The Daily PakistanPolitics Mar12-17, 2010

• Mar17-2010--As echos of shabaz sharifs attempted appeasement of the taleban was ridiculed by the army chief the national assembly went up in flames on another sharifs(LHC CJ) suggestion that hindus were behind the terrorism in punjab although many suggest that zardari led sindhis were behind much of the terrorism to get economic benefits beyond their normal rights..shabaz sharif many say told the army chief since u are unable to solve the issue let us at least try the appeasement route that we are using with sindhis..he also suggested that the army, government and provincial governments had literally refused to consult or even talk about the terrorism issue to each other as if being blind to the issue or frightened..hindus are known for cycle bombs...if muslims can be blamed than so can hindus...the pakistani government also signed the expensive iranian gas agreement after acting many say as a lynchman of an iranian dissident as well as the economic rights of the pakistani citizenry......After much economic terrorism zardari signs NFC after three months in which punjabs cash is doled out to other provinces as teh government unleashes non development in the countries major towns barring of course multan...as lahore police discover stores of ammonia nitrate for truck bombs...as taleban and LJ shift focus and start to increasingly terrorize the punjab...
  
• Mar17-2010--with pakistans poor and ineffective management of energy resources not many expect the iran gas pipeline tobe of any effect since by teh time it comes online needs will have quadrupled and shortages at the moment are more than the pipelines capacity with iran also facing winter shortages...iran literally blackmailed pakistan in handing over an iranian dissident for lynching before going ahead with the project...the iranian gas price and its construction cost will also be paid by the people of pakistan since the indian component is not part of the deal...many suggest that the zardari regimes refusal to negotiate price concessions will cost the pakistanis dearly...
  
• Mar17-2010--The army chief has taken over zardari and the foreign ministers job by chairing a meeting of six federal secretaries to eke out a strategic policy towards the uSA...not much change has been noticed in american attitudes or pakistans in their policies since the nineteen fifties...many suggest pakistans policy is one of desperation...wanting aid, military equipment, non interference and some say also trade and friendship as well...
  
• Mar17-2010--The jhelum kid kidnapped they say by an international conspiracy of gujeratis found at a petrol pump...
  
• Mar17-2010--Drone kills ten in north waziristan
  
• Mar17-2010--sindhs hafeez sheikh who worked for the previous dictator tipped tobe the next economic czar..many suggest that the PPP's paucity in expertise has been severely exposed by outside experts who start building their own empires while in the job as there is no one to question their authority or policy...the last czar spent his time building a new bank with UN funds...government should devize economic policy and not leave it to the whims of individuals...or the IMF and the WB
  
• Mar17-2010--woman dies in karachi blast
  
• Mar17-2010--policeman killed in balochistan as nato tanker comes under fire
  
• Mar17-2010--in kurram ten militants killed in clash with local lashkar
  
• Mar16-2010--In what any say is the sharifs appeasement nature shabaz sharif suggests that the taleban spare punjab assuming that their fight is not with them...the army chief adopting a US type policy expressed his severe distress at the statement...many say since the federation and army is doing little to avert terrorism in punjab teh attitude could be justified...since the federal government has not even a role in anti terror policy and other provinces fight terrorism on their own levels..so a seperate punjab policy can be justified...
  
• Mar16-2010--Tarbela hits dead level as sindh over exploits river water
  
• Mar16-2010--ammonium nitrate caches found in lahore used in making truck bombs but which is essentially a fertiliser
  
• Mar16-2010--protestors torch six buses in lahore protest at being stopped from plying their vehicles without permit on the ferozepur road
  
• Mar16-2010--grenade attacks in Hub and quetta kill one
  
• Mar16-2010--Unknown Dr Shamma Khalid tipped for governor of gilgit baltistan an unconstitutional pakistani province
  
  
• Mar15-2010--Shabaz Sharif suggesting common goals of opposition to musharafs terrorist policies and outside interference suggests that the taleban not single out punjab for their terrorist attacks which seem indian orchestrated
  
• Mar15-2010--13 militants killed in orakzai as military targets hideouts and camps
  
• Mar15-2010--as taleban activities are supposed tobe winding down the pakistan army and government sending top officials to washington for strategic consultation to see if US development aid can be effectively utilized to solve pakistans dangerously tilted economy in which the populace is totally being degraded and whether teh US is ready for a major pakistani role in the region...many say the indians are closer to the US heart and most pakistani demands are effectively blocked by new delhis orchestration
  
• Mar15-2010--despite there being clear evidence that high fuel costs are endangering the economy the government refuses to provide real tax relief in the energy fields and is bent upon minor tinkering to benefit areas like karachi by eliminating the freight margins on crude oil shipments and tanker distribution from depots to pumps..
  
• Mar15-2010--nato oil tanker attacked in balochistan
  
• Mar15-2010--Pmln wants nwfp to have a non controversial name favouring abaseen, afghania as compared to the ANP's preference for pukhtunkhwa....many suggest a referendum on the issue while others prefer Khyber...Pukhtunkhwa is opposed by muslim leaguers as it is close to the bogey of pukhtunistan raised by earlier versions of the ANP in which pukhtun areas were to be be an independent state sponsored by earlier afghan governments..however as afghanistan colapsed into civil war the nwfp lost interest in a pukhtun nation and moved closer to the pakistani identity...pukhtuns are mostly immigrants from afghanistan and beyond who have shifted here over the last three to four centuries and earlier...
  
• Mar15-2010--maulvi obaidullah from kohistan is the richest nwfp mpa with a wealth of over Rs4 billion and PPP's mpa prince javed the poorest
  
• Mar14-2010--thirteen killed in a suicide attack on a security checpost in mingora
  
• Mar14-2010--Baizai tehsil peace body chief shot dead with two others near peshawar
  
• Mar14-2010--The NA 's PAC critisizes the gas bill tariffs in which two different measurements are used to calculate confusing prices which have been raised to almost international levels when the gas is locally produced...SNGPL's methods obviously wrong as they receive 700 daily complaints to SSGC's 20...?
  
• Mar14-2010--Moonis Elahi says that punjabs sharif brothers have long history of trading punjabs interests for personal gain
  
• Mar13-2010--50 including eight soldiers killed in two lahore suicide blasts in cantonment...as several small blasts hit allama iqbal town and samanabad
  
• Mar13-2010--Pakistans PCB backs out of totally revamping its 20-20 team and only slightly alters lineup with oldtimers misbah, hafeez and yasser....hammad azam with one good performance in the under 19 world cup also makes it to the final fifteen...batting will depend heavily on problematic players like afridi, umer akmal and kamran akmal...razzak, misbah, salaman butt, khalid lateef , fawad alam, hammad will have to perform too..allrounders and bowlers teams strength with batting pakistans current weakness