The Daily PakistanPolitics Oct 13-15, 2009

Oct15-2009--The PPP which seeks to further divide regional areas rather than create opportunities for integration sees red as punjabis and sindhis clash in teh quaid e azam university...the universities hostels one of the few run on a countrywide basis are divided on an ethnic basis...

Oct15-2009--AJK primeminister Sardar yaqoob resigns as ministers ditch him for a new coalition

Oct15-2009--The explanatory note issued by teh US congress and senate makes the annual certification by Hilary Clinton rather a simple affair as they have dropped total control of the armed forces and interrogation and access to nuclear related personnel as well as clearly stating that there will be no micromanagement...certification is annual and pakistan will probably safely get $1.5 billion next year and the year after that and than teh situation in afghanistan and US intransigence will probably end it..The US says it is in for the long haul but at most pakistan will get it for a maximun of five years before teh US and pakistan get tired of each other ie if a coup does not intervene...

Oct15-2009--17 killed in south waziristan air strikes as troops move into salarzai, bajaur...

Oct15-2009--Deputy speaker of teh NA suspends faisal saleh hayat for a day and Jamshed Dasti for the rest of teh current session...

Oct15-2009--apparently Rehman malik not allowed to enter GHQ...!

Oct15-2009--KESC fined a paltry Rs. 6 lakhs....

Oct15-2009--Raja Riaz the supposed head of teh PPP in punjab who has bartered away punjabs NFC share says he will not allow punjabs water share tobe diluted

Oct15-2009--local american embassy officials continue to insist that taleban trying to establish a base in balochistan..this time it is the consul in karachi who goes bonkers...

Oct15-2009--Army establishes base in kala dhaka

Oct14-2009--Nawaz Sharif who is getting used to an easy life doubtful about electoral participation via NA123

Oct14-2009--rumpus with abusive language in NA after faisal saleh calls the US aid bill Kerry-Haqqani who is seen by many as the anti military language writer in the bill...

Oct14-2009--The SC dropped charges of contempt against judges who apologized for taking an oath under the PCO but refused any review of its July 31 judgement...

Oct14-2009-- NFC approved the equalisation of well head taxes between provinces...balochistan to get an additional 3 billion but they refused to handle the 1960-2001 claims by balochistan which went to the balochistan package for consideration...The new distribution mechanism recognizes tax contribution as well as population , poverty and area...not much change is expected however... punjab they say expects an increase towards its population share of 57%...punjab has suffered badly under military rule and continues tobe neglected by teh PPP regime...

Oct14-2009--reports suggest that pakistan might get some of its F-16d new planes from teh US in June next year and completion of teh contract in over four years by December 2010

Oct13-2009--15 killed in bajaur air strike

Oct13-2009--The 1973 constitution which instituted population as teh criterion for the NFC is dead as teh anti punjab federal government is using all its resources to crush punjabs legal share in taxes...

Oct13-2009--The LHC quashed the political victimisation cases against Hafiz saeed

Oct13-2009--most of the GHQ terrorists from nwfp/fata with one from punjab...police find 11 pairs of shoes at hideout and say operation planned/ordered in south waziristan and van bought from rawalpindi...one qari majid reportedly picked up...

Oct13-2009--balochistans chief inspector of mines shot dead in quetta

Oct13-2009--Sardar Latif Khosa removed as attorney general and becomes primeministers advisor