The Daily Pakistanpolitics Dec12-16, 2009

• Dec16-2009--In what many say is teh governments considerable lack of discipline the governments aging lawyer Kamal Azfar's statement that teh government was under threat from teh CIA and GHQ in teh NRO case was taken to task by the SC saying that teh court was willing to issue a restraining order against teh GHQ if teh government is willing to be specific...azfar belongs to the very old days when teh GHQ and teh american CIA were usually upto their usual tricks...there have however been reports of military conclaves which can do things to teh government at a moments notice even though many think that teh military has lost the desire to intervene directly after three previous disastrous military rule attempts...with teh chief justice hinting that there could be 50 fallouts from our decision and another judge asking if teh government is trying to save asif ali zardari...teh government however said that they were willing to accept teh courts wisdom...?teh CJ however commented there is a clear way to impeach a president and teh judges should respect whoever is in teh presidency..whether corrupt,illegal or a coup plotter...It was again observed that teh countries agencies and media want to create evidence after an allegation rather than before and even after decades of investigations they had no real answer to what they were doing...investigating a crime, building one up or plotting a political victimisation
  
• Dec16-2009--suicide car blast in DG Khan in front of PMLn leaders house kills 24
  
• Dec16-2009--Yusuf Raza Gilani seizes personal control of the planning commission,ministry of development, ministry of investment and ministry of education transferring teh education minister to ministry of industries and the industries minister to head the kashmir and baltistan affairs ministry...minister of investment made minister of privatisation which was previously headed by naveed qamar...ajmal qasab came from the area of the new kashmir affairs minister...chairman planning commission becomes advisor on education...
  
• Dec16-2009--government again resorts to load shedding for the untenable reason of canal closures...obvious unavailaibility of standby power generation...many suggest that teh government should stop power to teh countries 200,000 tubewells,rural areas and industrial sectors rather than trouble the multitudes in bigger cities and towns...and conserve power...
  
• Dec16-2009--government seeks the arrest of ex ehtesab bureau chief saif ur rehman who is absconding since 1999 for cutting and torturing asif zardari...saif ur rehman says asif zardari cut his own tongue with a broken glass while others say a police officer threatened to cut his tongue if he ever spoke again...saif ur rehman a bmw car dealer had acquired considerable power during teh nawaz sharif era and was supposedly responsible for even selecting ministers...
  
• Dec16-2009--controversial lawyers baber awan,malik qayuum, sharifuddin pirzada and ali waseem refuse to appear before NAB about allegations of corruption by haris steel owner who is involved involved in a 9 billion BOP loan scam...
  
• Dec16-2009--americans warn pakistan to windup the tribal rebellion and the quetta shura in 18 months while pakistan suggests that they also leave afghanistan in eighteen months...american general says pakistan moving very slowly
  
• Dec16-2009--nine killed in kurram operations and 22 in orakzai air strikes
  
• Dec16-2009--two nato oil tankers set on fire in balochistan, loti gas field pipeline blownup and bomb blast in quetta.
  
• Dec16-2009--government continues lavish subsidies to rich agricultural landowners while crying over minimal or non existent subsidies for teh people at large...