The Daily PakistanPolitics Dec1, 2009

• Dec1, 2009--The Obama letter continues to raise hackles as teh US wont give pakistan what it wants and expects it to deliver something they cannot...afghanistans solution lies inside afghanistan and given the situation on this side of the border one can hardly believe that teh taleban are capable of incursions from anywhere in pakistan...The US seems frightened of fighting the afghan taleban and is blowing hot and cold over something that might not be deliverable...by pakistan...The US has crisscrossed over fata and other border areas of pakistan and killed hundreds thru its drones but been incapable of getting the two al qaeda leaders or even one that it wants...many believe that teh US is acting on indian and afghan intelligence while others believe that the ISI is providing it all available information...however teh US attitude of running hot and cold with pakistan continues according to the NYT...many suggest that US information might be based on bounty hunters...If the US continues to ally with teh indians than they might never be able to solve afghanistan and will always keep pakistan unstable due to teh indians animosity...with supposed problems or US casaulties occurring in the mainly pukhtun belt in afghanistan running alongside the pakistan border teh solution could well be some sort of internal independence for the afghan pukhtuns...or just a withdrawal from pukhtun areas by US forces...barring the supply points...The pakistanis reportedly have been against a US withdrawal as it might cause a backlash into pakistani territories once they are free of pressure inside afghanistan...pakistan has on the other hand asked for drones to be supplied to them so that they can try outwitting the tribals while publically opposing US drone incursions and attacks...many problems are created by teh US militaries unrealistic attitudes mainly towards pakistan and involvement in politics and thinking that every thing can be handled with force...others suggest that teh US actually wants to fight pakistan rather than create a democratic peaceful afghan state...more strategic cooperation is hardly anything attractive to pakistan who know the US much better than the rest of the world and it would turn out as many think here tobe a US-indian scheme to further dupe teh pakistanis thru political machinations...
  
  
• Dec1, 2009--The governments policy of duping the public and benefitting the industrial-agricultural ruling elite continues with yet another hike in petroleum prices...petrol now at Rs66 per litre...
  
  
• Dec1, 2009--The constitutional amendments are bedevilled many say by the demands of nwfp...starting out with extortionistic hydel royalties based on dubious calculations...that also includes a controversial renaming of nwfp opposed by teh PML's and new demands that want provincial languages tobe declared national languages as well as the presidency tobe rotated amongst the provinces...sindh on the other hand wants an illogical share of teh national resources...some say jovially that the sindhis want their cap tobe nationalized too or provided constitutional protection...many different caps are worn in sindh
  
  
• Dec1, 2009--Yusuf Raza Gilani generally regarded as a pro indian politician who has been accused by teh indians of being related to a US terrorist called daoud gilani says the indians are very insincere...Danyal gilani a PRO to the PM since shaukat aziz's days claims he is his estranged half brother while the more sincere shah mahmood qureshi falls into indian traps and says terrorism threatens everyone and suggests euro intervention in indo pak relations
  
  
• Dec1, 2009--15 more baloch released by teh army
  
  
• Dec1, 2009--In bajaur a girls school is destroyed and fauji and afghan spy killed
  
  
• Dec1, 2009--Rehman Malik refuses to accept that he could be replaced as interior minister...teh interior minister has been functioning more as a messenger to altaf hussein than doing anything to improve teh working of police and internal security services...
  
  
• Dec1, 2009--66 killed in khyber agency operations and troops searching for militant leaders after capturing LI hq's
  
  
• Dec1, 2009--10 militants killed in Kurram operations
  
  
• Dec1, 2009--many in punjab think that asif zardaris nara of pakistan khapay means pakistan is mere noise or trouble
  
  
• Dec1, 2009--army says it will participate in Fata reconstruction...while yusuf raza said that he had already made his plans... nwfp governor told tobe ready with detailed initiatives for devlopment of the area ...army and airforce chief visit operational areas to demonstrate teh armies new anti terrorist weapon...three feet wide wire(jali) filled concrete anti bomb walls...encouraging the frightened politicians to visit forward areas many say