The Daily PakistanPolitics Apr 22-27, 2010

• Apr27-2010--five killed in drone attack
  
• Apr27-2010--three member top beaurocratic committe including a major general and two top beaurocrats to probe police bungling at benazir assassination...musharaf era MI chief tobe questioned
  
• Apr27-2010--SC urges government to review its expensive LNG contract...PPP literally going for more expensive contracts in everything overlooking cheaper options just as it wants all new electricity purchase agreements tobe over priced
  
• Apr27-2010--PPP refuses to withdraw 12 regular army soldiers sent to england for musharafs protection after it seems almost certain that the PMlq regime headed by musharaf to blame for Benazirs death...their sindh chief minister also in exile seemed to know exactly when the rally on benazirs arrival would end...Shaukat Aziz also in exile
  
• Apr26-2010--The dual natured MQM which is generally anti punjab and has killed punjabis in karachi and runs an unontrollable assassination machine in karachi wants punjab to think that it can change things here...the mqm has never supported any political stance of the punjab and one does not think that it can change rawalpindi into karachi with the nature of funds available here...it has held conventions in three punjab cities and can only attract the youth of mohajir families...mohajirs are a substantial part of most punjabi cities...both the PPP and PMLn think they can use them against each other
  
• Apr26-2010--pakistan asks india to sendover ajmal kasab for testimony against people it has arrested on indian instigations...? india has never been a really cooperative country and the pakistanis always keep hoping that one day it will turn into a responsible helpful neighbour...?
  
• Apr26-2010--the mqm which is part of this government in sindh and at the center says that it can solve the problems of punjab(quite laughable)...that it is unable to resolve while being in the government...in lahore it brought activists from karachi to control its convention and many say that punjabis must be quite stupid to even listen to altaf hussein ..he has been in each and every one of the past governments and has only created more problems rather than solutions...In the penniless punjab districts he can hardly even have the streets cleaned while sindh and karachi sit and eat the countries wealth
  
• Apr26-2010--three policemen killed in a militants attack on a checpost in chattar, nasirabad
  
• Apr26-2010--15 militants killed in orakzai as army prepares to mount an operation tootkhas, hangu
  
• Apr26-2010--NA 178 wide open as PPP's jamshed dasti in a fight with mustafa khar and PMLn supported nawabzada iftikhar
• Apr26-2010--In karachi the body of a policeman found in a gunny bag as political killings continue in karachi
  
• Apr25-2010--around thirty militants attacked and destroyed six nato tankers at a petrol station on the mianwali -talagang road setting on fire nearby shops and killing three policemen in a gunbattle...
  
• Apr25-2010--a three member high powered committee to probe why the hosing down of the benazir site was ordered possibly by than MI chief maj gen ijaz nadeem...
  
• Apr25-2010--five SC judges to hear pleas against the 18th amendment which can be struck down easily by the Sc despite the CJ refusing to interfere in the work of other institutions...many aspects of the amendment are against the spirit of the 1973 constitution
  
• Apr25-2010--while peace in the FATA and nwfp area is yet tobe achieved the US is very interested in a fata trade zone which would have difficulties in surviving a few years given the areas situation and location...even in peace time people could not freely travel in the areas associated with fata
  
• Apr25-2010--nine kileld in north waziristan drone attack
  
• Apr25-2010--four militants killed in orakzai
  
• Apr24-2010--SC exempts Nusrat Bhutto from appearing before an accountability court
  
• Apr24-2010--oficer, six troops die in anambush in dattakhel north waziristan..six vehicles destroyed
  
• Apr24-2010--government shifts to a five day mode with saturday and sunday off
  
• Apr24-2010--Government after two and half years in power initiates a suspect, dubious and supicious natured load shedding policy as in summer months which are almost upon us the water fills dams and creates more electricity...that usually lasts about three months and in winter the load shedding restarts...PPP government hell bent on creating problems for the people and can almost be said tobe the most dhoka baz government after musharaf...earlier they had said that load shedding would end in dec 2009...?
  
• Apr24-2010--CJ takes suo moto notice of summons to nusrat bhutto by accountability court
  
• Apr24-2010--20 militants killed in Orakzai
  
• Apr23-2010--After two and a half years in power government announces a load shedding policy...earlier they had announced the end of load shedding by dec 2009...in summer months hydel generation usually decreases load shedding anyway and restarts in winter...if they had filled mangla by end April problems would already have been solved...most of the country needs electricity and the governments dolly dallying and price hikes have been a complete failure...since there is no electricity government should stop giving new connections and stop building lavish commercial areas, luxury housing colonies and needless industrialization...domestic users are almost totally fed up and will show their anger at the next polls whether by elections or local bodies
  
• Apr23-2010-CJ takes suo moto notice of summons to Nusrat Bhutto..not many suo moto notices have been issued by this Court in recent times...not even whimper on all the whoopla in the Benazir assassination...!!
  
• Apr23-2010-20 militants killed in Orakzai
  
• Apr23-2010-PPP's fake degree walas nazir Jutt and allah Wasaya barred from participating in elections for PP-259 and Na-167 by the LHC even though education qualification has been removed
  
• Apr23-2010-militants blow up mazaar in bara
  
• Apr22-2010-Accountability court summons Nusrat Bhutto to appear in person or send relative
• Apr22-2010--Farmhouse size cut to 4 kanals from 12/20 in islamabads zone four where the high and mighty have turned a supposed orchard and vegetable farm area into a haphazard farmhouse construction..one wonders what portion of a 4 canal farmhouse will be the farm...