The Daily Pakistanpolitics feb2-jan31, 2010

• Feb2-2010--COAS kayani issues terms for regional stability...says (1)does not want afghan army to have F-16's meaning they should not be able to challenge us militarily (2)wants strategic depth in afghanistan but no control(not understandable)...which he says means a friendly and peaceful afghanistan...willing to engage by training afghan army...indian involvement in afghanistan should be minimized..says cross border attacks into afghanistan have declined..says they have lost 2273 men in tribal area cleansing which has been mostly accomplished...operations to continue whereever required
  
• Feb2-2010--military operations in bajaur kill another 22 militants..several areas attacked
  
• Feb2-2010--Efforts underway to identify reconcilable taleban say sources in islamabad..pakistan regards itself as sufficiently influential enough to lead teh way while teh pro indian afghans prefer saudi arabia..while the hawkish indians look for ways to undermine pakistan
  
• Feb2-2010--nato oil tanker blownup near peshawar
  
• Feb2-2010--another seven shot dead in karachis qasba/orangi colony violence as death toll climbs to 23
  
• Feb2-2010--PPP pulls out of the NA55 election after the mansehra debacle..PPP role dubious on which side it is supporting in rawalpindi
  
• Feb2-2010--Shahid Afridi caught biting the ball in the last one dayer against australia...pakistan lose a one day series 5-0 for the first time after 1988...a third person shoaib malik to captain in australia after mohammed yusuf and shahid afridi
  
• Feb1-2010--PPP regime hikes petrol price to Rs71
  
• Feb1-2010--army gains control of taleban headquarters in bajaur area killing 21
  
• Feb1-2010--The US plans to take advantage of shifting tribal and taleban loyalties amid some sort of easing on talks and buying loyalties
  
• Feb1-2010--government seems adamant on insisting on rental power plants despite high cost and no reasonable chance of eliminating supply shortfalls
  
• Feb1-2010--6 killed in qasba colony violence in karachi
  
• Feb1-2010-- government says 119 high profile terrorists still at large
  
• Feb1-2010--girls school bombed in bannu
  
• Feb1-2010--Punjab chief secretary under suspicion in the hit and run of a military retired official sent on leave
  
• Feb1-2010--Nawaz Sharif backing out of elections in NA-123
  
• Feb1-2010--two security personnel die in blast in mohmand agency
  
  
• Jan31-2010--Gilani refuses to reopen swiss cases which requires a judgement in pakistan that Asif Zardari was at the minimum involved in money laundering...generally asif zardari can seek immunity against any new cases but would at best have to deal with any previous cases after he leaves office
  
• Jan31-2010--17 killed in a burqa clad suicide blast at a checpoint in the main bazaar khar in bajaur agency
  
• Jan31-2010--india which has barely any dealings or threat from the afghan taleban comes out with a hawkish stand of going along with a new softening posture of the western alliance which sees the taleban as willing to integrate as their expectations of power are gradually diminished
  
• Jan31-2010--eight killed in karachis qasba colony violence
  
• Jan31-2010--Hillary Clinton says Mullah Omar has not invited her to dinner and the talks about taleban integration are merely at the policy stage as Taleban deny having met UN official in dubai
  
• Jan31-2010--drone attack kills nine in north waziristan
  
• Jan31-2010--Shabaz sharif offers fully funded scholarships to 100 Lums/Fast university students which are elite institutions as his Daanish schools scheme is squeezed from 15 to three schools...many thought that daanish(danish is a pastry) was from Denmark...he says it is for poor brilliant students and three are being built in south punjab...with the federal government literally crushing the poor with price hikes many doubt that any poor will have the resources for such schools...he does not understand why his extremely costly 1 billion cost per school are being critisized when nobody objects to cadet colleges...why select schools in all districts could not be upgraded is difficult for many to understand..so it is obviously corruption associated with huge money projects..are'nt three schools enough for the provinces brilliant poor!!there are'nt too many of them really...good education is only affordable to the upper middle classes even at the lower level...
  
• Jan31-2010--shabaz sharif avoids removing illegal five storey rana sanaullah plaza on fane road which used tobe a small road to one side of the High Court
  
• Jan31-2010--Liaqat jatoi says power load sheddings deliberate to trouble the people and get them to support higher cost power plants
  
• Jan31-2010--while the senior cricket team was persuadably a poor shadow of its past the under 19 australian team also downed our under 19 kids in the final who could not deal with the bowling changes and field placements