The Daily PakistanPolitics Oct9, 2009
Oct9-2009--The foreign office comes out with teh truth on teh Kerry Lugar bill saying that they asked for teh inclusion of teh clause pertaining to civilian oversight of the military, defence budget, strategic chain of command etc and only opposed including the provision on nuclear matters and ceasing support for terrorist networks...they say pakistans apprehensions were not addressed in teh bill and teh secretary of state could routinely certify things if teh US became a friendly state overnight...Foreign Office spokesman says the PPP and teh foreign office does not have to certify or do anything and it could be possible that after teh first two three six monthly tranches the aid could be stopped under teh controversial certification of literally pakistani governance...they also seemed to have irked one US lawmaker who said that they could give their intelligence and old aging F-16s and harpoon missiles to other countries in south asia...please be our guest is the answer to that...they too will learn how allies who are given F-16's are treated...The US has just built in a stoppage method of aid if suddenly afghanistan is solved and it would thus be in pakistans interests financially to have trouble continue in afghanistan and supposedly Fata as well just so that teh US remains interested...The PPP continued to pooh pooh teh armies views despite a general reluctance in teh PPP to defend teh american-indian stance...It would many say give rise to further taleban influence such as teh bomb blast outside teh indian embassy in kabul which many say is for interfering in pakistans internal ...!...matters...The indians should also be forced many say to stop diplomatic enmity with pakistan...dawn reports that the american ambassador was apparently told by zardari that some of teh bills language was inappropiate...Oct9-2009--The US deputy ambassador was rapped on teh knuckles for controversial utterances and apparently running an intelligence operation to see if their armed men could get thru teh police cordons.....he was also asked for his intelligence reports on teh quetta shura..Oct9-2009--There have been a semblance of protests at the non completion of projects in the earthquake devastated areas even after four years and even some direct accusations of Erra corruption...!!Oct9-2009--bomb blast outside indian embassy in kabul kills 17Oct9-2009--nine militants killed in north waziristanOct9-2009--As army claims to have cleared 95% of swat.. bodies of 15 militants found while 24 were killed in operations...over 251 bodies have been found in swat since julyOct9-2009--former top malakand official released after four months in custodyOct9-2009--In what can be a rare one off occasion 13 controversial IB heads gathered at a dinner with current IB chief Javed Noor...most governments have appointed near and dear ones to teh IB to protect their hides...IB officials have played more politics than gathering intelligence...they and former ISI chiefs create more trouble than any government can manage onits own...Oct9-2009--pakistans state bank reserves rise to over $11 billion with over $5 billion of IMF loans...it shows only a slight improvement in teh economic picture
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