The Daily Pakistanpolitics Dec28-30, 2009

• Dec30-2009--The new NFC award tobe signed in Gwadar...The award is based on the considerable expansion in revenues in teh country, a 5% handout by the punjab and the center increasing provincial share by 10%...sindh and balochistan to benefit from considerably higher gas prices and nwfp and balochistan being given a 100 billion seperate handout by the center
  
• Dec30-2009--Four nato oil tankers destroyed near Sibi
  
• Dec30-2009--Nawaz sharif rejects zardari accusations of being a non state actor destablizing democracy suggesting that zardari and his misguided regime themselves responsible by deputing non state organizations to hike prices and taking terrible economic advice from the IMF and major non state actors that they work with...
  
• Dec30-2009-- As is well known washington based on AQ Khan accusations again blames musharaf and kidwai as the major nuclear proliferators to north korea...AQ khan in another letter confiscated from his daughter in 2004 says that pakistan provided nuclear help to north korea over six years...North Korea the washington post says could have been enriching uranium thru 3000 centrifuges by 2002..pakistan rejects accusations as teh north koreans are said tobe more advanced than the pakistanis and acquired nuclear bomb materials thru other methods...
  
• Dec30-2009--37 militants and 4 levies men killed in orakzai operations
  
• Dec30-2009--PAF chief inducts an AWAC aircraft in the karachi sector which he says will be able to detect aircraft taking off from the indian side...given the indian army chiefs mischievous statement that they could achieve their military objectives in 96 hours after starting hostilities against pakistan...pakistan military operations chiefs retaliated by saying that delhi would be a pile of rubble in 96 hours...
  
• Dec30-2009--seven killed in mohmand shelling
  
• Dec30-2009--thousands of shops in the bolton market to light house area were set on fire by what can at best said tobe shiite miscreants..nobody else would go near such processions these days due to the countries situation......teh karachi fire deptt was inefficient as despite latest equipment it could not douse teh fires...despite a government holiday situation remained tense and uneasy...
  
• Dec29-2009--videos of the bombings showed nothing much except people running from the scene...later suggestions emerged that shiite reactionaries set fire to buildings and hampered fire trucks as police watched...after the blast many say the only people on teh street were either cops or under cover cops...others suggested that the fires could have been part of the blast plan...many say karachiites wise to stay away from such potentially dangerous processions...others suggested that teh shiite reactionaries were part of the procession as there was no one on teh streets apart from the procession...
  
• Dec29-2009--As sectarianism resurfaced in karachi a bomb blast at a shiite procession killed 43...reactionaries who are worse than the terrorists than set buildings, cars, police stations and shops on fire ...over a 1000 shops burnt with four buildings near collapse...there were minor indications that terrorists were moving back to karachi which had not seen any suicide terrorism for over two years...many however feel that the terrorists were boxed in by military actions in teh north and had to escape as the heat mounted on them...furthermore the lack of reactions in teh north and the teh governments passivity literally accepting terrorism as something they could not control caused them to hit back at an area that worried the government more...such reactionary terrorism especially arson oriented had surfaced at teh time of Benazirs death and many believe it is orchestrated by various forces including extremist mohajirs, secessionists and some even say indian terrorism orchestrators...it is basically carried out by area hoods who are always willing to move out in times of trouble...many blame the mqm for its orchestration as their area violence control is said tobe better than other parties...video shown on television seemed unable to detect anything even though police was saying that they were getting some information...others say that one of the heads found was that of a scout...the government has been unable to control terrorism and they seem to have a reserve of suicide bombers and their coworkers who can move from area to area...karachi has seen quite a lot of sectarianism over the past two decades and is said tobe a hotbed for LJ activists despite an almost total or widespread anti sunni/taleban suppression...police in karachi have literally gone after all sorts of terrorists and gun runners and have said to be involved in literally shooting to kill even old SSP workers...mqm also said tobe involved in killing opponents and sunni activists of the LJ/taleban/SSP types...
  
• Dec28-2009--Zardari blows hot and cold at benazir anniversary claiming a conspiracy is afoot...many see his government as being controlled by the financial haves and beaurocratic brokers who are as always against teh peoples well being or against teh people... despite political successes..in over two years sindh has been unable to exploit their coal reserves which nobody has looted, electricity and gas load shedding continues and prices hikes of over 100% in electricity, gas and food have stifled life..in fact in teh countries north gas pressure is so low that people cant use it to even cook food...reports of government getting ready to increase medicine prices as well...!!..The NFC is seen as barely changing anything and only punjab has given up 5% of its share...Zardari says he is now going to appoint a woman governor to gilgit baltistan ...something that even Benazir avoided...they talk about teh 1973 constitutions restoration but it is now all meaningless to the people who have little hope of any good coming from such convoluted governance by people who worry about their own powers but not of teh sufferings of teh people...the governance is just a little different from that being practiced by the military...The governments mind boggling attitude is demonstrated by media reports covering teh karachi mayhem in which they slotted in the news that the IMF had approved a further $1.2 billion in loans as if the target of the bomb blasts was the IMF..the economy is of little interest to anyone when all it does is raise prices of essential livelihood...
  
• Dec28-2009--low intensity blast causes injuries in karachi
  
• Dec28-2009--7 killed in muzzafarabad in a suicide attack on shiite procession
  
• Dec28-2009--death toll in saturdays drone attack in north waziristan rises to 13
  
• Dec28-2009--11 militants killed in orakzai in clashes and aerial bombings
  
• Dec28-2009--7 killed in sadda, lower kurram blast at a low level tribal officials home