The Daily PakistanPolitics Mar22-23, 2010

• Mar23-2010--taleban factions reach a truce in Kurram after fierce fighting since Mar10 in which over 60 were killed..
  
• Mar23-2010--two killed in quetta blast
  
• Mar23-2010--government attempts a fresh move to stop SC from ordering reopening of Swiss cases by seeking a review..many say reopening of cases meaningless unless pakistani courts can give a clear verdict that the money was being laundered or was being paid as illegal commissions...zardari and benazir said that it was not their account...
  
• Mar23-2010--punjabi educationist shot dead in quetta
  
• Mar23-2010--karzai opens talks with hekmatyar
  
• Mar22-2010--ANP-PMLn at loggerheads over Nwfp name...PMLn thinks it should not be controversial...while ANP thinks PMLn is playing brinkmanship...anyway without the PMLn the 18th amendment maybe doomed..many say that Nawaz Sharif thought that Asif Zardari would be a Corazon Aquino...while others think that the SC might force Zardari out office..PPP thinking Of Fehmida Mirza unless she is an ahmedi as the next primeminister with possibly the controversial Gilani whose cousin Dawood Gilani is involved in the Bombay attacks as a lacklustre president...If the 18th amendment fails nawaz Sharif to jettyison PPP from punjab government
  
• Mar22-2010--iran says that pakistan not moving onits 1135 MW electricity offer..Iran which has been acting like a mean profiteering shopkeeper wants an expensive 7 cents per unit which would mean about 2 million dollars per day...many in pakistan think that since irans production cost is minimal it should not charge such huge profits...pakistan unwilling to fork over 700 million annually for electricity when we dont even get a powerhouse for it...with gas purchase and petroleum products purchases pakistan would have to pay iran billions every year with almost no iranian investment in pakistan ie apart from pushung sectarianism...
  
• Mar22-2010--a new larger turbine at tarbela would be almost a meaningless investment as it would at best be used for a few days...Pakistan should realize that with all the water being used for agriculture at a fast pace dams will not help much in energy generation on a huge scale...pakistan wants the US to fund its dams and possibly provide nuclear power stations...with most energy shortfalls in winter and early summer dams will in effect be useless for the purpose unless water is properly conserved over teh year
  
• Mar22-2010--28 militants in the remaining troublespots of Kurram and Orakzai killed in air attacks
  
• Mar22-2010--Four US spies killed in north waziristan
  
• Mar22-2010--five die in drone attack in north waziristan
  
• Mar22-2010--On quettas Quarry Road a cycle bomb killed two policemen and a shopkeeper