissed for refusing to perform their duties after threats from a mangal bagh FM station...helicopter gunships killed 22 militants in attacks on LI positions in the tirah valley

Sep13-2009--In what is being described as teh distribution of corruption cents teh punjab PPP also came out for higher prices of electricity by supporting an astronomically high 16 cents per unit for an IPL...one wonders what teh PPP is up to...earlier raja ashraf said that teh prices being negotiated were nearer 13 cents while faisal saleh hayat said that they were giving upto 18.17 cents...many suggest that PPP office bearers have also being assured of a few cents in rishwat...?many suggest that teh US team also supposedly suggested that average prices of electricity be further raised to above those in the USA while the dumb pakistani ministers sat in appreciative silence...

Sep12-2009--It seems that the taleban think their spokesmen can be dispensed with as swats top taleban spokesman muslim khan and four commanders are arrested...other reports suggest that muslim khan formerly of teh PSF has been ordered out by the PPP...?still other reports suggest that he has been lured out for negotiations or been part of a negotiating team...some taleban have turned against their bosses due to the high death toll while others suggest an end to a combined fight after the losses at the top of the taleban heirarchy...

Sep12-2009--Dawn reports suggest that rehman malik might visit kabul to meet brahmdagh bugti while teh army has asked the US to urge kabul to hand over teh subversive baloch

Sep12-2009--In sambrial a church set on fire after christians purportedly desecrated teh quran the muslims holy book...In gojra too the initial incident that caused the problem was the tearing up of an islamic textbook and throwing teh paper pieces around...

Sep12-2009--wagah reportedly tense as explosions reported from indian village

Sep12-2009--CJ BHC issues notices to musharaf to appear in the FIR registration case of akber bugtis death

Sep12-2009--every government since zulfikar ali bhutto has issued a textile and education policy thinking they were doing it for the first time...zulfikar ali bhutto had to wear the kamiz shalwars himself to popularize local cloth at that time considered very inferior to japanese products

Sep12-2009--two militants killed in swat

Sep12-2009--security forces destroy teh houses of sixty militants in the doog darra area of dir

Sep12-2009--In kohat a power pylon is blownup

Sep12-2009--rehman malik says that while teh government is on teh defensive against continuous indian propaganda over the bombay incidents they are ready not only to debate teh issue but send in a team to investigate...after teh investigations on ajmal kasab the rest of those involved have not been investigated...india has been insisting that pakistan apprehend hafiz saeed who they say supposedly addressed meetings at LT training camps for teh bombay invaders...

Sep12-2009--In khyber the political agent threatens to fire khasadars who donot report for duty after militant threats

Sep12-2009--The dawn reports that the cement cartel has failed as cement prices have fallen by around a 105 after action by the CCP which fined teh cement producers over Rs6 billion...however since cement production is much higher than requirements falling demand has hurt teh market which might be losing export contracts as well which were mostly to india...The price hike champion and industrial agent yusuf raza than tried to have the CCP chairman fired...