The Daily Pakistanpolitics May15-19, 2010

• May19-2010--governments policies on education have little to do with reality...The country is not in the seventies when there was a lack of educational institutions...instead of stuffing more universities into karachi and islamabad the country should improve standards in school education and only setup universities in any areas that might have been deprived...nobody is deprived of education nowadays because of a lack of facilities apart from some rural and remote areas...government should encourage improvements in teh school system thru technology inputs and teaching improvements....infrastructure improvements in rural areas is the main necessity
  
• May19-2010--The chinese say that their railway locomotives are performing satisfactorily and that they won a bid for 75 locomotives for $105 million whuile GM/marubeni bid was $227 million...many suggest that marubeni representatives had factored in 100% as kickbacks...?Government now wants to buy GE railway engines which are 150% costlier while it is thought that the sales agents of GE engines will have offered substantial kickbacks...it is literally taking from the country to enrich a few influentials...
  
• May19-2010--Iran involved in knife attack on pakistani ambassador say newspaper reports
  
• May19-2010--pro taleban anchor hamid mir embroiled in controversy to kill khalid khawaja after telephone call conversation emerges...Taleban say PTCL recording telephone conversations
  
• May19-2010--Ogra after raising gas prices by around a 1000% over two years now wants them reduced by a paltry 2.5%
  
• May19-2010--rehman malik gets pre arrest bail in two cases from SHC...accused of receiving two two toyota corollas as rishwat..looting a house and a passenger..?...In FIA since his days even ordinary cops travel around in toyota corollas and makeup stories about who they have been trailing
  
• May19-2010--DSP and twelve others killed in a bicycle bomb blast in DI Khan
  
• May18-2010--In another twist to the victimisation-NRO-corruption saga that has bedeviled pakistan asif zardari pardons rehman malik under article 45 as the LHC rules incorrectly that sentencing in absentia is justified...is this an admission of guilt or does the PPP's isolated president think that he cant do without a rehman malik...many rumours suggest that rehman malik may have given teh Benazir execution orders and his behaviour on the assassination day was at best strange...he is rumoured tobe asif zardaris brother in law...? PPP using its governance to establish and benefit brothers , sons, wifes, sisters, husbands and in laws...it is now almost certain that asif zardari and other PPP top leaders acted to preserve their personal interests as benazir was executed or eliminated!!
  
• May18-2010--In another judiciary-executive tussle case LHC summons asif zardari explanation on whether he thinks holding a simultaneous non governmental political position as PPP co chairperson is dubious or illegal...primeminister too holds a party position but has not been challenged...law ministry says that he can only not hold a position of profit in the service of pakistan...sindh chief minister also holds a party position
  
• May18-2010--47 militants killed in orakzai clashes..two soldiers killed
  
• May18-2010--many suggest that the PPP hand over economic governance to the IMF and political governance to teh judiciary as its major economic policies such as VAT, electricity tariffs, BISP, poverty reduction etc...are being carried out on their orders...now they have also ordered bank mergers...how poverty alleviation and inflation reduction can take place under persistent price hikes is only known to the IMF/WB and teh countries dubious economic advisors
  
• May17-2010--32 taleban killed in Orakzai in air strikes, clashes
  
• May17-2010--government plans to form a CCRC to review miscarriages of justice...one hopes that it is not on the pattern of corruption pardons because the president can easily use article 47 to clear zulfikar ali bhutto too...
  
• May17-2010--militants release 40 of 60 kidnapped on saturday from buses in Kurram agency
  
• May17-2010--to project higher growth government revises growth downward in last two years...?
  
• May17-2010--pukhtun arrested in chile released despite explosive traces on his person and apartment
  
• May17-2010--Yusuf Raza Gilani attempts to suggest that he is responsible for jamshed dastis upset win in muzzafargarh even though he worked tooth and nail to get his nomination rejected ..maybe he is also responsible for the defeat of teh punjab PPP president in faisalabad
  
• May17-2010--Yusuf Raza Gilani who is for and against the NRo wants musharaf repatriated on court orders despite sending him overseas himself...another case in the courts wants politicians and generals to bring back foreign assetts...foreign assetts under present laws are legal and only can be forcibly retrieved if a specific case states that the money is corruption proceeds or illegal gratification or money laundering
  
• May16-2010--militants attack convoy from peshawar to parachinar and kidnap 37 passengers near a security checpost
  
• May16-2010--There has been an apparent US drone strike in khyber agency...with at least 13 killed
  
• May16-2010--The PPP wins two NA seats in muzzafargarh and vehari while losing two punjab assembly seats...particularly defining was the PPP punjab presidents defeat a zardari protege
  
• May16-2010--According to reports balochistan CM has had bulldozed the houses of Mir Baz Khetran a PPP supporter
  
• May16-2010--SC studies how to rule on illegal construction inside the countries parks fostered by the musharaf regime
  
• May16-2010--As the countries bad economic management continues by further piling up of foreign loans at least $5 billion are expected to be paid in debt servicing this year