The Daily Pakistanpolitics Dec6-8, 2009

• Dec8-2009--In what many are calling the subjugation of the pakistan army the NRO president and primeminister are finally venturing into the terror stricken army city of rawalpindi under the protection of teh armies top duo..both have avoided rawalpindi like teh plague...the fortified zardari(reports of building a wall around the red area in islamabad or a fence) who only ventures out of his fortress to go to the airport has refused to appear at events in punjab and even a PPP rally in lahore... is being compared to the MQMs equally frightened altaf who refuses to venture even into the mqm home base of karachi..he also did not take the dangerous route of going to the CMH by road but went by helicopter...with the jittery gilani appearing at a collective army funeral apparently suggesting that i am the quaid and not zardari...?off late controversy after controvery have followed the top duo...what with loan writeoffs for gilani and having an american terrorist related PRO...while Zardari apparently refused to wear the jinnah cap and started a campaign for teh sindhi caps revival...not many sindhis appeared for teh karachi cap rally...others are suggesting that the PPP is against teh sindhis wearing regional identifications...otherwise punjabis might have to start appearing in dhotis and mohajirs in pyjamas...europeans already regard pakistanis as going around in their sleeping suits(kameez shalwars)...this amongst reports that top army generals refused teh appointment of a new army chief suggesting that kiyani continue for the present...other controversies bogged down teh PPP further after gilani was unable to handle a cabinet reshuffle and the buck was passed back to Zardari who suggested that they were just going to reshuffle ministers of state who suggested that they would join teh PMLq if removed...The SC on teh other hand wanted a complete list of NRO beneficiaries and suggested that the SC would only deal with the NRO issue and not teh overall issue of those benefitting continually from government largesse...most governments have been plagued with the same issues of benefitting individuals or special interest groups...The PPP says that they have gained a few thousand votes by policies benefitting agricultural landlords and the sugar industrialists...
  
• Dec8-2009--PMLn supports balochistan package which some say is cosmetic...government says it is looking for missing persons and studying financial and constitutional problems and studying how to deal with musharafs involvement in the bugti killing...many suggest that the government should offer balochistan teh next presidency as well...
  
• Dec8-2009--An american called daoud gilani who some say is related to yusuf raza gilani charged with planning of bombay attacks while visiting india and pakistan...india has remained dumb at evidence of outside involvement while only blaming pakistan... many suggest that teh US had evidence of teh attack which the indians refused to believe or take necessary precautions to prevent
  
• Dec8-2009--9 die in peshawar suicide attack while at least 45 killed in two attacks in lahore's iqbal town which also caused a plaza fire..a bomb also went off in quetta
  
• Dec8-2009--License of suspicious natured explosives manufacturer Biafo restored without assigning any reason for 58000 kg illegal shipments to balochistan
  
• Dec8-2009--13 member Fata legislators refuse to rejoin government unless Owais Ghani a military appointed governor is replaced...they had one minister and one minister of state
  
• Dec8-2009--eight militants killed in bajaur and 4 killed in swat
  
• Dec8-2009--strike in interior sindh against acquittal of murtaza bhutto murder accused...acquittal means that police acted correctly in a badly mishandled shooting at bhutto cavalcade..case has been in limbo since a long time and accused included mainly police officers including Shoaib Suddle(who got appointed to every position imaginable in the police service later on) and Masood Sharif(Ib chief) both considered PPP insiders....many think that Benazir or the sindh chief minister(both now dead) ordered the arrest of Murtaza and that he be brought to islamabad..Shoaib Suddle was mainly accused of irresponsibility and mismanagement as he apparently sat drinking tea and paid no heed to firing near his residence..despite evidence that the police posse took a negative precarious attitude of we refuse to let u thru...some said that some of the policemen involved were knocked out later by PPP(sb) men but no departmental action was apparently ever taken against the senior officers involved...There were also reports that Murtaza bhutto was killed on teh orders of the army for having a major killed in peshawar during an al zulfikar PIA plane hijacking during the zia ul haq times when teh bhutto brothers were in exile in kabul and who got a large number of PPP walas released and who were than transported to damascus...many relate teh present time terrorism to what happened in teh late seventies and early eighties...some even surmise that ossama ben laden has a striking resemblance to the younger bhutto son...
  
• Dec8-2009--protests in muzaffarabad as four men are whisked away to peshawar by the ISI...?
  
• Dec7-2009-- After meeting one mullah in karachi the interior minister says that all mullahs against terrorism...despite clear cut evidence that afghan prayer leaders and younger mullahs were literally involved in all sorts of terrorism ...the IJT, JI and JUIf have shown support and sympathy for the taleban and teh mqm has been constantly involved in an armed agitation against opponents in karachi